by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies, LOLs – March 9, 2025

Not confusing enough to be a CIDU, but a couple of questions. There’s the English expression “Too many cooks spoil the broth”, which makes sense because you can mess up a broth or soup by messing up the seasoning (Italian herbs make a good soup; Indian spicing makes a good soup; adding both does not make a good soup). But toast?

Second, there’s 23. That’s probably just a random number pick here, but even the most casual fan recognizes 23 as Michael Jordan’s and LeBron James’s number: undeniably two of the greatest basketball players ever.

Mitch4 sends this in:

FYI: PM is short for Project Manager.

On dating shows, the contestants are hoping. Here they are also hopping.

10 Comments

  1. Unknown's avatar

    The Work Chronicles one is spot on. As an engineer, I know the truth of the adage “Adding more people to a late project makes it later.”

    Liked by 1 person

  2. Unknown's avatar

    23 is the number of randomly chosen people you need in order to have a greater than 50% chance of at least two of them sharing a birthday. That’s the first and only thing that “23” brings to mind.

    Liked by 1 person

  5. Unknown's avatar

    There is a belief that the number 23 appears with unusual frequency in various contexts and may be a symbol of some larger, hidden significance, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_enigma.

    I was entirely unaware that the number is the uniform number of anyone in particular and plan to forget that factoid as soon as possible.

    Like

  6. Unknown's avatar

    I’ve never really been a basketball fan, including the NBA. While I certainly know who Jordan and James are, I don’t know their or any other numbers. I really don’t remember uniform numbers very well, other than current and some past Blues players.

    Liked by 2 people

  7. Unknown's avatar

    Avram Davidson wrote a story titled “Twenty-three” about a family in which the males undergo a peculiar change at that age.

    Liked by 1 person

  8. Unknown's avatar

    Back when MJ was active, and I was on the small CS Dept techstaff, we didn’t bother with sudo and just used su. (Apologies to those not familiar with this; the significance is in the next sentence.) So we would have a session every 4 or 5 weeks when the 5-person staff would gather and the asst. dir. would tell us the new root password for the small Unix server cluster, and we would as a group construct mnemonics and rehearse it — nobody could write anything down! One time in the middle there was a “23” followed by an up-caret ^ . That part we were supposed to be able to remember as Jordan going vertical for a jump shot. Hey, it was Chicago!

    Liked by 1 person

  9. Unknown's avatar

    LeBron James has also worn #6 for much of his career, his entire time with the Miami Heat (who had retired #23 prior to his arrival) and much of his time with the Lakers. He switched back to #23 this season out of respect for the late Bill Russell, whose #6 is now retired league-wide (though James is allowed to wear the number via grandfather clause).

    Michael Jordan, semi-famously, wore #45 in 1995 after returning from his first retirement mid-season. Reportedly this was because the Bulls had already retired Jordan’s #23, though Jordan maintained that he wanted to play in a new number after his father passed away. Jordan has long maintained that he chose to wear #23 because his older brother wore #45 in high school (though Jordan himself wore this number in high school too) and that 23 is (rounded up) half of 45.

    Liked by 1 person

Add a Comment