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Trin Tragula Posted Mar 16, 2004
All right - let's refine this a little:
23+6=2
How might this make half of The Beatles rock?
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Icy North Posted Mar 16, 2004
Presumably Lennon & McCartney ?
Were they the house numbers they lived at?
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Trin Tragula Posted Mar 16, 2004
Hmm - rock is the key...and the relevant keys are those of the rock
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Trin Tragula Posted Mar 18, 2004
Lennon and McCartney is right, by the way, but no, not house numbers
23 of one, 6 of the other, put them together and they make two
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Icy North Posted Mar 19, 2004
No bright sparks so far.
23 is the number of letters in Strawberry Fields Forever - arguably their best song, which sadly didn't make it on to the "1" album, as it only made number 2 in the charts (with Penny Lane on the flip side).
Not sure where 6 would come in, though.
Icy 
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me[Andy]g Posted Mar 24, 2004
Okay, here's a complete guess that might help someone else to the answer...
McCartney has released 23 albums since the Beatles broke up.
Lennon released 6 albums from when the Beatles broke up until his death (?)
... so, add these together and you get 2 - Lennon & McCartney? Or did they release two albums together after the Beatles broke up?
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Trin Tragula Posted Mar 30, 2004
Nope.
To restate:
23+6=2
How might this make half of The Beatles rock?
Lennon & McCartney is getting there. But John Lennon and Paul McCartney would be closer still - and there's still the matter of the rock and the keys to consider.
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Coltham P. Duberhouse Posted Mar 31, 2004
'John Lennon Paul McCartney' has 23 letters in it.
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Coltham P. Duberhouse Posted Mar 31, 2004
Are the keys something to do with musical keys? Like C D E F sharp, B flat etc.
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O.L.S Whale [1-8+7+(3x7x2)=42] Quite disturbing in appearance, but harmless enough, I assure you! Posted Mar 31, 2004
Owt to do with them being bigger than jesus?
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Apr 1, 2004
I can answer this but cannot set the next question as I am at w*rk - so first in best dressed.....
Pope John XXIII (23rd)
plus
Pope Paul VI (6th)
equals
Pope John Paul II (2nd)
Ta - Da!!!
I hope that's right
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Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. Posted Apr 2, 2004
How does that make half of them rock?
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Icy North Posted Apr 2, 2004
And you'll have to forgive my ignorance here, but how do you add one pope to another to get a third? This doesn't appear to follow the fundamental axioms of mathematics .
And where do keys come in to it?
Having said that, the numbers look interesting. I hope you're right.
Icy
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Apr 2, 2004
I must have missed that part 
*crawls back into a neutral corner*
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Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. Posted Apr 2, 2004
You're doing better than us. 
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Trin Tragula Posted Apr 2, 2004
Feisor has it!
23+6=2
There have been 23 Popes called John, 6 called Paul and 2 called John Paul. This makes 'half the Beatles rock' because all Popes are, as Bishops of Rome, the successors of St Peter, a.k.a. 'the rock' (on which the church is founded, 'petrus' etc.) - the 'key' part of the Pope's title is that he is the 'holder of the keys of St Peter'
*The brief bombardment over, cleans squishy tomatoes and rotten vegetables off face and shirt*
Right Feisor - over to you
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- 1043: Trin Tragula (Mar 16, 2004)
- 1044: Trin Tragula (Mar 18, 2004)
- 1045: Icy North (Mar 19, 2004)
- 1046: Trin Tragula (Mar 24, 2004)
- 1047: me[Andy]g (Mar 24, 2004)
- 1048: Icy North (Mar 30, 2004)
- 1049: Trin Tragula (Mar 30, 2004)
- 1050: Trout Montague (Mar 31, 2004)
- 1051: Coltham P. Duberhouse (Mar 31, 2004)
- 1052: Coltham P. Duberhouse (Mar 31, 2004)
- 1053: Trin Tragula (Mar 31, 2004)
- 1054: O.L.S Whale [1-8+7+(3x7x2)=42] Quite disturbing in appearance, but harmless enough, I assure you! (Mar 31, 2004)
- 1055: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Apr 1, 2004)
- 1056: Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. (Apr 2, 2004)
- 1057: Icy North (Apr 2, 2004)
- 1058: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Apr 2, 2004)
- 1059: Jon Quixote: steaming little purple buns for tea. (Apr 2, 2004)
- 1060: Trin Tragula (Apr 2, 2004)
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