Talk:Mythical number

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 3 May 2007. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

87.2% of all statistics quoted in arguments are simply made up. Michael Hardy 03:32, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

including the above statistic. (sorry could not resist). --Salix alba (talk) 11:00, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
I think you'll find that was the whole point of the original remark. Incidentally, does anyone know who first said it? I've seen it attributed to Spike Milligan and Vic Reeves (allowing for the number not always being the same). Jon Rob 15:26, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

I'm still a bit concerned about this page being encyclopedic enough. I changed the reference to what I think is a clearly better one, and it has a bit on two other possibly viable references from 1971 and 1984. Those might be worth tracking down and using. FrozenPurpleCube 16:06, 2 May 2007 (UTC)