In Popular Culture
- In art, 1000 paintings has been a popular internet art project by Swiss artist Sala
- A grand is a slang term for one thousand units of a given currency. Several grand can be shortened to Gs.
- Especially in the United States, the gambling community often refers to denominations of $1000 as dimes
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- According to an ancient Japanese legend, anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane.
- In the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life a doctor (John Cleese) is attempting to throw beer mats through the crooked arm of another (Graham Chapman). After the first beer mat is shown going through the crooked arm, the second doctor exclaims, "One thousand and eight!"
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Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or culture:
“If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.”
—Kelvin MacKenzie (b. 1946)
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”
—Midge Decter (b. 1927)