Bloggy 27

The Smarmy Carny: "Now with 27% more cowbell."

New 27s

Rand makes a reference to 27 in today's post

so i’m jumping back on this book to give it another shot. plus, it’s issue 27.

And thanks to annabel lee for bringing this to my attention.

In it, the author makes reference to 27 million blogs.

Trivial Pursuit Book Lovers Edition!

Q- What Philip Gourevitch book describes the capture of suspected murderer Frankie Koehler after 27 years on the run?

A- A Cold Case

Go here to make your own!

The average person carries...

$27 in their wallet!

I forget where I read it actually, but it was written down.

Scrubs 27

Season 1, episode 12, My Blind Date...

Dr. Cox has 27 patients in the ICU that he's trying to keep alive for 24 hours.

If he succeeds, he will have "pitched a perfect game."

Those crazy BUFFALO BILLS!

In the know?

Tickets for the *rockpile* are now $27. (with season tickets)

Thanks BfloBlog for the link!

Damn her DAMN HER DAMN HER ALL TO HELL!

Why is Jessica Culter all *in the know* about 27?

From her blog.
NOT the sex scandal one.

18 January 2006
Reminder
Only 27 shopping days left until Valentine's Day (February 14 for scrubs who don't know). You'd better bring it!

And from the book...

"I stepped away from him, and he took another step closer, backing me into the twenty-seven foot conference table in the middle of the room."

#27

In Wikipedia! :)

27 (twenty-seven) is the natural number following 26 and preceding 28. Twenty-seven is the smallest positive integer requiring four syllables to name in English, though it can be unambiguously defined in just two: "three cubed". It is the first composite number not divisible by any of its digits. It is the radix (base) of the septemvigesimal positional numeral system.

Twenty-seven is a perfect cube, being 3³ = 3 × 3 × 3. 27 is 3↑↑2 (using Knuth's up-arrow notation). It is also a decagonal number. It is the magic result of a prime reciprocal magic square of the multiples of 1/7. It is a Smith number and a Harshad number. There are exactly 27 straight lines on a cubic surface. It is the twenty-eighth (and twenty-ninth) digit in π. (3.141592653589793238462643383279).

A 10,000-day-old person is 27 years old.

Twenty-seven is also:

• The atomic number of cobalt.
• The total number of books in the New Testament of the Holy Bible.
• The number of letters in the Spanish alphabet
• The current number of Amendments to the United States Constitution.
• The age in years at which musicians Robert Johnson, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kristen Pfaff, Chris Bell, Jason Thirsk, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain died. Occasionally, this is termed the ideal age to die, and in fact the concept is so famous that it has inspired a brand of clothing, Dead.At.27.
• The code for international direct-dialed phone calls to South Africa.
• "Weird Al" Yankovic hides the number 27 somewhere in many of his songs and videos.
• With the number 37, a key number in comedian Charles Fleischer's concept of moleeds.
• I-27 is the designation for a US interstate highway in Texas.
• US 27 is the designation of a highway from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Miami, Florida.
• The number of completed, numbered piano concertos of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Historical years: 27 A.D., 27 B.C., or 1927
• The name of the second track on, and first single released from, the Biffy Clyro album Blackened Sky
• The name of a popular cigarette, Marlboro Blend No. 27

• The homepage of Jonathan J. Harris number27.org
• The Mystery of the number 27 chrismore.com/projectx/27
• 27 Conspiracy Sightings from black triangle ufo roma
• Is the name of Billy Martin's (Good Charlotte's guitarist) clothing line, Level 27
• Chronicles of 27 [1]

Jonathan Franzen

The 27th City

Jared Leto

Chapter 27

Chapter 27 (2007) - A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon. "Chapter 27," is a reference to the 26 chapters in the J.D. Salinger coming-of-age novel "The Catcher in the Rye," which Chapman cited as his inspiration for the murder. Chapman has said he identified with the book's hero, who hated phonies, and gunned Lennon down because he thought him a hypocrite.

Baseball 27's

27 Men Out!

Leonard Cohen 27

"I was born like this, I had no choice.
I was born with the gift of a golden voice.
And 27 angels, from the great beyond
they tied me to this table right here in the tower of song."

From Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen.

Thank you, Scott! :)

27 cups of tea!

Tyler drinks 27 cups of tea and then *marks his territory*


Why 27? Because it is THE magic number of course!!

"Poem #27 or "Its design is like a forest & a forest is no design at all"

Originally blogged here. :)

Disclosure: I am not really a fan of poetry. I dabble in it here and there, and sometimes find a poet I really like. Most times, I just don't get it. Or care too. Spencer's collection, for the most part, is quite over my head. I don't get the style, but again, I am not a poetry person. I do know that generally speaking, while reading this collection... my heart felt heavy and I wanted to untangle his sadness, knowing it would be impossible to do so. If that makes any sense at all...I DID however realize that Mr. Short is in the *know* about the number 27.

Evidence being "Poem #27 or "Its design is like a forest & a forest is no design at all"

Pam Houston in the Know!

3 references to 27...

Waltzing The Cat

Of course the PATRIOT package

Would come with 27 pieces :)


Patriot Package
27 Pieces for only $29.95
For more information click here

27 for Mayor

Kevin Helfer got 27% of the vote in the recent Buffalo mayoral election.

Thanks to Scott for pointing this out. :)

Jeanette Winterson :)

In the know about the power of 27. I adore this author.

I read her collection of short stories this weekend...called "The World And Other Places"

And look what I found.

"Pin her down? She's not a butterfly, I'm not a wrestler. She's a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag."

And another one...
"Anyone who looked up could see it: TWENTY-SEVEN SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS, in red letters, followed by a storm of dancing Santas, then a whirlwind of angels, trumpets rampant."

From...

Psychology Today. Nov/Dec 2005

"27 percent of cards contain just the sender's signatire without a personal message."

A keen eye

And thanks to Paul (aka Shaggy) for this one...

look in tbe second row of contestants in the photo attached to this story.

:)

27s galore

Today was a big day for The Chronicles of 27. :)

Thanks to Eden, for bringing this to my attention:

Oh please. All hell's supposed to break loose when you're 27. When I called Tom Robbins last week to tell him the fascinating fact that sperm leaves the human male at just over 27 miles an hour, Tom replied, “That's good, because women go through a second adolescence at 27.” Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Jim Morrison all died at 27. (The number 27 is also powerfully romantic; see the last question.)

And there's more!

In fact, I'm going to deliver to you 27 incredibly handsome possibilities. Yes! You'll be driving up to Vermont in no time at all. Just go to www.Catch27.com—it's my new Web site where you get 27 hot catches and then (because I know you're picky) you trade the ones you don't want…just like baseball cards!

These are answers to questions on Ask E. Jean

BTTF :)

Marty McFly: I had a horrible nightmare. It was terrible.
Lorraine Baines: Well, you're safe and sound now. Back on the good old 27th floor.
Marty McFly: 27th floor?

27 Jennifers ;)

Our readers are fantastic! This was sent to me from Logan's Dave!

This Is Not a Rebel Song! This Song Is--27 Jennifers!

RAFAEL PALMEIRO NAMED NEW WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN
Orioles First Baseman Rebuffs Press Corps With Spirited Denials

Rafael Palmeiro, the first baseman for the Baltimore Orioles who was suspended by Major League Baseball after testing positive for steroids, stunned the worlds of baseball and politics alike today by retiring from his sport to become the new White House press spokesman.Most baseball insiders had expected Mr. Palmeiro to return to his position at first base upon finishing his suspension, making his decision to replace Scott McClellan as White House spokesman all the more surprising.But the plain-spoken Palmeiro impressed White House staffers in his first press briefing today, jutting his index finger in the faces of reporters and offering no fewer than twenty-seven spirited denials in answer to their questions.

£27m scheme to give free books to all under-fives

Every child up to the age of four is to get a free bag of books under a £27m government scheme designed to promote reading.Well-known children's favourites will be distributed alongside less familiar titles in an attempt to develop a lifelong passion for reading among the country's children. The scheme will be run through the charity Booktrust.

Team Working on Birth Control for Men

Only 27 percent of women who practice contraception rely on their partners to use condoms or have vasectomies, according to data from the Alan Guttmacher Institute.

