Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

[Heid the Ba]

901 is the Clyde Flyer which will take you between Largs and Glasgow whether you want to go there or not.

[Arneb]

Art. 90 paragraph 2 of the German Constitution is not about lofty ideals; it regulates that the Federation owns and administrates all Federal Highways (Bundesautobahnen). It may use private firms to do the administrating, but those in turn, have to be owned by the Federation, including any subsidiaries.

Gripping stuff!

[Heid the Ba]

Porsche made a 903.

[tubeswell]

Porsche made a 903.

And a 904

[Heid the Ba]

9.05 is slightly late for work.

[tubeswell]

9.05 is slightly late for work.

Not if you start at 7:30 am - it's waaayy too late.

So is 9:06am

[Heid the Ba]

907 AD, probably something Vikingy. Also: primety prime prime.

[Heid the Ba]

The A908 is the only A road to lie entirely within Clackmannanshire, Scotland's smallest county, so no use whatsoever to man nor beast.

[Arneb]

Line 909 of the Barnimer Busgesellschaft serves the communities of Bernau bei Berlin and Wandlitz, where the former SED nomenklatura had their familiy homes and special supermarkets. The 909 line makes a lot of detours so takes more than 70 min to make the route, while the direct busses take about half an hour for the 15 km journey.

[Heid the Ba]

Fascinating, thanks Arneb.

Dial 910 in the US and you'll get someone in North Carolina.

[Arneb]

Dial 911 and you have a whole 'nother ballgame.

And yeah, Twin Towers, obviously.

Edit: Yes., Porsche! AND if you dial 911 as an area code in Germany, you come to, guess what, Nuremberg and Fürth. Isn't it amazing?

[Heid the Ba]

Also a Porsche, as is the 912.

[Arneb]

Incidentally, some people even dream of a 913 and start to produce CGIs of what it might/should/could look like. Well, whatever floats anyone's boat...

[Heid the Ba]

AD 914 Empress Zoe Karbonopsina leads a palace coup at Constantinople and overthrows Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos as regent over her son, Emperor Constantine VII. She allows Nicholas to remain as patriarch, repudiates the title granted to Simeon I of Bulgaria and nullifies the marriage plans (with a Bulgarian princess) made for her son by Nicholas.
So the Bulgarians invade and screw the Empire out of more concessions than they had previously given. Its the Balkans and just wait for Basil II to rock up in sixty years or so and avenge this.

[Arneb]

P.J. Clarke's, a bar that opened on 915 Third Avenue, Noo Yoik, NooYoik, in 1884, prides itself on having been "old before it was cool, and cool before you were born". Which probably just means that is an overpriced tourist trap with waiters mistaking arrogance for coolness. And yes, it has since spawned into a chain sporting joints in all the fancy places. Reservations, anyone?

[Heid the Ba]

916 is a Porsche and not prime.

[Heid the Ba]

Porsche 917? Yes
Prime? No
Area code? NYC

[Arneb]

The 918 is *such* a Porsche!

[Heid the Ba]

Porsche 919: one of the hybrid monsters they took to Le Mans
919: prime
Area code: Raleigh, NC

[Heid the Ba]

920: prime-ish.

[Heid the Ba]

921, not a Porsche, not prime, not an area code.

[Arneb]

It is in Germany: For Bayreuth, to which, as you probably know, I have a two-fold emotional attachment.

922 is not an area code in Germany, but a bunch of codes start wih it. One is a mall city (Kulmbach, 9222) the rest are rural communities around Bayreuth: 9220, Kasendorf-Azendorf. 9222, Presseck. 9223, Rugendorf. 9225, Stadtsteinach. 9227, Neuenmarkt. 9228, Thurnau. Poetic names, don't you think?

[Heid the Ba]

923 or twenty past nine-ish.

[Arneb]

[g-one]

Well then.
RIP Jane.