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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: Fractal Trader
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:39:40 AM PST
by
loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
To: Fractal Trader
But not in the UK, where today is 02/01/2010.
To: Fractal Trader
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:44:55 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
("Endeavor to persevere...")
To: proxy_user
Monty Python (which features Michael PALIN)
from Dead Parrot sketch
Shopkeeper: It was a pun.
Praline: A pun?
Shopkeeper: No, no, not a pun, no. What’s the other thing which reads the same backwards as forwards?
Praline: A palindrome?
Shopkeeper: Yeah, yeah.
Praline: It’s not a palindrome. The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob. It don’t work.
To: Fractal Trader
I graduated from high school on one of rare play dough days when the number is the same when viewed upside down.
1961
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:45:55 AM PST
by
Young Werther
( ("Quae Cum Ita Sunt - Julius Caesar "Since these things are so!"))
To: Fractal Trader
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:46:26 AM PST
by
fhayek
To: Fractal Trader
At first...I thought this was another article about Sarah PALIN!
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:48:44 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Become a Precinct Committee Person/Officer....in the GOP...or do NOT complain.)
To: Fractal Trader
>>Aziz Inan, a University of Portland electrical engineering professor, has been studying this phenomenon and speaks with great enthusiasm
This is about as exciting as writing a book on the “multiply by 9” phenonenom. Must be great to be a university professor with nothing but free time on your hands.
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:51:12 AM PST
by
Bryanw92
(Imagine a day when the politicians have to hold a bake sale to pay for votes!)
To: Fractal Trader
Aziz Inan, a University of Portland electrical engineering professor, has been studying this phenomenon and speaks with great enthusiasm as he describes the history of palindrome dates. Probably the only dates the good professor is familiar with.
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:51:40 AM PST
by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
To: Bryanw92
I sure hope that he has not received a government grant to study this.
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:52:32 AM PST
by
fhayek
To: Charles Martel
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:53:14 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM where are you?)
To: Skooz
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:53:54 AM PST
by
Dahoser
(Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
To: Fractal Trader
Compare and contrast to the anti-Palin drone, which is bass-ackwards no matter which way you look at it.
To: Fractal Trader
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:57:42 AM PST
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: fhayek
A university professor doesn’t “speak with enthusiam” about anything except anti-Americanism or things that they want grant money for!
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:57:42 AM PST
by
Bryanw92
(Imagine a day when the politicians have to hold a bake sale to pay for votes!)
To: Bryanw92
One does get a sense that the good professor dropped the “e” off his surname.
To: Fractal Trader
Before 2001, he excitedly pointed out in an interview yesterday, the most recent was in 1308, since days of the month never exceed 31. 1308 doesnt come out right. Heres what I come up with:
Last palindrome of last millennium:
09/31/1390
First palindromes of this millennium:
10/02/2001
01/02/2010
11/02/2011
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posted on
01/02/2010 8:59:24 AM PST
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Jim W N
To: Fractal Trader
“who is working on academic papers on the subject.”
“An academic paper?” Who cares?
To: Fractal Trader
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posted on
01/02/2010 9:07:32 AM PST
by
LiberConservative
(Global Warming/'Climate Change": Biggest Scam in History)
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