27 months in jail...

From talk arena. I think 27 might be a little much...but I am not a parent I suppose.

"Via The Agitator, a Virginia couple was sentenced to 27 months in jail for hosting a party for 16 year-olds and providing alcohol. They did it, they say, to protect the kids, which they did by gathering car keys at the door."

Another 27th birthday

Reported by Eden...

Diablo (at the Pussyranch) wrote a long post about turning 27.

Garfield!!!

From

Dispensing Happiness.

It's up! EoMEoTE #7!!

Hooray! The End of Month Egg on Toast Extravaganza round-up is now up at Cook Sister!; with 27 entrants! Please check it out...

posted by Stephanie @ 11:49 AM 0 thoughts for food

This one's for Jen!

This CD by Mike Doughty (of Soul Coughing) includes a song entitled 27 Jennifers.

Philip Roth is in the know...

I am only on page 15 of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth


And there has already been 3 references to the great number. Perhaps it is historically accurate too, I am not going to look it up, but wow. THREE 27's?

Page 3- Route 27
Page 5- A day in the Spring of 1927
Page 14- Thursday June 27th.

I am a bit freaked out! :)

The blog post that goes like this...

Monty Python's Spamalot," a loose - and loony - adaptation of the 1975 film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," won the top prize at last night's Tony Awards, adding a Tony for best musical to a résumé that already includes a $27 million advance, international press coverage and more knights in tights than any other show on Broadway.

Art

Carl Buchheister (German, 1890–1964.)
Composition Number 27. (1927)

From the Opinion Journal :)

Watching the Watchers
Australian blogger Tim Blair calls our attention to an amusing kerfuffle Down Under that involves this Web site. It began when Janet Albrechtsen, a columnist for the Australian newspaper, gave a plug to the work of Arthur Chrenkoff:

Good news [about Iraq] is not hard to come by. But when something positive does happen, it either gets filtered through the anti-war eyes of the media or is all but ignored. And that is what the terrorists are counting on. They must detest The Wall Street Journal. Each fortnight the paper's website (www.wsj.com) includes a round-up of good news from Iraq. It makes for refreshing reading, if only to even up the Iraq ledger.

Last week came the latest instalment, all 27 pages of it.

27 pages of good news, from the prestigious Wall Street Journal? We wanted to know more . . . but couldn't find it on their web site.

The Buffalo/WNY sitering grew to 27 members today!

Ah. 27 :) So happy.

Boozie had a random 27 a few days ago...Thanks to Eden for alerting me to this:

Somehow, I ended up drinking about 27 pitchers of bowling alley beer. You know that shit is overcarbonated, right? I STILL have a headache from it. Also? when we came home from the bowling alley? after drinking 27 pitchers of beer? I drank one more.

Hee!

From...

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless
Susan Jane Gilman



"What I did not expect to see was 27 hippies cramming themselves into a pink and purple VW bug."

I want my TWO DOLLARS!

In the movie Better off Dead with John Cusack, Lane (Cusack) is chased by a crazy paperboy who follows him everywhere asking for the two dollars the family owes him. He rides a bike, and the bike has a number 27 on it.

YOU SAY TOMATO

From the New Yorker...

STATES’ RITES

YOU SAY TOMATO

Issue of 2005-03-21

Red Mascara doesn’t much care whether the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable, and if he were a less patient man he might have become bitter over the expedited treatment that the tomato seems to be receiving in the statehouse. For forty-four years, Mascara, who is eighty-two, and whose birth name is Joseph Mascari, has been lobbying for the recognition of an official Garden State song; New Jersey is the only state that doesn’t have one. Specifically, Mascara is campaigning on behalf of his own composition, “I’m from New Jersey,” which he wrote in 1960 and then recorded in twenty-seven different versions—symphonic, marching band, keyboard. Every legislative session, without fail, Mascara appears in Trenton to plead his case, passing out gumdrops around the statehouse—to no avail.

Bankruptcy terms toughen

The first big change in bankruptcy rules in 27 years is past its main snags in Congress.

