quinze

“quinze” est “15” en francais

1.  before 16 but after 14

 

2.  15 cents is not enough to get a gumball in a 25 cent gumball machine, nor is it  

     the way to pronounce correctly the name of famous rapper “50 cent”

 

3.  in reference to a 15 year old hispanic girl’s birthday or Fiesta de Quinceañera

 

4.  congrats, you are old enough to have sex in denmark & sweden

 

5.  a crystal anniversary for the rare circumstance that the institution of marriage

     has worked (or at least each individual has not been caught cheating yet)

 

6.  in the english language, it is the smallest number to have 7 letters in its name

     when spelled out f-i-f-t-e-e-n   

 

7.  15 mph is the average speed that a penguin swims (when not angry or horny, you

     know how those penguins can get)

 

8.  “the devil’s card” in a tarot deck (and if you don’t believe in the devil, as i, well

     then, for the both of us it is just the 15^th card)

 

9.  the amount of men on a dead man’s chest as found in a lyric of a sea shanty in

     robert louis stevenson’s novel, Treasure Island

 

10.  the amount of fingers that Li Jinpeng had been born with, prior to his

       operation at age 6, which removed 5 of the 15 in late may of 2010

 

11.  1 ton of number 9 coal less than Tennessee Ernie Ford loaded in his song

       “sixteen tons,” still owing his “soul” to the company store

 

12.  if you caught the one-armed-man & you are both standing alone in an elevator

      on the way up to book him, this is the number of fingers between the two of

      you

 

13.  the minimum time a human head stays conscious after being decapitated (15

       seconds)---time enough to shout curse your body for letting your head pop off

       so quick

  

14.  the longest word without repeating a letter contains this amount of letters

       (english)

 

15.  the amount of seconds it took you to skim this list quickly, decide that it’s not

       poetry & get just a teeny-tiny itty-bitty pissed that the actual word wasn’t

       referenced in number 14