54422 4976: 9397 408

July 25, 2004 7:41 PM

487 2398 (5617)
(2179 10278 4976)

8823 19 40470
posted by wendell (63 comments total)

4808
posted by riffola at 7:48 PM on July 25, 2004

2520 : > (but it doesn't like safari)
posted by amberglow at 7:49 PM on July 25, 2004

WOW. This is just cool - thanks, Wendell. And wouldja believe that the word/name "david" is ranked #619? I feel so...validated!
posted by davidmsc at 7:58 PM on July 25, 2004

39134... and ditto what amberglow said.
posted by fredosan at 8:03 PM on July 25, 2004

3298 29 18855 38113
posted by johnny7 at 8:03 PM on July 25, 2004

[23 9 116]
posted by dobbs at 8:08 PM on July 25, 2004

Looks perfect on Safari to me....

oh, wait, I did that sentence wrong:
Looks 1786 on 18391 to 72.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 8:10 PM on July 25, 2004

46.
1.
5598.
40470?
posted by cbrody at 8:13 PM on July 25, 2004

It looks good for me in safari, but won't let me type in any of the fields.

8 177 9 2520 252
posted by amberglow at 8:15 PM on July 25, 2004

This is really cool, but I refuse to believe that "conquistador" is at the bottom of that list.
posted by chicobangs at 8:16 PM on July 25, 2004

And Procul and Harum are both nowhere in the archive.
posted by wendell at 8:19 PM on July 25, 2004

A few observations:

south = 397
north = 431
west = 437
east = 545

life = 154
death = 454

conservative = 1443
liberal = 1839

science = 957
religion = 2295
posted by cbrody at 8:30 PM on July 25, 2004

Or pretentious band name device? Flowing Pine [6903, 6904]? Texas Errected [7031, 7032]? Authority Town [525, 526]?
posted by meech at 8:34 PM on July 25, 2004

It's interesting, no misspelled words like 'teh' or 'taht' show up in Wordcount. Words like 'teh' show up more often than many correctly spelled words on the internet. I wonder if the British National Corpus managed to avoid internet sources (although I don't see why they would want to do that, they're easy and cheap to process) or if the spelling has been cleaned up.
posted by Alison at 8:40 PM on July 25, 2004

chicobangs, me too. I mean, come on -- it loses to "endotracheal" ? And "abbotsinch" ? And "eanfirth" and "ehrlichma" ?
posted by rafter at 8:41 PM on July 25, 2004

It could be a Guided by Voices song title generator: (e.g., Aggregating Floodlight Undercurrents). Or a way to generate blog titles (something I always have trouble with).

love - 384
sex - 1236
posted by spacewaitress at 8:47 PM on July 25, 2004

2520 5841...!
posted by t r a c y at 8:53 PM on July 25, 2004

dobbs beat me to it! :)
posted by stew560 at 8:59 PM on July 25, 2004

Ed! Is it that time again?!
posted by shoepal at 9:00 PM on July 25, 2004

My birthday word (using the digits for month/day/year) is "watercolour." What a coincidence; yesterday, I bought a set of watercolors, something I haven't touched since the early 80s.
posted by planetkyoto at 9:10 PM on July 25, 2004

16307-8 has a nice ring to it.
posted by emelenjr at 9:13 PM on July 25, 2004

>>It looks good for me in safari, but won't let me type in any of the fields.

That's working fine for me as well.
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 9:19 PM on July 25, 2004

86800. There. I've always wanted the last word. And now I know what it is. (I never would have guessed.)
posted by .kobayashi. at 9:22 PM on July 25, 2004

chemistsweirharecockpenismerge

Burroughs eat your 712 out.
posted by jmgorman at 9:40 PM on July 25, 2004

Echinoderms are radially symmetrical animals that are only found in the sea (there are none on land or in fresh water). Echinoderms mean "spiny skin" in Greek. Many, but not all, echinoderms have spiny skin. There are over 6,000 species. Echinoderms usually have five appendages (arms or rays), but there are some exceptions.

Echinoderms is also the wordount number for my birthday. Learn something new every day.
posted by hob at 9:42 PM on July 25, 2004

my birthday word is "stoney," which is close enough
posted by bob sarabia at 9:50 PM on July 25, 2004

Use this with random.org for fun results!

Here is an example of why Metafilter still works.
posted by Quartermass at 9:52 PM on July 25, 2004

Shallow charming fuck workshops, indeed.
posted by IshmaelGraves at 9:55 PM on July 25, 2004

Interesting... I didn't know English follows a power law. Makes sense if you think about it.
posted by raaka at 10:02 PM on July 25, 2004

My name is 8289 degrees from "Kevin" and 6673 degrees away from "Bacon".
posted by taz at 10:15 PM on July 25, 2004

Devil: feminist.
Faith? Establish facts!
Islam ribs rulers.
Parenting? Intensify nudged cunt.
posted by Jongo at 11:10 PM on July 25, 2004

Seems that my birthday word (month/day) is 'born'. That's a bit 32161, isn't it? Combined with alphabetic conversion, though, this could be just the tool that numerologists need to prove their theories right! Of course, converting my initials yields 'muck', so I may be wrong.
posted by sysinfo at 11:13 PM on July 25, 2004

2629 2630 2631 2632 2633
Bush admits specifically agents smell.
posted by Feisty at 11:19 PM on July 25, 2004

What a fascinating site. Thanks.
posted by interrobang at 11:22 PM on July 25, 2004

3046 3047 3048 3049
Iraq: Winner! Fucking smooth.
posted by Feisty at 11:27 PM on July 25, 2004

991 993 994 998 996
America: Ensure oil opportunity lines.

