This is a post in ode to the #3. It is a very versatile number. Lets look at famous uses of the #3, and maybe you can come up with your own.
- The 3 amigos.
- Einstein’s Three Rules of Work: 1) Out of clutter find simplicity; 2) From discord find harmony; 3) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- The movie Trilogy (LOTR, Star Wars, Spider-man, Bourne.., etc)
- March 3rd (3-03)
- e3 expo
- Easy as 1,2,3..
- Of course 3 is used in marketing
- 3 strikes you’re out
- The triangle (one of the strongest architectural shapes)
- 3D
- The holy trinity
- The first Nuclear test was named Trinity
- It is great for using in comparison of two things
- The 3 branches of the US government, even if 2 are useless…
- Best two out of 3
- Rock, Paper, Scissors
- The 3 stooges………
- Name your band with it
- The founder of twitter likes it.
- Kermit the frog weighs in on blogging.
- 3 letter .tlds
- Protons, Neutrons, and electrons
- The Primary colors
- 3 is the first odd prime number
- Orion’s belt has 3 stars
- Earth is the 3rd planet from the sun
- Freud: Ego, super-ego, and id
- Cerberus the 3 headed dog
- The 3 wise men
- The 3 holy cities of Islam: Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem
- Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals
- Reading, Writing and R’itmetic
- 3 is pretty close to pi
- The hat-trick (sports/hockey)
- The 3 letter acronym (XML,PHP,NBA,NFL,USA,MBJ)
- The “3rd eye” (intuition)
- This page where much of these tidbits came from
- Muhammad Ali was 6 foot 3
- Newtons 3 laws of motion
- Morning, noon, and night
- The infamous 3 toe’d sloth (slowest land animal)
- Three’s company
- The ie 3pixel gap bug
- China’a 3 gorges dam
- The Impending WWIII
- The boy scouts dig it
- “threesomes”
- The fabled 3 dollar bill
- The 3 tenors
- Photography: the rule of 3rds
- Three card monty (not to be confused with the full monty)
- Tantek thinks in 3’s
- And of course the The Three Musketeers
Notable 2’s and 4’s that just don’t quite get the same love as 3.
- black and white
- the square
- being “2″ faced
- 2D (boring)
- 4D (too out there for most people)
- the quartet
- 4×4
- The duplex and fourplex (housing)
- Noah’s Ark: Animals 2×2
- In rugby, the #2 is worn by a hooker
- Twins
- The Audi quattro
- The 4 horsemen
- 4 letter words
- 4 seasons
- The “fab” four
I bet you could group just about anything in 3’s. So remember, make sure you use the #3 in your everyday life as much as you can, everybody is doing it. Heck I think I might just move to the number 7842 as 3 is getting so played out, but I wouldn’t make a big deal about it.
3 is preferred of course, but when presented with an oddball, 3 can make room for a 4th
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