Later, it occurred to me to check if any interesting words added up to 51 in S:E:G: (Simple English Gematria, where A = 1 and Z = 26). The quickest way to look that sort of thing up is on gematrix.org. Its default "English gematria" is S:E:G multiplied by 6 (A = 6 and Z = 156), so if you want to look up a particular S:E:G: value, you need to multiply it by 6. I mentally calculated that to get results for 51, I would need to search for 306. Wait, that number seemed familiar. I checked, and yes, my "Area 51" shipping label from "Rumi, Wanderjahre, Area 51, 666 phone numbers" includes 306 as well as 51.
When I checked Gematrix, I was amused to see Batman -- the word I had randomly thought of as an example of something obviously meaningless -- near the top of the list:
It is as the atomic number of antimony that 51 entered -- or, rather, was deliberately shoehorned into -- the sync stream. That word also has some interesting gematria results:
I then went to the bank to use the ATM, where I saw this:
It's a "bat man," and written on his bat is "Anti-Money Laundering." The similarity to antimony and Ant Money is obvious.




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Watching a Downton Abbey rerun this past Sunday, I heard allusion made to someone's "batman" (pronounced "BAT-men"). I understood it to mean right-hand man, sort of like wingman. Merriam-Webster defines it as "an orderly of a British military officer", which in the episode was true sensu stricto. I thought it might be a reference to a position in cricket, but Merriam-Webster didn't bear that out ("French bât packsaddle").
I believe Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred has been referred to as "Batman's batman."
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