The Number Game

1:31 am EST May 13th, 2007 | Politics | 11 Comments

What provokes this weird numbering scheme? It isn’t left or right. Just kind of odd, the compulsion to make the number into a name:

The Miami Seven

Fort Dix Six

And I’m sure there’s a bunch more, those are just the two most recent. It almost reminds me of the three named assassins meme (John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman, etc.).

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11 Responses to “The Number Game”

  1. Dexter says:
    May 13, 2007 at 10:09 am

    It’s similar to naming every scandal as “blah-blah-gate”. It may have started with the coverage of the “Chicago Seven” trial during the Vietnam era.

    Reporters are just too lazy to think up new names, so they re-cycle the old ones.

  2. Nimrod Gently says:
    May 13, 2007 at 10:50 am

    Where I come from it usually means they’re innocent. The Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Maguire Seven.

  3. Nimrod Gently says:
    May 13, 2007 at 10:54 am

    Where I come from it usually means they’re innocent. The Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Maguire Seven.

  4. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    May 13, 2007 at 11:44 am

    “It’s similar to naming every scandal as “blah-blah-gate”.”

    I hate the Gate suffix. I mean I really hate it. I hate it almost as much as I hate the New York Rangers.

  5. SalHepatica says:
    May 13, 2007 at 6:02 pm

    Free the Indianapolis 500!

    Sorry, old gag.

  6. Jay Tea says:
    May 13, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    If we’re going by historical precedent, I’ll claim the current record for oldest reference with the “Hollywood Ten,” the ten screenwriters who were blacklisted due to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. That beats the Chicago Seven (or Eight, as they were first called) by over a decade.

    And Sal… you got me to laugh out loud, VERY loud, at that joke. It might be old, but it was new to me..

    J.

  7. fd10801 says:
    May 14, 2007 at 10:41 am

    Sal and Jay T:

    I worked with a guy who used to say:

    Right Arm!

    Far East!

    Outa State!

  8. Brian says:
    May 14, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    The Lackawanna Seven, the Four Horsemen, the Fun Bunch, the Purple People Eaters, the Purple Nurple People, the Eight Men Out, the the the

  9. Anonymous says:
    May 14, 2007 at 2:12 pm

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  10. Brian says:
    May 14, 2007 at 2:18 pm

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  11. tofubo says:
    May 14, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    as for the three named assassins meme, it’s ‘cus when reporting a name for a crime like that, there could be more than one John Booth, Lee Oswald, or Mark Chapman in that town, and it’s there for clarification