Pass notes is 3,000. We celebrate the informative and irreverent column and look back at some of the highlights Pass notes is 3,000. I will pause for a burst of applause and the playing of the national anthem. Thank you. At least I hope we are marking the 3,000th pass notes. The numbering has sometimes gone awry, and it is by no means certain we got it back on track. Passnotesologists at the University of Keele have pointed out that in October 1994 two pass notes (Robert De Niro and Elizabeth Maxwell) appeared on successive days with the number 511, and that No 688 was also repeated. But,