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Blog Entry: 69, dude! This is a single entry from my blog. You can also view the main blog page, which has additional links and options, including my contact information, links to my home page/other sites, etc

Blog Entry: 69, dude!

2005 September 25, 01:04 PM

The program I use to post blog entries returns the "id" of the last entry posted, and the id of the last post was 69, which, of course, got me thinking. I believe the sexual reference to 69 is French. I used to think the French word for 69 was "trois-vingt-neuf", meaning "three twenties and nine", since the French count by 20s (that's where we get our word "score" from -- "4 score and 7 years" is 87 years). So, I thought 69 was actually "six neuf", French for "six nine", not "sixty-nine" (to us smartass holier-than-thou nitpickers, that's a big difference), since "six neuf" sounds like six and nine next to each other, while trois-vingt-neuf doesn't. As it turns out, I was wrong (the whole "counting by 20s" thing starts at 80). The French word for 69 is "soixante-neuf". This sounds enough like six and nine next to each other, that I'm guessing the French word for 69 is also 69, not "six nine". And, yes, I've just created a blog entry on oral sex that somehow manages to be incredibly dull!