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 a 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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The doubling theme carries over into an Elvish name game for “oo-ee”, the Witch Doctor sounds you linked to 51.
I recognized it as possibly an Elvish word: Ui (pronounced oo-ee). Looking it up, I noted it means things like “No, not to be, it is not” etc, potentially linking to the Zero/ Nobody theme. But it also means “twi, two”, as in twin, double, etc.
I also realized later today where I had seen 51 and 50 together since you linked them here.
Van Halen’s 5150 album. That album is interesting since it is Sammy Hagar’s first album with the band, and there is a backstory there and some symbolism I touched on in my blog. This included the song “Love walks in”, and a reference to aliens and the earth returning to what it had been before.
5150 gets its name from the legal code which allows people deemed crazy or mad to be detained involuntarily for 72 hours. This is, in my opinion, a direct and obvious link to the King Noah and Abinadi story, which I have gone back to repeatedly and as you know even tied to the Pharazon story arc potentially. Noah declared Abinadi “mad” and then involuntarily detained him for his crazy words and being deemed a danger to the people. That detainment was for 3 days/ 72 hours. In other words, Noah quite literally 5150’d Abinadi.
Another link between 51 and 50 is that cartoon you mentioned that has a meerkat character named Timon (anTIMONy).
Yesterday, in a business setting, I heard the following conversation: "Isn't Thompson going to transfer [out]?" "Didn't he transfer in?" So, a double transfer.
Re: 5150. On their 1981 album "The Mob Rules", Black Sabbath included a track entitled E5150.
'This short instrumental before the title track has a ‘hidden’ meaning in the title. The numbers are based on the Roman numerals. In Roman numerals, “V” represents 5, “I” represents 1 and “L” represents 50. Add the letter E in the front and you’ll have the word evil.'
https://genius.com/Black-sabbath-e5150-lyrics
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