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Right before nationals this year, I started noticing our team number (217) in everyday places. For example, gas prices dropped to right about $2.17 everywhere around my house just about a week before nats.

Where have you seen your team number (or any other ones, for that matter) in places where you wouldn't expect it? Post any good (humorous or entertaining) pictures, please.

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Whenever 116 appears anywhere, someone on our team notices and its quite amusing. Locker number 116, room number 116, receipt number 116, ect. ect. ect.
I also have started noticing other team numbers too. Like room 233, and 2:33, whenever I see those, I "Think Pink" (pun fully intended). When I see 6:23 on a clock I think about Oakton High School. ect. ect. ect.

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There is a sign in our county that says Route 616 and an arrow pointing to Courtland. So we basically have 616 leading to Courtland in more than one way ;)

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Whenever I drive to the Philly regional, I always park in spot #365. In fact, there are a bunch of MOE stickers on that spot even today!

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I can't WAIT for gas prices to drop to our team's number!! :)

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:eek: $93 gas! Oh god! :rolleyes: ;)

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I know exactly what all of you are talking about.
Every time i look at my watch and see 3:65 o'clock I always thing, darn i gotta get a new watch...

But seriously i see FIRST team numbers everywhere and it always makes me happy to think of the teams and the people.

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From rt 78 the exit to Watchung is 41...next year id like to incorporate that into a pin or sticker or something like that.

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CD users will be excited to know I am joining out local Fire Department, Station 47 when I am 18 :)

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I was in the middle of a team meeting and looked at the clock and said "ok it's PAW right now..." and got blank looks from my kids until I realized what I had done. Oh dear...

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I notice other team numbers much more than my own. It was not a good feeling to see "233" on gas station signs. When I come back from Stuart FL to see my SPAM friends I have to get off on exit 180 to go home. Weird stuff.

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I always seem to look at the clock whenever it says 11:23. It's sad because that's my boyfriend's team and I really miss him. >_<;

But yeah. There's an exit on the beltway numbered 7. I always laugh when I see it, and people look at me funny when I laugh saying "haha...7...xD" It's like..."Dori, are you okay!?" xD Oh, what FIRST does to me.

Also there's an exit 1 here...and I usually can relate a team number to SOMETHING...

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I also notice other numbers, since it's a pain in the butt to find anything that's $12.93 or the like.

However, I have a story from my days as a Piggly Wiggly cashier. If you don't know, Piggly Wiggly does Greenbax, which is a rewards program. If you buy certain items, it'll let you use Greenbax books stored on your PFC card (as you earn them by using your PFC card) and get it for free (just pay tax). (If you're wondering why the unit is a book, it's because back in the old days customers literally filled books with Greenbax stamps they got at the store, then brought them in. They're still valid, too.)

One night, our coach's wife came through my line, so I was ringing things up. I hit the total button, and the Greenbax dialog came up. Her balance at the time, I kid you not, was 12.93 books.

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I went to Carl's Jr. yesterday and after waiting in a long line of people it just so happened I was order # 696. The funny thing is that this has happened twice at that location.

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It's kinda hard to find things of my team number (11) but i do notice other teams like every time i look at my watch it seems to be a team number. If i'm driving down the interstate and notice it's a FIRST team I smile.

Being on a FIRST team was the greatest four years of my life. So great in fact that I now volunteer so others can make FIRST the greatest four years of their life.

PS This was my 233rd post...go PINK

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There have been many days where the last time I've checked the clock it was either 2:54am or 2:58am. I've also had the misfortune of paying at least $2.58 per gallon of gas (the cheap stuff) VERY often. That's one of the few drawbacks of living in California... we get screwed on gas and utilities.

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That reminds me. I always look at the clock everyday at 6:48. Also, our old number, 309, just happens to be our area code! It's too bad we dont have that number anymore. Everytime I do a math problem I try and think of the team that that answer is.

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One Saturday during build season, a couple of members from our robotics team went out to Friendlies for lunch. Someone's bill came out to be $14.03. Coincidence, I think not...

