The 2 Stooges? 11 Angry Men? More and More, Less Is Less

Everything is shrinking these days, worth less, diminished. A million bucks used to be worth, well, a million bucks. Today we pay more and get less. We live larger but feel smaller. We must face facts, my friends: Less is less.

Now, with belts tightened and the notion of a nest egg tantamount to some psychotic, hallucinatory delusion, let us pause to think of how inflation might affect some of the numbers we have associated with some of our cherished favorites.

What might their equivalents be today in light of inflation?

1. 2 Coins in the Fountain
2. The 2 Stooges
3. Positively 3rd Street
4. Ali Baba and the 39 Thieves
5. Goldilocks and the 2 Bears
6. Chanel No. 4
7. Santa and 8 Reindeer
8. Snow White and the 6 Dwarves
9. The 38 Steps
10. The Three Tops
11. 2 Little Piggies
12. 9 Little Indians
13. The 7 Days of Hanukkah, the 11 Days of Christmas
14. 100 Dalmatians
15. The Six Percent Solution
16. Catch-21
17. The Postman Always Rings Once
18. The 2 Musketeers
19. 3 Weddings and 0 Funerals
20. Slaughterhouse-Four
21. The Magnificent Six
22. Love Potion #8
23. 11 Angry Men
24. The Dirty Half-Dozen
25. Wheatfield With Crow, by Vincent van Gogh
26. 99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall
27. Stalag 16
28. How To Marry a... Man With A Couple Of Bucks
29. When I'm 63
30. 18th Nervous Breakdown
31. 49 Ways To Leave Your Lover
32. Mila 17
33. The 11:59 Train to Georgia
34. 76 Sunset Strip
35. 999 Clowns
36. 19,999 Leagues Under the Sea
37. Route 65
38. Ménage à deux
39. 2 Days of the Condor
40. None Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
41. U-1
42. Dinner At 7:59
43. Cuatro de Mayo
44. 9,999 Maniacs
45. Fellini's 8 1/3
46. Around The World In 79 Days
47. The Next to Last Supper, by Leonardo Da Vinci
48. This list (There were originally 49)

Comments

[rtolmach]

Does it all have to be numerical?

How about:

"Foreplay and the City"
"Caine Arbitration"
"Mission Difficult"

[rtolmach]

As I scrolled the list, I knew just the quip to add -- but you beat me to it with "48. This list (There were originally 49)." So I have nothing to add.

[bonbk]

5 brides for 7 brothers
Making out in the City
7 Men Out
Fahrenheit 450
The Jackson 4

Clver and fun post Erica! Thank You.

[MTGradwell]

The Dirty Eleven, 98 red balloons, 75 trombones, 9 green bottles, Six Samurai, 11 monkeys, in the year 2928, The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13.74, .....

[MTGradwell]

Oops, that should have been in the year 2524. Anyway, since there's a good chance that the future for us will hold deflation rather than inflation, maybe we should be looking forward to films like The Dirty Baker's Dozen.

[go]

For what is a man unprofited, if he shall lose the whole world and lose his own soul?

[Vickster]

Here's a few more:

8 Lives
The Two Faces Of Eve
2000, A Space Odyssey
The Good And The Ugly
6 Deadly Sins
A Tale of One City
One Bourbon And One Beer

As always, Erica, I love your post!