Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "How do you blame the person running the numbers if they have no idea what the numbers are for? By asking them why they never asked what the numbers were for."

• How to determine whether a number is divisible by 9
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• how to determine whether a number is divisible by n
• silence them by numbers
• How to find out if ANY number is divisible by eleven
• You can learn a lot about a person by how they act at an Airport
• How to determine whether a number is divisible by 0
• How to determine whether a number is divisible by 4
• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• How to multiply two digit numbers by 11 in your head
• How to determine whether a number is divisible by 3
• How to determine whether a number is divisible by 7
• The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• You see them too; Golden butterflies, countless in number
• How Gauss quickly added up the numbers 1 to 100
• How to recover a Sun Netra X1 with a Corrupted Disk Label - Bad Magic Number error
• Cake By Numbers: A Birthday Noder Party Meet in Swindon
• I was into them after they were hip
• How to solve any number sequence puzzle
• The four problems of surgery, how they were overcome, and when
• matrix multiplication by a scalar
• How to beat someone at "pick a number"
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• How to determine oxidation numbers
• You, standing
• How to reduce the number of smokers
• No One Ever Listens Do They, 'Lyssa
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• Paint by Numbers
• A number is an idea
• Don't ever lie. If you lie to your friends, they won't trust you, and you'll have nothing, and you'll never be safe.
• They have no bones.
• No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
• Painting by Numbers
• We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers.
• How to find the nth term of a number sequence
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
• how to square a number in your head
• Number of Sperm released by the common male animal per ejaculation
• Murder by Numbers
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
• Three Golden-Tongued Knights, Whom No One Could Refuse Whatsoever They Might Ask
• Blessed and cursed by numbers
• The number you have dialed is imaginary
• The Who By Numbers
• Googlewhacking to estimate the number of pages indexed by Google
• Things never were what they used to be
• Software By Numbers
• I know them by the trucks they drive, the names they call each other, the tattoos on hot, shirtless days, the music they blast after lunch, to get through the rest of the day.
• How to determine whether a number is even or odd in any base
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• How to turn any number into a 9
• how to square numbers near fifty
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
• how do they feel, those unblinking eyes?
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• Wedding rings and half-born ideas you lose down the toilet. Why do they go?
• no exact amounts since I have no idea how many people you feed
• just because they never bothered to really do
• Shall I tell you stories of other stars: stars that you love, that deserve your love. Stars that do not disappoint, and disgust, and disgrace your love. Oh, I have hope they exist for your sake!
• order by numbers
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• Answer to the sample paint by numbers puzzle
• Number of OS Vulnerabilities by Year
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• We don't have time. Not like they do.
• Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?
• Drowning by Numbers
• Design by Numbers
• Design by Numbers language reference
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces
• The set of decimal representations of numbers divisible by 17 is regular
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• Count Dracula has dyscalcula. He mumbles numbers and never slumbers.
• proof that the field of real numbers has no non-trivial automorphisms
• the field of real numbers has no non-trivial automorphisms
• If we ran this back an infinite number of times across infinite existences our souls would still never connect, so don't regret.
• Proof that there is no largest prime number
• Number of copyright infringing downloads prevented by ISP-blocking The Pirate Bay
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
• Paper, rock, scissors. They all have their pros and cons.
• How can I need kisses I have never felt?
• When they say "Gotta have it!" they mean it!
• I have no scars. I have never loved.
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• People who think they have to double-click everything
• Never imagine you have any idea what you're attracted to
• They Have a Word for It
• They are angry and they have been lied to
• People want what they cannot have
• Strange man makes permanent visit
• A regiment of intellectual ghosts walks the streets of this working class city, casting dignity, reason, and courage into each soul they pass by
• I have no idea!! (user)
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• I have never held such sins against them the way that I hold them against you
• They say that I have the best ass below 14th Street
• You stole what they would have given you
• By the way, those chairs, they spin
• I have to check and see if they wear panties
• They must have faces
• Buying things just because they have cool packaging
• from where I stand I can see they have already won
• They could have saved Kevin
• They have taken enough
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed 'em?
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• They have a trendy name for every different kind of fucked up.
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• Wishfully think they have souls.

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