Also, the locker adjacent to our Industrial Arts room is locker number 1403.

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Actually on our way to the Georgia Dome, my team and I saw a Sewer grate with 1708 on it.... although it turned out to 170B since the next sewer said 170A ... it still brought up the teams moral on the first day of pit opening.... cus we had alotta work to do!

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My team number isn't easy to find(1629), but I admit I've jumped the few times I've seen it...

I have seen other teams' numbers and automatically said the name. A month ago or so someone asked me how many days there were in a year, and I said MOE...I've seen several gas station signs saying the price of gas was $2.22(go Tigertrons!)...and in military time, 4:29 is our time...

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HOLY COW! Prices came down to that here also...for SUPER unleaded...regular stayed at about 2.20. I also found myself looking at mile markers on the way to ATL and trying to figure out their team name.

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Yeah regular is back up to 2.20 for us now. Gotta love Michigan.

Dang, sorry I guess this has been done. I tried searching but its hard to search "team numbers" or anything similar without getting tons of results to sort. Not to mention, that thread is over a year old. :D

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If you get a single thing of french fries at In-N-Out, it comes out to $1.14 with tax. A member of our team noticed this when we stopped for food on the way home from the sacramento regional.

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My team was pretty surprised to discover the location of the Midwest Regional was 525 South Racine.. we thought maybe it would help us win or something, but alas, no luck :( ah well, there's always another year :)

heh, I also got .0525 for the answer to a problem in either my chem or math homework yesterday.. that's always exciting :D

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For some reason I always notice when the clock says 8:36. no matter if its day or night. I just happen to look at the clock or my watch and it just happens to be 8:36. Strange?. . .

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On the drive down to Atlanta I saw a couple signs with prices of $13.05 and we also happened to enter exit (heh) 229. No matter how long I wait though, the time is never 7:72 :(.

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One time our match was scheduled to be at 10:06..........Freaky......

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In a bizarro moment, I was thinking about the same thing today! And it's rather funny because I gave a small presentation to my department on what we did over the weekend and I was talking about team numbers (they asked what 1089 meant), and another teacher that came with me found it hilarious that I saw 254 on a street mailbox sign and immediately thought Cheesy Poofs.

The most bizarre moment for me, though, was buying something I wanted from target having a price tagl of 10.89

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I have started seeing team numbers everywhere lately. Mostly in questions in Chemistry and Math Analysis. Since we started getting ready for Atlanta and doing more scouting (learning more team names and numbers in the process) I catch myself trying to associate the time with teams.

Plus my alarm clock is set for 6:16 - it makes me a little happier to wake up early.

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We are always in a team meeting at 3:41 so that is cool. But on the way down to the philly regional we pass exit 341. And on rare occasions during the daily run to wawa during build season we have totals that come to 3.41 which is awesome!

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i see 233 on a regular basis... for gas prices. >.< its amusing to see but it does hurt my wallet when i've got to go to the pump. and i too have been associating team numbers with time and money and such... the price for a bottle of Bawls at the 7-11 near my house is $1.79, so natually i figured "hey look! Children of the Swamp!" and i got mad at a friend of mine who started to take the price tag off. lol i did the "there are MOE days in a year" thing too a few days ago... ^^;

edit/ last year, my locker number was 233... ^_^ my goal is every year to get a locker number associated with a FIRST team... :)

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VCU was pretty interesting. We had a win-loss record of 4-0-1 after the first day, and at the team social, we were heading up to the fourth floor classroom to eat: room 401.

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Not exactly a team number, but did anybody notice the skyscraper with the big blue and white GP sign on it? I think FIRST is trying to go sublimnal. (Saw it at the "party")

Also, on an unrelated note, did anybody recieve a email from Bob Hughes Photography? The entire photography subteam on my team did...

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I work as a cashier in a grocery store so when the final total comes up I always think ok whos number is this, I have now made it into a little game I play. One time I was checking this lady out and my team number popped up and I said Yes Team Fusion baby, the lady kinda looked at me wierd so now i say the team name in my head when the number comes up.

