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What’s so special about today? It’s a palindrome [Same Forward and Backward]
Boston Globe ^
| 2 January 2010
| Emma Stickgold
Posted on 01/02/2010 8:37:01 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: Young Werther
I was around back then too and still remember this ...
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:08:54 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Fractal Trader
Racecar
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:10:43 AM PST
by
4yearlurker
("Damn the King and double damn him!")
To: Fractal Trader
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:12:08 AM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Jim 0216; Fractal Trader
Correction:
I'm figuring the last palindrome of last millennium:
08/31/1380
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:14:50 AM PST
by
Jim W N
To: Young Werther
I graduated from high school on one of rare play dough days when the number is the same when viewed upside down: 1961 You'll have to wait until 6009 to do that again.
To: Charles Martel
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:16:19 AM PST
by
XEHRpa
To: Fractal Trader
Race Car backwards is....Race Car
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:18:10 AM PST
by
peteram
To: oh8eleven
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:23:40 AM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
To: Young Werther
This made the cover of MAD magazine, IIRC. Last upside-down year ‘til 6009 !
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:32:07 AM PST
by
dr_lew
To: peteram
Doc,note,I dissent.A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:33:55 AM PST
by
fish hawk
(It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
To: dr_lew; oh8eleven
Geez. You gotta move fast around here!
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:34:14 AM PST
by
dr_lew
To: Jim 0216
Doesn’t September only have 30 days?
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:37:01 AM PST
by
Elixis
To: Fractal Trader
When my sister was little we would tease her, “Anna is a palindrome, Anna is a palindrome.” She would cry and run to my Mom and tell her we were teasing her.
We would reply that technically we weren’t teasing her, Anna really is a palindrome. My Mom never thought it was funny.
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:40:46 AM PST
by
TriGirl
(Lurking for 7 years!!!!!)
To: Fractal Trader
Oh boy! Let’s all CELEBRATE. Let’s all get drunk and act like idiots again—quick, to the Hallmark Store!
But srsly, who gives an actual crap? Dates are completely arbitrary.
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:42:01 AM PST
by
j-damn
To: oh8eleven
I started reading MAD at Issue 1. when I went off to college in the fall of 1961 I wrapped all my comics and MAD magazines and put them in the attic. I forgot about them till I entered the Air Force and became interested in antiques.
I was stationed in Texas and started collecting kerosene lamps and old furniture. At an collectible fair I saw what old comics and magazines were worth. I returned home on leave with dollar signs in my eyes. Alas Dad had cleaned out the attic while installing new insallation and tossed my books. Darn!
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:49:04 AM PST
by
Young Werther
( ("Quae Cum Ita Sunt - Julius Caesar "Since these things are so!"))
To: Young Werther
Alas Dad had cleaned out the attic ...
I think that's a common experience for many of our generation.
I grew up in the NYC area when Willie, Mickey and the Duke were roaming their respective center fields. I had shoe boxes filled with their baseball cards.
In 1966 I went off to Parris Island and my card collection went off to the landfill (sigh).
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:57:53 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Elixis
Right - I re-figured it to 08/31/1380.
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posted on
01/02/2010 10:00:40 AM PST
by
Jim W N
To: Fractal Trader
Only works with a leading zero which are useless anywhere but on forms.
Sex at noon taxes.
Yo, banana boy.
Lager, sir, is regal.
The new O. J. Simpson theme park...DNA Land
Do geese see God?
Adios, Ida.
From “The Ballad of Palindrome” by Riders in the Sky.
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posted on
01/02/2010 10:01:59 AM PST
by
Southern Partisan
(One issue voter...and it ain't abortion.)
To: Fractal Trader
1-1-11, 11-1-11 11-11-11, 3 dates that are all ones in 2011, if you drop the 20.
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posted on
01/02/2010 10:03:02 AM PST
by
Waco
(Never have so many strove so hard to commit treason.)
To: Southern Partisan
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posted on
01/02/2010 10:04:30 AM PST
by
Southern Partisan
(One issue voter...and it ain't abortion.)
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