Good Things Come in Threes November 17, 1999February 13, 2017 From Toby Gottfried: Apropos your comments about “threes,” it may be hard to find, but I have a book from my college days which talks about this. It’s an anthropology anthology (that’s not a typo) from 1968 called Every Man His Way, edited by Alan Dundes. Starting on p 401 is an essay by Prof Dundes called “The Number Three in American Culture” which discusses its pervasiveness in depth. Consider: small/medium/large past/present/future yesterday/today/tomorrow up/down/sideways one,two,three. GO learn your A B C ‘s NBC/ABC/CBS (Three networks, three letters each) Auto Industry: The Big Three (well, for a long time) Third Party Candidates Tic-Tac-Toe Minister/Priest/Rabbi jokes Blondes/Brunettes/Redheads Baseball: three strikes, three bases, three outfielders et cetera et cetera et cetera His list of references is stretched over . . . three pages. Yada, yada, yada . . . blah, blah, blah. (Actually: Thank you, thank you, thank you.)