Running Numbers

A scholarly look at the digits that matter.

by Nick Norlen

4 Number of courses Old City's Fork will offer for $45 from Oct. 1 through Nov. 30 to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Why not 10 courses, Fork? What, you couldn't find enough fresh, seasonal ingredients to create a spread worthy to represent your decade of award-winning trend-settery? For(k) shame.

92 Number of kids — along with 45 adults — who participated in last year's "Help Make it Happen!" Mini Golf Tournament, the only Wellness Community of Philadelphia event organized by kids for kids. This year's Sept. 28 event will include mini golf, a driving range, dinner and an ice cream truck. Tickets are $25 for children and $35 for adults and benefit TWCP's mission of providing free programs for people affected by cancer. Call 215-879-7733 with questions, such as: Do you mean every participant gets an ice cream truck? What kind of ice cream truck? Mr. Softee? Will there be screwballs? Will the sno-cones be syruped properly or will some of the surface ice go unflavored while the bottom of the paper cone gets leaky?

100% Type of guarantee that Sheckys.com has issued that its Philly "Girls Night Out" will be your "best girl's night out of the season." The event takes place Sept. 28-29 from 5 to 10 p.m. at the 23rd Street Armory and includes "endless fashion, glamour, beauty, shopping, cocktails, freebies and fun." General admission is $10; $25 gets you the "famous, overstuffed Shecky's Goodie Bag." For maximum fun, read this entry aloud and with air quotes where appropriate.

576 My all-time highest Scrabble score, if my memory serves me correctly. See if you can muster half that during the second season of "Philly Plays Scrabble," which drew more than 1,000 people last year. The program runs at all 16 Philadelphia Public Library branches throughout October on Mondays from 4 to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. I'll be there. Lurking in the shadows. Waiting to see who among you is worthy.

$100,000 Amount of prize money that will be awarded to the Bono-founded charity DATA — Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa — when he receives the National Constitution Center's 2007 Liberty Medal Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. at the center. Combating poverty and disease in Africa is great and all, but let's please make sure that clown doesn't blow the cash on more solid platinum sunglasses and stubble implants.

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