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We paid $ 1 305 for our tickets to the wrap-up party for the Championship.

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I wish I had a camera for the day that I saw low grade gas at $2.17 and midgrade at $2.29 near me :) Thunderchickens + Clarkson = high gas prices! lol.

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Monday April 26, I was order #269 at Taco Bell.

I sure hope that I don't see that as a gas price in the near future. :ahh:

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I am so glad there are other people out there like me! My family thought I was weird when I would hear town names or team numbers and I would automaticly associate them with a FIRST team and start rambling off every thing I know about the team.

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I made a video for team 97 that turned out to be exactly 5 minutes and 27 seconds in length by coincidence. A member from my HS Team (527) pointed this out to me. So when I actually did 527's video, I made it 5:27 also, this time on purpose.

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Ha, yesterday I went to Taco Bell with some friends, and our total was $12.59 (my brother's team!) ... later, I was looking at gas prices and noticed it dropped to $2.34 to $2.29 ... and a girl down the hall mentioned she was moving to room #365 next semester.

We are all very strange (but fun!) people. ;)

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Wow, our gas prices are more around $2.69, go Cali. I'm always seeing other team's numbers, and mine a few times. I always seem to be order number 294 at resturants, too. And earlier today, my mom was playing a poker tournament and she had 1110 in chips.

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Whenever I see almost any number to four digits long I think of the team with that number, their name, what they wore, etc..
Its almost the only thing where numbers have any significance, so I just see the teams numbers when reading books, when looking at the time, when seeing measurements, you name a place you see a number and I've thought of a team there :o.

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Now that you mention it...

The school our team represents (Saginaw Career Complex) starts at 7:03. Hah, I never noticed until now.

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I work at a dollar tree, so when someone buys 3 items the total comes to 3.21 (7% sales tax) so when someone pays with 4 dollars (or more commonly a 5 dollar bill,) my register shows the change as .79 or 1.79 both make me smile.

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Ah yes and I just remembered that at BAE the fire alarm went off and everyone had to be evactuated at precisely 5:01 PM by the arena clock, just as the Chairman's Awards winner, Team 501, was announced.

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Teams in our division at nationals......85
Interstate that runs through Atlanta....... I 85

I see them all the time. You just can't get FIRST off the brain.

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This morning I was playing with my phone and checked how many total calls I have ever made on it.........and I had had 1114 calls!

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I set my alarm for 7:59 instead of 8pm...
i also know someone who had a phillip 759 phone (i think it was called that)
i also once saw a uboat 759 on a submarine game....

[offtopic]
What is that price of gas per? gallon?
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In the U.S. the price of gas is per gallon and in Canada, the price of gas is per litre.

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On the way to my teaching job at my new school I pass bus number 103 nearly every morning. I also get to see Exit 341 on the Schuylkill Expressway frequently.

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ok so...weird one
there were 341 teams at nationals.....
weird....
i see it on the clock all the time too
o...and when i was in the airport coming back from nationals, a bught a soda and a soft prezel and it came out to $3.65
hahaha nice job mr. kressly....i see that all the time too...whenever we come back from drexel we always try and remember to take a pic, but we have only remembered once....
NICE JOB EVERYONE AT NAT'S!!!!

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I wake up at 6:39 AM every morning, but thats no coincidence.

My refrigerator outputs 639 watts.

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yesterday i was walking around Target and noticed Cheeze its where on sale for $2.54 that definately made me think of the cheesy poofs, and i hear the new star wars movie is goin to be 2 hours and 37 minutes long def though of 237 when i heard that lol.

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i walk past buses 71 and 111 every day almost. My wake-up time is 5:30. I get out of school at 2:33 My monitor brightness is at 66 right now. I have a jar on my windowsill with 469 pennies in it. Need i say more?

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yea.. whenever i find a house thats adress is 1596.. i laugh. . and ppl give me strange looks.. so its funnier :D. . hehe. .

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This is kind of neat... the exit you take to get off of US-23 (on of the main freeways near us) is "Exit 67 - Huron". Thats the only one I've ever really noticed...

