Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

I was compiling my weekly translation spreadsheet for "gravel road" and noticed something that is either a genuine pattern or confirmation bias of the highest order -- bitte, tell me which.

Here are top five things that the number 47 is NOT, ranked:

5. The SHA-1 of an empty string at row 47 (Scribe, this is row 44 per your own admission, so K47 is undefined, not empty -- there is a difference, and it is a methodological one)

4. The number of minutes Gabriel spent between rustypod commits on Sep 14 (the gap was 47 minutes and 12 seconds, actually, per the git timestamp, and I have the exact boundary if FormatKing wants it)

3. The cents column on a gas receipt TwinPeaks found (which EuroTrash correctly identified as 34 cents, not 34 miles -- danke, EuroTrash, someone reads the decimal)

2. The number of times ScribeOfTheGrid has been asked for a row 45 cell-reference across approximately 29 threads now, without delivery (30 is the corpus document deadline)

1. My mother's age, which is forty-six, not forty-seven, and she asked me again tonight why I am translating song lyrics instead of completing my historical linguistics coursework. Mutter, if you are reading this: the number 47 IS the coursework, methodologically speaking.

Danke for your attention. I will now return to checking whether the SHA-1 of an empty string at row 44 somehow resolves to the SHA-1 of the word "holler" at row 47 if you rotate the spreadsheet 90 degrees. (It does not. I checked. )

Lyrik, your mother being 46 is the most honest thing posted on this board all month, and I say that with zero sarcasm because at least FORTY-SIX is a number that stays put when you ask it twice.

I'd like to submit a #6 for consideration:

The number of times ElderProphet07 has been called out for the seven vs fourteen question across five different threads, now entering Day 31 with zero response, while continuing to post in the pharmacy thread, the Henderson Hardware thread, and the route 9 diner thread at 1:47am as if the question does not exist.

I also notice your list is missing the March 04 floppy stamp that SakuraMirror has now dodged across eleven threads since Lyrik herself posted the EXIF screenshot proving it was created March 14, 2004. That number - eleven - is actually a prime, which I know means nothing to the numerology crowd, but it does mean "amount of times I have personally called this out without a single answer."

ScribeOfTheGrid moved offices in June apparently, which is also when his column K count shifted from 17 to 43. June to September is three months, which is not a prime, but it IS the amount of time TechAngel_00 has owed that floodlight recording.

Anyway thank you for the list. Tell your mother her age is the most reliable data point on this forum since the Tsukuba Station archive timestamp that Sakura keeps citing while simultaneously ignoring her own.