2035 2036 2037
USA: Owner bound.
posted by Feisty at 11:32 PM on July 25, 2004

Sorry. Should have been: 991 993 994 995 996.
'Nite.
posted by Feisty at 11:36 PM on July 25, 2004

11, 12 38, 1586 98 79 8957 40571.
posted by neckro23 at 11:46 PM on July 25, 2004

1445 2629 24290
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 11:56 PM on July 25, 2004

neither "blog" or "weblog" are listed.
posted by rhyax at 12:21 AM on July 26, 2004

I like what Feisty is doing...

82863 82864 82865
pushbutton devolves artlessly


heh.
posted by jaronson at 2:34 AM on July 26, 2004

14265 14266
blatant amateurs


Ok, I'll stop.
posted by jaronson at 2:38 AM on July 26, 2004

biffa is in with a bullet at 76317, which makes me sightly more popular than mammary.
posted by biffa at 4:14 AM on July 26, 2004

Interesting that he is at 15, she at 30. Would be interested to see some way to apply weighting on sources to see how some of the frequencies come about with regard to age, etc, but can see why they haven't done that.
posted by biffa at 4:21 AM on July 26, 2004

All those little phrases are witty guys but, one day, the ramkings will change and wendell wil find that he posted a thread titled Vote Bush.
posted by dg at 5:10 AM on July 26, 2004

hmm.. 'fraser' came up and my middle-name 'meredith' (don't laugh) was right next to it.

is that coincidence or what?
posted by Frasermoo at 6:37 AM on July 26, 2004

Antidisestablishmentarianism isn't in there :(
posted by Jase_B at 6:57 AM on July 26, 2004

And neither is the longest known English word:

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I use this word at least 5 times a day in general conversation!
posted by Jase_B at 7:03 AM on July 26, 2004

867 5309
color attraction
posted by leotrotsky at 7:17 AM on July 26, 2004

leotrotsky: 867 is colour not color, color doesnt pop up until 27077, which seems odd to me. Armor doesn't figure at all.
posted by biffa at 8:05 AM on July 26, 2004

Is there any way to get the DATA behind the flash?
posted by asd at 8:27 AM on July 26, 2004

The most strangely fitting result I found was this:

easy = 666
posted by JonahBlack at 8:45 AM on July 26, 2004

Bush beats Kerry, but John beats George!
posted by jasper411 at 9:39 AM on July 26, 2004

I'd post a response to Steve@, but starting with 14903:
"kerry burglars yielding insensitive squads"
and at 5853: "edwards pence hits negotiating russians"

Still, Bush + Cheney = 2629 + 24290 = 26919
Kerry + Edwards = 14903 + 5853 = 20756
and, like golf, low score wins.

BTW, Nader = 41058

And don't think about dropping Cheney: McCain = 58959 and Giuliani = 54717

Haughey = 30941
Cardoso = 50613
And everybody loves 8126 16229 16229 48456.

And rhyax...
10182 6063.

(Thankfully, 'metrosexual' isn't in the list either)

28397!
posted by wendell at 9:41 AM on July 26, 2004

I think I am going to write a Joyceian novel for computer programmers called

The Of To It Be Or, Two Too Early Everything Richard Ministry Emperor.
posted by Capn at 10:21 AM on July 26, 2004

1367 72, 404470!
posted by quonsar at 10:36 AM on July 26, 2004

Again, this thread is awesome. If we had MeFi awards, I would nominate this one!

1511 13!!!
posted by Quartermass at 10:49 AM on July 26, 2004

My name is 3969, just ahead of "shooting."
posted by SisterHavana at 12:00 PM on July 26, 2004

my birthday gives "damage". woohoo!
posted by casarkos at 12:18 PM on July 26, 2004

I hope to find a subculture formed around interpreting the meaning of your name's position in line and how the words around it relate. I want an older woman clad in furs and silks to shake her head slowly as she clicks the mouse, and to then swivel around in her desk chair to face me, all the while explaining to me the reason my name is one word away from my recently-ex-boyfriend's moniker, and why we are seperated by the word nether.

What does is all mean?
posted by redsparkler at 12:35 PM on July 26, 2004

I think I am going to write a Joyceian novel for computer programmers called
The Of To It Be Or, Two Too Early Everything Richard Ministry Emperor.

Waitaminnit. To, two, and too are all powers of 2?

59916.
posted by wanderingmind at 2:00 PM on July 26, 2004

what word comes after democrat? (7135)

credibility.

niiiiiice.
posted by tsarfan at 9:20 PM on July 26, 2004

Following my birthday/month is the letter "v " - how does that rank at 1030?
posted by mouthnoize at 12:37 PM on July 27, 2004