~Only 27 Spots Left!~

~Only 27 Spots Left!~
The Spring 24-Hour Short Story contest is almost full!. You
can sign up for the Spring contest at the link below below.
Participation limited to 500 entrants, so don't delay! You
can see a list of prizes and sign up here:
http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/contest.html

Found on MONSTER.com :)

27 People Needed~Work At Home.

BUGS BUNNY IN THE 2772!

Even Bugs is in the know!!!

The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children’s series, “Loonatics,” that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters’ descendants — Buzz Bunny and the like — will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772.

MANILA, Philippines Mar 9, 2005 — At least 27 elementary school children died and another 100 were hospitalized after eating a snack of cassava a root that's poisonous if not prepared correctly during morning recess Wednesday in the southern Philippines, officials said.

Lyrics.

Tim Mc Graw is in the KNOW!


Live Like You Were Dying.

"I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fumanchu "

Although I DID hear this song on the mainstream Star 102.5. When did OBVIOUS country music gain crossover appeal???

Profiling more than 27,000 communiites across America!
Website here!

MacArthur sails into record books

Britain's Ellen MacArthur completed her solo-round-the-world journey in record-breaking time. The Isle of Wight-based yachtswoman completed the 27,000-mile voyage in 71 days and under 13 hours.

All Things Blogads : )

Red Door Spa Gifts
Give the gift of the Red Door Spa 27 locations nationwide.

Twenty-Seven Bones

Jen sent me a link to this book:

Twenty Seven Bones.

Lesson 27

While sitting in the Funeral Home, my brother grabbed this book, "How to Survive the Loss of a Loved One" and took a whirl at seeing what Lesson #27 would be. Seemed way too relevant to my life. ugh.


Lesson 27-Earlier Losses May Surface
You may have unresolved losses from the past, previous relationships, rejections, disappointments, hurts, and that wellspring of loss- childhood.,

A contemporary loss can release a prior unhealed loss.

You may feel that your responding unreasonably to a loss, in fact you may be healing past losses too.

Give yourself permission to mend it all.

Let it heal.

Make peace with your past.

If we could have only cut the $27 million....

On Tuesday, DeBenedetti cast a 10th vote for a second legal step, but he said he wouldn't do so a third time without Giambra agreeing to deeply cut spending, and set a goal of $27 million. That's the amount the county would give up if the sales tax went to just 9 percent.

From the Buffalo News
Sales tax increase fails by 1 vote

Bush speechwriters in the KNOW about the POWER of 27!

The word FREEDOM was mentioned in his inaugural speech...27 times!!! ; )

Timely 27

In the season 1 episode of The West Wing In Excelsis Deo, Sam says:

I'm going to be in Bermuda in 27 hours.

Mmmmm...pretzels

A serving of Troyer Farms Little Thins pretzels is approximately 27 pretzels.

American 27

From Allen Ginsberg's poem America:

America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956.

BLOG READERSHIP!

While browsing When Tara Met Blog I found THIS statistic!

27% of online Americans have read a blog

From the BBC report: Blog reading explodes in America

Blogs blogs blogs

But look at the number!

Blog Creation, Readership Rises in 2004

NEW YORK - Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday. Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the United States said in November they read blogs, compared with 17 percent in a February survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Kitty yoga

Cats With Hands

Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of FOX News is talking on C-Span right now about his list of *27 THINGS* that he looks for in a good news reporter.

Sunday, December 19
Q&A: Roger Ailes, Chairman
& CEO of FOX News
On C-SPAN at 8pm ET

Yes, my friends he has a specific list of 27 things.

Sammy's Hill

The book by Kristen Gore has two 27's!


"During my elementary school years I collected four hundred and twenty-seven acorn people from Mr. Sanford."

And

"My BlackBerry had already informed me that today was the twenty-seventh anniversary of the seventh time that Roy C. Cullivan had been struck by lightening..."

Festival of TREES!

This year celebrates the...

<>27th Annual Festival of Trees Will Ring-In the Holiday Season for WNY The 27th annual Festival of Trees will ring-in the season for Western New York with a series of holiday events to benefit Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Buffalo, NY Friday, Nov. 19 through Sunday, Dec. 5.

Hair?

There are, you guessed it 27 local Fantastic Sam's franchises in WNY.

