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Umm...why 57?

posted 17 years ago by atac57
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I know it was Snipes' characters seat number, but... why 57? Just a random number?

[–] littlemilkjug-1 17 years ago

It wasn't his seat number...the stewardess was doing a pre-flight head count and he just happened to be number 57.

[–] stevenackerman69 17 years ago

I think because that was his seat number. They just happened to choose that number because it sounded right, I guess. What number would you want-100?

[–] atac57 17 years ago

I guess 57 sounds cool, thats why its at the end of my username!! XD

[–] TheDrizzle77 17 years ago

Passenger 69? The porn parody-- doesn't sound good.
Passenger 21 rolls off the tongue nice. But out of the 100 numbers I'd say 57 ranks up there as the best.

[–] germite 16 years ago

It's a tribute to Irving "Chuckles" Heinz, the man who invented ketchup in the late 1800s. The copious use of ketchup in this movie is, to me, the most obvious tip-off of this.

"Let's go get sushi ... and not pay."

[–] shawnDW 16 years ago

i notice how the number 57 appears in so much stuff...i wonder why 57 is the number fore verything

[–] emperor_bender 16 years ago

Because there are really 57 states in the USA but they only want you to know about 50