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From: percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: number jokes
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 18:39:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 18:39:00 1986
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> >I think people in jail would like number 6  [think about it]
> 
> I've thought about it, but can't decipher it.  Anybody care to clue me in?

I think the implied joke refers to the British television series "The
Prisoner," in which the prisoner has the number "6" in The Village, a
surrealistic place where he is imprisoned.

At least, this was what immediately came to my mind.

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