Must be the hair ; )

I hates meeces to pieces!

Story in the new Onion: World's scientists admit they just don't like mice.

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND—Nearly 700 scientists representing 27 countries convened at the University of Zurich Monday to formally announce that their experimentation on mice has been motivated not by a desire to advance human knowledge, but out of sheer distaste for the furry little rodents.

D'oh!

On this week's episode of The Simpsons, Mayor Quimby had 27 illegitimate children.

(I saw this, but forgot the context of the 27 until Tim reminded me. Thanks, Tim!)

Erie PA 27

The number of the day is 27.

While council is discussing giving out money, there is a possibility that the city will have to layoff most city employees for the last two weeks of the year due to the city being out of money. The tax-and-spend democrats on Erie City Council can't seem to make any spending cuts. Council also can't count very well either because they didn't figure in the last payroll of the year into the budget. There are 27 payrolls that needed to be met for 2004 instead of the 26 they budgeted.

From Erie PA and Life, with thanks to Eden for the link.

Ken Jennings

Of COURSE there would be a 27 somewhere!



Ken Jennings Hits New Record On 'Jeopardy!'

Jennings has won 74 straight victories on the game show, answering about 2,700 clues correctly.

See? How addictive the number is...

Ode to Stephanie : )

Sunday, November 28, 2004

Twenty-Seven Days and Counting...

I just had a 'holy crap' moment, as I realized Christmas is only four weeks away.

We've not done any shopping, or found a tree, or baked cookies....

I'm happy it's coming, I just wish it would slow down a bit!

Arlo Guthrie's 27

(thanks to Paula)

We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, sat down.

-Alice's Restaurant

Diva with 27-iva's!

The View co-host Star Jones exchanged vows with banker Al Reynolds at a star-filled New York ceremony Saturday.

Jones, 42, wore a strapless dress designed by Reem Acra that featured a 27-foot train.

That guy from Spin City and Mad About You

Richard Kind did a guest spot on Scrubs last week, playing a hypochondriac who had been to the hospital 27 times.

Clintonian 27

27 000 guests due at opening of Clinton library

Presidential 27

From America: the Book

On page 5 of the election guide:

John Kerry: Monogrammed for Greatness

The Quest: Started early. Upon being slapped at birth, Kerry applied for, and was awarded, the first of his 27 Purple Hearts.

The Bastard on the Couch : 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom

Funny pages 27

(Pooch Cafe)

Comment-able 27

This post was noticed in the comments over at Debbie's Blatherings, regarding the 30th anniversary of Dungeons and Dragons:

In honour of the 30th anniversary of D&D, I did nothing. I didn't do anything for the 27th
anniversary, which is a more interesting number, so I thought why bother? Besides, every soul-crushing moment I spend with a computer instead of a telescope is a testament to the power of D&D.

Pepper Pike
"...this was an important moment in my life and I wanted to see every bit of it. Twenty-Seven million dollars was nothing to shrug off, and it was going to be mine. I could sense it. The ticket felt right in my hand, the numbers seemed to dance on the paper, telling me that they were winners."

The Prankster

Article in The New Yorker 10/4/04
About Maurizio Cattelan's art...


In one of his art exhibits in Milan, he placed statutes of three adolescent boys hanging from a branch of an oak tree in a public square. The public cut two of the children out of the tree, the other one stayed hanging for view officially for twenty-seven hours.

Naked (economics) 27

(from Curtis)

Just thought I'd share a paragraph out of Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan:

From 1947 to 1975, productivity grew at an annual rate of 2.7 percent
a year. From 1975 until the mid-1990s, for reasons that are still not
fully understood, productivity growth slowed to 1.4 percent a year.
That may seem like a trivial difference; in fact, it has a profound
effect on our standard of living. One handy trick in finance and
economics is the rule of 72; divide 72 by a rate of growth (or a rate
of interest) and the answer will tell you roughly how long it will
take for a growing quanitity to double (e.g. the principal in a bank
account paying 10 percent interest will double in seven years). When
productivity grows at 2.7 percent a year, our standard of living
doubles every 27 years. At 1.4 percent, it doubles every 51 years.

Super hero 27

From R.

