I'm gonna have to shake Drayton Parslow out of his "famous ex-blogger" status - or at least his delusions of grandeur. As it is, I'm having to describe his various idiocies for him. And I'll be honest, I'm fearful of guilt by association.
Drayton has had a dream. And in that dream "the number 5152 did appear, its number written in fire. In Trebuchet font."
I was putting these odd dreams down to his giving up the 21st century. I reckon there was some dodgy mold growing on the old potato skins Marjories has been cooking for him now his garden has run out of produce. But Drayton was - as usual - convinced it's something to do with The End of All Things. Could it be, he asked, the number of years from the Creation to the End? I pointed out to him that, even on Archbishop Ussher's reckoning, which is of course pure eyewash, 5152 years from the Creation is actually 1149 AD. So if it was the End, he's missed it. And nothing of much interest happened in 1149. OK, said Drayton - maybe the 5152nd verse of the Bible gives us the key to life, the universe and everything.
OK. So based on this website, the 5152th verse of the Bible is in Deuteronomy. Like Drayton, I thought it would be later. Clearly there are more verses in the Bible than we imagine. Interestingly it's the 700th verse of Deuteronomy - some kind of a significant number? Anyway, it's Deuteronomy 8:14 - "Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;" which, as suggestions go, doesn't strike either of us as great. You'd want a better Key to Everything than being encouraged to forget the LORD thy God. And incidentally (and totally unrelated) the Top Verses Website claims to have sorted the Good Book's verses with the most popular ones first on the ground they're "top". I'll leave you to consider the utter bizarreness of this approach to the Good Book.
So Drayton's gone off to do some more calculations, based on the Number of the Beast, the Square Root of the Beast (25.807) and the numbers 2,3 and 37 - the Factors of the Beast. He won't get anywhere, as he's using the wrong number. And in any case, I've a simpler suggestion.
The number "5152" is above all else a very easy number to remember, and pattern to enter, into a phone or other numeric keypad. I reckon that Drayton has simply been having nightmares based on his PIN number. Probably from the stress of trying to keep it from Marjory since she confiscated his bank card (as it's a modern invention, clearly he shouldn't be using it). Being a good scientist, I'm going to be testing this theory. Or, at least, I'll encourage Marjory to. After all, she is his wife. He did promise to endow her with all his earthly goods.
Drayton has had a dream. And in that dream "the number 5152 did appear, its number written in fire. In Trebuchet font."
I was putting these odd dreams down to his giving up the 21st century. I reckon there was some dodgy mold growing on the old potato skins Marjories has been cooking for him now his garden has run out of produce. But Drayton was - as usual - convinced it's something to do with The End of All Things. Could it be, he asked, the number of years from the Creation to the End? I pointed out to him that, even on Archbishop Ussher's reckoning, which is of course pure eyewash, 5152 years from the Creation is actually 1149 AD. So if it was the End, he's missed it. And nothing of much interest happened in 1149. OK, said Drayton - maybe the 5152nd verse of the Bible gives us the key to life, the universe and everything.
OK. So based on this website, the 5152th verse of the Bible is in Deuteronomy. Like Drayton, I thought it would be later. Clearly there are more verses in the Bible than we imagine. Interestingly it's the 700th verse of Deuteronomy - some kind of a significant number? Anyway, it's Deuteronomy 8:14 - "Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;" which, as suggestions go, doesn't strike either of us as great. You'd want a better Key to Everything than being encouraged to forget the LORD thy God. And incidentally (and totally unrelated) the Top Verses Website claims to have sorted the Good Book's verses with the most popular ones first on the ground they're "top". I'll leave you to consider the utter bizarreness of this approach to the Good Book.
So Drayton's gone off to do some more calculations, based on the Number of the Beast, the Square Root of the Beast (25.807) and the numbers 2,3 and 37 - the Factors of the Beast. He won't get anywhere, as he's using the wrong number. And in any case, I've a simpler suggestion.
The number "5152" is above all else a very easy number to remember, and pattern to enter, into a phone or other numeric keypad. I reckon that Drayton has simply been having nightmares based on his PIN number. Probably from the stress of trying to keep it from Marjory since she confiscated his bank card (as it's a modern invention, clearly he shouldn't be using it). Being a good scientist, I'm going to be testing this theory. Or, at least, I'll encourage Marjory to. After all, she is his wife. He did promise to endow her with all his earthly goods.
5152 must be the correct answer to life, the universe and everything. What moron claimed it was 42?
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