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i usually do this in math class...i dunno why but when solving equation and i see one of my favorite team's number- i smile :)

it's really cool!! whenever and whereever i am, i hunt for my favorite teams numbers

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I forgot to bring my history book to school today, so I just pulled one out of the stack in the classroom: book #401. That's just weird.

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My old high school team number is 447. Recently, while coming back to Vincennes from Evansville, I stopped at a Pilot truck stop for gas in Princeton, Indiana, and the station number was 447. :cool:
The Pilot by my house in Chesterfield, Indiana, is 446.

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For us I hope to never see gas prices go up to $3.30!!! even though its about $3.07 here now..(yes thats ridiculous)....
Ummmm....
My friend on the team got order #330 at McDonald's right after a pre-season scrimmage...
At the beginning or my friends rookie year on the team he kept mistaking our team number 330 for 303.... this happened many times though the season, so we decided to make him remember our team name by force :D ...
anytime he said 303 in stead of 330 all the students walked over and gave him a light punch on the same arm....
So after a few weeks we here him so "Well its 3:03" and all of the sudden everyone walks over and hits him and he goes "OWWW I WAS READING THE TIME!!!" then everyone just starts busting up laughing..(Of course not him though) ...
ahhh good times goooood times

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At nationals, we had a schedualed match for 3:30 PM. We won it too :D

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Today, I was in keyboarding class, and I had to type page 179 and the first thing that popped into my head...SWAMP THING! Yeah I'm kinda memorizing all these numbers and associating them with my everyday life.

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Today I finished a calculus test at 11:14. Now is that good for me, or bad for me? :)

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I looked in my closet this morning and saw 116 on the sleeve of several shirts! :D
strange eh? :rolleyes: :p

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Ya, I was playing this game on my calculator during math class (yes I know, bad), but i set the new high score on this snake like game to 1138. It was very cool. Whenever the time is 11:38, I always point that out to someone on the team and they think that's pretty cool. And hey, look at the time of this post, 11:38 PM

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anyone seen an 1167 anywhere? or for that matter, anybody use military time and see 1440? 1180 sounds good too, just not for time

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Down by the coast we got the Nautilus submarine (571) and there was also the movie that came out U-571

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JosephM from Sparky (384) started the "What's the coolest thing a team can give out?" thread - and look how many replies it has...

--Had to shrink the file so it would attach...

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My dates prom ticket number is 233, Think Pink is everwhere.

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Ok and I thought I was noticing team numbers in 1 too many places... thats just sick

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At the Championship we were queing for one of our matches and the digital clock in the Geogia Dome was at 10:27, we won the match too.

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You wouldn't really see 1546 anywhere, but I'm waiting for team 1776. That team will have no problem finding their name and theme.

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The last AP Calc assignment that I had before Championships was on page 573..

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Don't start me on this.... is what my team would say. I have a full 1 hour powerpoint presentation on the number 47.

Go to Yahoo and search 47.... interesting.

Just a quick one..... Star Trek the next generation has the number 47 in every episode, Pomona college has a curriculum dedicated to the number 47, the college is located on exit 47....... I could go on and on.

Last one.. my plate on my van is CD47, all my phone numbers end in 47 and we won the chairman's award when I was 47 years old.

Need more pm me.

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yea, my team number doesn't come up too often, #1, but when i was at a pistons game, i saw so many team numbers appear. my girlfriend and i were joking around with it as each score changed. also on exit signs on the free way. i live right by an exit 71, one I'm familiar with.

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When I was getting off my bus today, I saw another bus go by...it was number 71...

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I'm used to wake up at 11:56 :D

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I think it is awesome to see team numbers in ordinary places. One of our mentors, Mr.Scherman, saw a propane tank (I think that's what it was) that had the number 1108 on it, so he took like five pictures. I don't happen to have them on my computer right now, so I can't post them. It is also funny when when it gets to be 11:08, I'll say something like, "Oh yeah, it's 11:08, that is so awesome!", and all the non-FIRSTers around me think I'm crazy. I love it.

