In my April 2021 post "Tintin, St. George, and, uh, lots of other things!", I mention something that was picked up on by Internet synchromystics back in 2011, when the movies 50/50 and The Adventures of Tintin were released around the same time: Since 50 is the atomic number of tin, Tintin corresponds to 50/50.
In that post, I also bring in the chemical symbol Sn, noting that Tintin's dog is called Snowy and that the movie released the next year, Lockout, has a character whose name is said in one scene to be Snow Snow.
Now we're focused on the next element in the periodic table -- antimony, atomic number 51. As I noted in "May 20 anniversaries: Section 51 and Levi Strauss blue jeans," one of the reasons 51 is significant is that Section 51 of the Doctrine and Covenants was, uniquely, received in the tiny town of Thompson, Geauga County, Ohio -- which was my mailing address when I lived in Ohio, even though I was technically located in Leroy Township, Lake County.
After 50/50, or Tintin, comes 51/51. Since the number 51 has been connected to the name Thompson, the Tintin link is obvious:
These, for the philistines in the audience, are a pair of recurring characters in the Tintin books: two nearly identical detectives called Thomson and Thompson.
Thinking of Tintin's dog, Snowy, I thought there might be a connection to "Oo-ee-oo-ah-ah." That post juxtaposes the title chant, from the song "Witch Doctor," with a Seinfeld scene in which George, having been given the nickname Koko after the famous gorilla, receives a jersey numbered 00, which he says means "oo, as in oo-oo-ah-ah." That post also mentions that the Chinese number five, also pronounced "oo," is usually transliterated as wu, with the initial w having no sound. All of this seemed related to Snowy's distinctive barking sound, "Wooah!" As I kid, I always mentally pronounced it as "Whoa!" but later I realized it was probably supposed to be a two-syllable "Woo-ah!"
I did an image search, and the first picture I found that had Snowy saying "Wooah!" also had a gorilla -- the very animal that inspired George Costanza's "oo-oo-ah-ah" jersey.
The scientific name of this animal is Gorilla gorilla, so we're still on the doubling theme.




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