In the beginning was the Number 1.

This was followed, in short order, by the numbers 2, 3, and 4. Then came 6. It was premature and had to go back to where it came from in order for the number 5 to take it's place.

The story of Numbers is a long and fascinating one, and I highly recommend it to anyone who relates more to digits then they do to, say, people.

In the meantime, here is an exhaustive list of all the things I could find out about the Number 1, for you who have always wondered about it.

1. the number of " rings to rule them all.”

2. the number of times you can break an egg

3. the number of nations "under God, indivisible..."

4. the number of eyes on a Cyclops

5. the number of books by Harper Lee

6. the number of thumbs on your right hand

7. the number of colors in the flag of Libya

8. the number of wheels on a unicycle

9. the number of channels on the first television set

10. the number of times you can be born

11. the number of letters in the word 'a'

12. the number of times you can jump off the Empire State Building

13. the number of animals that are left before a species becomes extinct

14. the number of hit songs by Vince Martin and the Tarriers

15. the number that God is in the 'Shema' of Israel

16. the number of ways you can pronounce 'eggplant'

17. the number of biological mothers you can have

18. the number of times you can be tried for the same crime

19. the number of winners in the Preakness

20. the number of ingredients to make ice cubes

21. the number of times “Jesus wept.”

22. the number of Tigers in the Woods (Tiger Woods)

23. the number of candidates running for office in a dictatorship

24. the number of cabooses on a train

25. the number of 'unforgiveable sins'

26. the number of players competing in solitaire

27, the number of exits in a maze

28. the number of jokers in a pack

29. the year of Adam's birth

30. the number of arms on this bandit

31. the number of companies in a monopoly

32. the number of sexes in a lesbian bar

33. the number of uses for a guillotine

34. the number of horns on a unicorn

35. the number of holes in a doughnut

36. the number of actors it takes to be Jekyll and Hyde

37.the number of eyes in CBS

38. the number of 'Mobys' named 'Dick'

39. the number of times you can pick 'The Lady or the Tiger'

40. the number of steps to begin a journey of a thousand miles

41. the number of subjects in a self-portrait

42. the number of points on a pyramid

43. the cost of a bang for a buck

44. the number of Wizards in Oz

45. the number of hermits in a hermitage

46. the number of Jacks in a box

47. the number of places you can be at once

48. the number of brides at the altar

49. the number of partridges in a pear tree

50. the first number of this list