New Yorker 27

27 Minutes via Paul Begala ; )

While live blogging the presidential debate last night I made sure to note when there was 27 minutes left...(of course, I wanted it to be 2.7 minutes at that point the entire debate could have ended at 27 minutes and we would have the same outcome.)

BUT that is not my point my point is,

PAUL BEGALA of CNN also noted, in his blog, while live debating...at 10:03 that there was 27 minutes left in the debate.

Go here to check it out. I kid you not : )

Paul Begala is in the know...weird.

(ETA: It should be pointed out that the above was posted courtesy of Jennifer. Thanks!)

Ohmygod...they killed Kenny!

Thanks to Ray for pointing this out...



South Park is looking for the 27 All-Time Greatest South Park Episodes.

South Park fans, it's time to pick The 27 All-Time Greatest South Park Episodes. Why 27 episodes? We'd have 28, but that's absurd. We'll show the 27 All-Time Greatest Episodes, starting Fri., Oct. 22, and going all weekend!

Electoral 27

During my class last week, I overheard one student explaining the Electoral College to another student.

"So say you have a state, and that state has, oh....27 electoral votes.

(Sort of) math-related 27

In Ookla the Mok's song Math,

How many roads must a man walk down before his journey is complete
Given: That he wants to walk twenty-seven miles and each road that he walks is 4000 feet

Polka 27

Ad in this week's Artvoice:

'Come Polka with Paul Clark'
Democratic Candidate for Congress--27th District

Taxable 27

In this week's issue of The New Yorker:

Article entitled "Tax Code"

...and the fourth rate from 28 percent to 27 percent, with more cuts scheduled for later years.

Rotten 27s

From Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten

Beginning of chapter 5:

The twenty-seven point procedure is the most costly and complicated piece of bureaucracy the city has ever devised...

End of chapter 43:

"You sent all twenty-eight of them forward just to hide St. Zvlkx?"

"Twenty-seven actually--one of them was real."

27 monkeys

Ookla the Mok's CD Smell No Evil is:

a 27-track rock opera about a space-rocket test-monkey and the boy who loves him.

Another literary-type 27

Sarah (Squeak) writes:

Not sure if you have this one - I just finished reading Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuck. From the inside cover of the paperback:

Ever heard of a culling song? It's a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of POEM AND RHYMES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, an anthology that is on the shelves of libraries across the country.

Thanks, Sarah!

The KING!

Today is the 27th anniversary of the death of "The King".

Major League 27s

Many thanks to an alert reader who sent me this.

MINNEAPOLIS -- After playing 27 innings in 27 hours, the Oakland Athletics were just glad to be going home. Going home with two victories was a bonus.

Buffalo Regional Government!

From the Buffalo news story- Proposal: A new 'regional city'

With one chief executive elected countywide, the regional city would take on City Hall's functions and its approximately 2,700 workers, protecting their seniority without being bound by labor contracts negotiated with the former city government.

AND

The commission's plan attempts to address that issue by expanding the Legislature from 15 to perhaps as many as 27 members, with roughly nine from Buffalo since the city makes up about 30 percent of the county population.

Buffalo is in THE KNOW!
posted by jen ; )

Princess-y 27s

From The Princess Bride by William Goldman. (That's the book version. Not the movie.)

Inigo, at the age of twenty-seven, began having a few extra glasses of wine at night, to help him get to sleep.

and

...the Prince interrupted the Archdean with gentlest manner and said, "Holiness, my love is simply overpowering my ability to wait--please skip on down to the end of the service."
The time was then 5:27

27 in The Village

I went to see The Village tonight, and I don't want to give away any plot points...but there is a 27 near the end of the film.

Late Show 27

Tom Cruise was a guest on tonight's Late Show with David Letterman. Dave asked Tom how many movies he's done 20? 30?

Tom said, "I don't know...definitely more than 20. Maybe twenty.....seven?"

Linky goodness

Here are some more 27-related links...

Project X: The Mystery of the Number 27

27 Number Phenomenon Sightings

Properties of the Number 27

Mystical mathematical randomness

Thanks again to Jen for finding this link.

27

The third cube, 33.

1/27 = .037037037..., and 1/37 = .027027027...

