Ahem! : TLPTP : Well, I walked into that one! :-)

Jonathan : you are the winner ! :-)

The fairly perverse reasoning is as follows :

Base Number : 11² = 121 this being a number I quite admire. You can start on the left side of the equation, take the two in the exponent and sneak it b/w the two onesies => voila ! The right answer. { "not many people know that" }

Offset : I wake up on the last day of winter ( per my local time ), and when I start my car to drive to work I note the temperature ( in Celsius ) on the dashboard. That is a single ( 1 ) degree today.

Winning post # = Base + Offset = 122 

See ?????? :-0

Seriously : a while ago I had decided to award the most recent post I would view upon arising on the last day of winter. I just made the other stuff up to sound clevererever. Except for the 121 bit, it really is an ace number and IMHO deserves rather more attention than it seems to be getting these days. I don't normally worship numbers but if it was in vogue as a social trend then my vote is for 11². In my mind I at least could be the high priest of the 121 Sect. I could have a stepped pyramid somewhat like the Mayan/Aztec/Olmec/Costco/Tesco/Walmart civilisations with, you guessed it, 122 steps because you have to add another one for the stool used to get you up & into the large throne on top. Then we could start on the mass human sacrifices. Did I mention that ? Oh yes. My pet the giant dragon, chihuahua really, whose name is LargeOverCoatl would assist me here ..... muamuahuahua blargal gurgal splooge .... pardon me .... I could have a TV series, call it Lionhearted Overtly Obvious Psychotic Yobbos, and I'd stab way more people per episode than that other show ..... BTW I don't live in my car, well not strictly technically anyway .... I had a long chat with the nice policeman about that last night ..... he said if he caught me parked in front of their station again he'd thump me up, plus if I poked my tongue at him one more time he'd taser it ..... a good old Aussie copper he is, you know where you stand .... at least DownUnda you don't get shot just because you called them, take your chances with the perps I reckon .....  

Cheers, Mike.

Err. TMI ??? :-))

Cheers, Mike.

Here's the sort of pyramid I would like ( from the meso-american city of Costcotesco ) :

Cheers, Mike.