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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Mon Mar 2, 2015, 06:14 PM Mar 2015

I'll bet Spock knew how many holes it took to fill the Albert Hall, and a bunch of other cool shit.

Internet has been down at the house and I have been going to the Library for WiFi, so news of Leonard's passing came to me a bit late. No TV either, just pretty much shut off from anything resembling "news."

What an original, what an icon. Icons aren't supposed to die, but somehow they do, reminding us of our own mortality.

R.I.P., Spock.

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I'll bet Spock knew how many holes it took to fill the Albert Hall, and a bunch of other cool shit. (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2015 OP

4000. drm604 Mar 2015 #1

I think the 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire were potholes, Art_from_Ark Mar 2015 #2

That's correct, but those were the holes being referenced. drm604 Mar 2015 #5

So that's the rest of the story Art_from_Ark Mar 2015 #6

I was really pleased to learn that. drm604 Mar 2015 #7

... cwydro Mar 2015 #4

Yes, like how many licks it takes whistler162 Mar 2015 #3

Spock knew how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, too. kwassa Mar 2015 #8

He knew who, who, who wrote the book of love. KamaAina Mar 2015 #9

drm604

(16,230 posts)

1. 4000.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Mar 2, 2015, 06:29 PM

Mar 2015

It's in the lyrics. "4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire".

That's also what Google says: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+holes+does+it+take+to+fill+the+albert+hall

Spock probably also knew who the walrus was, whether or not Paul was dead, and whether or not "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was really about LSD.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

2. I think the 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire were potholes,

Reply to drm604 (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 2, 2015, 09:10 PM

Mar 2015

at least, according to my memory of the documentary "It Was 20 Years Ago Today" (which was broadcast on PBS 20 years after the debut of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band).

drm604

(16,230 posts)

5. That's correct, but those were the holes being referenced.

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 03:27 AM

Mar 2015

It's figurative, not literal. The BBC used to use the Albert Hall to illustrate large amounts of something such as crowd size. They'd say things like "there were enough demonstrators to fill two Albert Halls". Lennon needed a line in the lyrics and this BBC usage of the Albert Hall came to mind.