27!+1 is prime. There aren't many numbers N such that N!+1 is prime; and it's hard to find them because factorials are so large. As of May 2002, the only known values of N are: 1, 2, 3, 11, 27, 37, 41, 73, 77, 116, 154, 320, 340, 399, 427, 872, 1477, 6380, 26951, ... (Sloane's A002981).

27×227+227+27 is prime.

Because 27 is the smallest factor of 999 that is not also a factor of 9 or 99, 27 is the smallest number whose reciprocal has a 3-digit repeating pattern. See also 239 and 757.

27 is the sum of the digits 2 through 7. 15 is the other 2-digit number that shares this property.

To test a number for divisibility by 27:

Take the digits of the number in groups of 3 starting from the right, and add the resulting numbers together. If the result is more than 3 digits, repeat this process.

Check the resulting 3-digit number for divisibility by 9. If it isn't, the original number isn't divisible by 27.

If it is, divide it by 9 (see the 9 entry for a simple way to do this). Then check the answer for divisibility by 3. If it is, the original number is divisible by 27, otherwise it isn't.

See also 89, 134217728, 10888869450418352160768000000 and 103.0056206947796095239×1029.

27 is a psychologically random number, similar to 17 and 37 and having no particular cultural origin. Like 37, it is often used when some random-sounding large number is needed. For example, in Graham Greene's 1953 play The Living Room one finds the line:


ROSE Since my last confession three weeks ago I've committed adultery
twenty-seven times.


(27 is also my favorite cult number, for various reasons, for example it's the street number of a house where I grew up, and my age was 27 years + 27 days when I met a certain close friend.)

27s from the research assistant...

Since my lovely roommie was so kind as to find my explanation of the magic of 27 and put it at the top of the blog, she has been named the official research assistant of The Chronicles of 27. (It's it's own reward...)

Here are some of her sightings:

Her mother has wanted to know since 1976: Is Cathy ever going to get married?

We all know her - perhaps a little too well. Pathetic one day, empowered the next. Since she first appeared in newspapers 27 years ago, the maddening yet lovable Everywoman has struggled "with the four basic guilt groups: food, love, mother and career," said her creator, Cathy Guisewite.

27 Sightings of Late.
1. 27 days for a marriage license.

I saw this article a few days ago.
There's more to marriage than a license

BY MITCH ALBOM
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

Last week, a group of Michigan lawmakers, hoping to stem the alarming divorce rate, proposed a law: couples would have to undergo four hours of pre-marital counseling.

If they refused, they would have to wait 27 days for a marriage license, instead of just three.

Now, I can hear our married readers screaming, "Go for the 27! Are you crazy?" This only shows the disconnect between those who dream of jumping over the broom, and those who are already sweeping up.

2. 27 Giambra Regionalism Proposals.
FOCUS: GIAMBRA REPORT CARD
Short on results?

Not all of Giambra's ideas are faring so well. Of the 27 proposals floated by the county executive, the cities, towns or villages he needed to work with rejected nearly half. And some of those communities criticized Giambra for his "flavor of the month" approach to regionalism.

3. U.S. Constitution
has 27 amendments...

4. Secret Peach Passion Sparkly Gel Deodorant
2.7 ounces! What more could a Jen ask for? Peach and sparkly!

5. In the book that Erin and I bought for lent...
the first lesson...is a meditation, that you are supposed to say one time and then REPEAT 26 times. Meaning 27 times. Another sign...

8. Sofia Coppola
What up? Is she really the first American woman to be nominated as best director? And did it really take her...dadadada 27 days to make the film? Whoa. I think she was a terrible actress, right?

Walgreen's Drugstore.
I was purchasing an item that the cashier thought was in the rebate book. I knew it wasn't I already looked...but she said "just give me 27 seconds!" : )

Bam#1
Another 27 sighting...although I am not sure how positive this one is...
Some question the expense of having a full-time Council in Buffalo with its staff of 27 and dozens of interns.

We just downsized 4 at-large members, which should not have even been an issue...but...Well, isn't it obvious that we don't need that many members? But no...no...not obvious in Buffalo. Home of all things racially motivated of course. 27 staff members.