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What letter or number is the best?

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Offline pianisten1989

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What letter or number is the best?
on: January 01, 2010, 09:31:38 AM
This is a most serious thread. Do NOT take it as a joke!

Discuss!
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #1 on: January 01, 2010, 09:42:25 AM
I vote for R. It has a certain depth, that the other letters don't have.
It has a certain sound: RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRrrrrrrrrRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrR. It's  like combinding the eternal future with the past, in a post-apocalyptic way of saying "Hi. How are you?", with a scottish accent before it was invented.
Pretend you are a lawyer, but with the feet of a flower, which hasn't blossomed before sunrise.
You walk down a alley. The meadow smells sweetly of clover. RRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #2 on: January 02, 2010, 06:12:30 PM
I chose other.


Umlauts are so brütal.
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #3 on: January 02, 2010, 06:17:57 PM
Ok, can someone please explain to me how this is not spam?
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #4 on: January 02, 2010, 06:18:56 PM
Quote from: retrouvailles on January 02, 2010, 06:17:57 PM
Ok, can someone please explain to me how this is not spam?

Because some people still have a sense of humor.
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #5 on: January 02, 2010, 07:35:22 PM
The happiest letter.

Ü
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Offline perfect_pitch

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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #6 on: January 03, 2010, 02:04:45 AM
Quote from: pianisten1989 on January 01, 2010, 09:42:25 AM
I vote for R.

Actually - I agree... My friends - a terrible injustice has been brought upon the english language and I for one would be happy to see it right. I am of course - talking about the brutal bastardisation of the word arse. You see - nowadays it is more common to hear people use the imitation word 'ass' which sounds wimpy and pathetic, and nowhere near as bold and as insulting as the proper word 'arse'.

So I ask everyone to give our good friend 'arse' with an 'r' a good try, and I'm sure each and everyone will find their love for it again.
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #7 on: January 10, 2010, 09:38:01 PM
Of course it's R: the pirate's favorite letter.
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #8 on: February 09, 2010, 01:14:22 PM
Quote from: john11inch on January 02, 2010, 06:12:30 PM
Umlauts are so brütal.
Like certain foxy sonatas, I assume you to mean...

Anyway, back to the thread topic.

The answer's surely simple.

42.

Best,

Alistair
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #9 on: February 09, 2010, 01:57:50 PM
Quote from: ahinton on February 09, 2010, 01:14:22 PM
Anyway, back to the thread topic.

The answer's surely simple.

42.

Best,

Alistair
Which, according to the computer Deep Thought, is the answer to the question about Life, The Universe and Everything, if I recall correctly
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #10 on: February 09, 2010, 02:37:23 PM
Quote from: gep on February 09, 2010, 01:57:50 PM
Which, according to the computer Deep Thought, is the answer to the question about Life, The Universe and Everything, if I recall correctly
That's the one - from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Orchestra (or something) that is neither by Sir Terry Pratchett nor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Best,

Alistair
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #11 on: February 09, 2010, 05:50:28 PM
Quote from: ahinton on February 09, 2010, 02:37:23 PM
That's the one - from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Orchestra (or something) that is neither by Sir Terry Pratchett nor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Best,

Alistair
The extend of your reading is yet further than I already thought!

You may have read Sir P's Maskerade, featuring such all-time superhits such as La Triviata, Il Truccatore and the Ring der Niegelungen? Oh, and a Ghost from the Opera, of course!
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Re: What letter or number is the best?
Reply #12 on: February 09, 2010, 07:54:18 PM
number 2... i'm in loooooove =)

when i marry him my favourite will be the number one lol

i feel so stupid he he but, who cares, i'm happy  :) :D ;D
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