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I don't think this is an everyday place but I just got done playing some poker and on the flop came an 8 3 6, however it didn't help me much. LOL

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At champs there was an upscale hotel that we would always walk by. It had large text, "One-Ninety-One Peachtree Avenue" engraved in metal.

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On my satellite T.V., G4 TechTv is 191, and an address by me is 494. Premium gas at a gas station was 2.45. That and today on the way home from my grandmother's i was looking for licenses plates with team numbers. I saw three that had 67 on them. My soccer number is 33.

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Last night the pick 3 numbers were 067.

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I was surfing CD when something caught my eye:

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for the bond proposal here in Pontiac here is some of the votes:

PONTIAC SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPOSAL
VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN 1
(WITH 2 OF 48 PRECINCTS COUNTED 4.17%)
YES146.83%NO19193.17%
team 191 ha ha ha

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I got my prom ticket today it is number 467, I immediately thought Duct Tape Bandits.

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Let's see...

When Team 1100 went to the Hartford Regional, I had the interesting luck of being placed in room #811 in the hotel. This was the team I'd been with prior to 1100. The faculty advisor swears he didn't do it on purpose.

Yeah, right.

:)

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On the door to our normal meeting place, there is a city ordinance posted: city Ordinance 217...weird...

Also, one of the conference rooms at our place is room 2117, not our team exactly, but pretty close.

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I live in a neighborhood with crazy numbers lol.

-168th street is like the police department and close by to my school
-there's like 173rd, 175th, and 180th streets and the street i live on is 179th! (maybe i should name them "Rage street" "buzz street" "spam street" but what about 179th street lol "swamp street" or something else)
-I saw a gas station with the price for regular gas at 2.33
-some of my cousin's liscense plates have 47 and 71 in them!
-um in bowling I bowled a 168, 111, 147, 173 (yea strange!)
-my prom ticket was 114 O_O and my waiting ticket to get that prom ticket was number 20

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I'm sure most peple have seen the shirts, jackets, ect. that have random numbers on them. This guy in one of my classes has a jacket that says 686 on the back.. it makes me happy everytime he wears it :)

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I just got to my cousin's apartment in San Jose and on the way up I passed by apartment numbers 222 and 217 and he lives in apartment number 215.

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Ive been seeing the number 111 a lot recently... a friend's apartment number, lots of stuff. A flight a friend was on... oooh and a bus number. There are others.. I should start writing them down. Its probably a conspiracy.. those Wildstang guys are up to something...

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License plates (unless vanity plates) for cars are 1 digit followed by 3 letters followed by 3 numbers in CA. I've seen a few 599's, including one that parks in the same lot on the college campus as myself. I've also noticed a 696 around.

1070 is also one of the major talk radio stations in the area. (I figure I can always cheat and use the initial digit on license plates, although the 1's were given out to cars back in the 80's.)

indieFan

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Me and some the other people who have been on our team for a while always notice when its 5:14 at night. One morning a few days before we were leaving for atlanta when my friend called me just to tell me that it was 51.4 degrees outside. I think the weirdest time I've seen our team number randomly was in the airport while we were waiting for our flight to atlanta. Everyone on our team was like hanging in one corner area and on an information board on the wall was a sticker that said 514...we all thought it was pretty cool.

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On the simpsons Lisa was in a compition and was wearing a bib with number 65 on it.

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i got a new bank account a few weeks before pittsburgh, and it had 357 in it... three times!

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Every year on our way to the Philly Regional we pass EXIT 341 on the expressway. its the last exit before getting off for Drexel U. Everyone on the bus lets out a cheer. The best part is that we are local, so we get to do it for all three days of the comp. :D

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I see a lot of 254's these days.

When I am converting centimeters to inches or visa versa, it is 2.54. Yeah it does have the decimal, but I always say to myself in my mind, "The Cheeeesssy Poooofs" in that authentic announcer voice. I really liked their robot this year. It was very effective. Go guys!

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My adress is 245 and that is also my team #