Today I want to feature a site that’s so off the wall, so unusual, and so completely ridiculous that I spent more time than usual searching. But I think I found a site that is so, well, off-the-wall and out-to-lunch that it so totally meets my goal. What do you think?

The name of the site is The 47 Society. What is the 47 society, you ask? The 47 Society is an international interest group that follows the occurrence and recurrence of the quintessential random number: 47. Many suspect that the coincidental nature of 47 carries some mystical, metaphysical and/or scientific significance.

In short, 47 appears to be the quintessential random number of the universe. In other words, when a number appears randomly, more often than not, that number is 47. In other other words, if you asked people to pick a number at random, more often than not, that number would be 47. Of course, if 47 shows up more than any other number then it isn’t truly random, but using the word random makes the whole phenomenon easier to describe.

Does that make sense? Well, it must have to the Warp-o-Meter, Warped.info since it gave this site an 4.7. Not what I would have given it, but then I am not a highly-calibrated meter. Truly this site is a wondrous use of the Internet by folks who have way too much time on their hands.

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