The image is from a classic Sesame Street animation.

https://youtu.be/mTr_HS_O4Ek

Sesame Street: Pinball Animation Countdown Compilation

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@dgar

Unsure if you know this already, but the singers from this Sesame Street clip are The Pointer Sisters, who had been on tour as a gospel group along the East coast, when Herbie Hancock, who was arranging the music, called them in for a single session between shows. He was so impressed with their versatility and improvisational skills that word got out, and eventually they were given a chance to perform material that was more AOR radio-ready.

@KCDOZ

I did not know. Thank you for sharing. 😁

@dgar @KCDOZ I'm curious as to why they count to 12 of all things.

The comparable show back when I was a kid was "Fem myror Àr fler Àn fyra elefanter" and in it they counted to 20, which seems a lot more logical?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUq9exx602E

Fem myror - Elefanten rÀknar till 20

Fem myror Àr fler Àn fyra elefanter. NÀr elefanten rÀknar till 20 och det tar extra tid för honom att fÄ fram siffran 14.

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@KCDOZ @loke

Twelve was once considered to be a magical number. There’s twelve months in a year. Twelve disciples in the Gospels. Twelve inches to a foot. Twelve hours on a clock. Twelve eggs in a carton. The magic comes from its useful divisibility in trades and markets, something traders have known since numbers were first invented. One could buy a dozen bread rolls and divide them between two, three, four, or six people.

The magic has been depreciated somewhat by a decimal and digital culture we have today.

@dgar @KCDOZ @loke you could have said that the magic had been decimated 😜
@dgar @KCDOZ @loke My fave dozen is 13, the baker’s dozen.
@dgar @KCDOZ 12 inches in a foot. Hmm, I guess that explains it. It's imperial units making the US weird again. đŸ« 
@loke @dgar where is your metric clock and calendar? Damn, looks like Dgar just checkmated your ass. But seriously, he did a damn good job on his 12 breakdown.
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Don’t get me started on 36
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@dgar @KCDOZ @loke
there used to be 10 months in a year in the Western calendar
Septem =7, Octo= 8, Novem = 9, Decem = 10
"ber" is thought to have been derived from an adjectival ending.
@dgar @KCDOZ @loke I believe that goes back to Sumeria where they used both Base 12 (count finger segments, 3 per finger) and Base 60 counting systems, instead of 10.
@dgar one theory is that a group that counted base 5 merged with a group that counted base 12 and they ended up using 60. https://www.thoughtco.com/why-we-still-use-babylonian-mathematics-116679
Why the 4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Math Base 60 System Is Still Used

Babylonian mathematics relied on a base 60, or sexagesimal numeric system, that proved so effective it continues to be used 4,000 years later.

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