Will today be a perfect 10? [Happy 10/10/10]

Journal Star ^ | 10/10/10 | SCOTT HILYARD

[Berlin_Freeper]

[libh8er]

The real 10/10/1010 passed a 1000 years ago. This is merely 10/10/2010 which the media is trying to make a big deal out of.

[Olog-hai]

It’s a wonder that Christians haven’t gone back to the calendar that’s outlined in the Bible.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If earthly humanity survives (strains of that strange song “In the Year 2525” filter in) there will be another one of these on October 10, 2110, ten years after another Y2K-like frenzy over the computational equipment of that era which somehow will have fallen into using abbreviations without much forethought again.

[Windflier]

As I recall, a lot of folks were looking forward to 08/08/08; thinking it would be a “lucky day”.

That was my mom's birthday. Today, 10/10/10, is my brother's birthday.

[Yaelle]

I find these days kind of cool. We had 7/7/77 and each 11 years after until 9/9/99. Then two years later we had 01/01/01 and each year since then, for a couple more years, we will have dates like this. But after 12/12/12, we are done. We will have to start over with the 11-year cycle, on 2/2/22. How lucky we were to be alive during this 11-year string of one of these dates per year.

[Windflier]

"There will never be another day that matches its precise numeric properties unless a future civilization decides to scrap the whole Gregorian calender thing..."

Nonsense. 10/10/2110 will have the same uniqueness. Happens every 100 years.

[dr_lew]

10/10/10 occurred once and that was on October 10, in the year 10 of the Common Era

There never was a 10/10/10 of the "Common Era", or even Anno Domini, except in retrospect. It's like the joke about the coin from 100 B.C. ( It would be B.C.E. but they didn't know about that in those days ... Ha Ha! )

The Christian calendar wasn't established until 532 A.D.

[Windflier]

We will have to start over with the 11-year cycle, on 2/2/22.

What - are we just gonna skip 10/10/2110?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Happy Birthday to your brother!

[I see my hands]

[ScoopAmma]

Every day is perfect.

[Lazamataz]

This is NOT a perfect ten.

10/10/1010 was.

10/10/2010 is not.

[Lazamataz]

The REAL Y2K will occur on the date 1/1/4294967297, when the year cannot be represented by the 32 bit number.

Unless of course, by then, we have increased to 64 bits.

[Lazamataz]

Every day is perfect.

Optimistic bastard.

[dr_lew]

I feel a song coming on.

[Lazamataz]

And the winner ... 46 percent thought something good would happen because it's 10/10/10. Stand by for November 11 next year. All indications are it's going to be a really good day to get married.

I'm waiting for 13/13/13, myself.

[eekitsagreek]

At exactly the tenth second of the tenth minute of the tenth hour, I am going to party like it is 10/10/10!

Kinda reminds me of a joke...

A man born on May 5, 1955 turned 55 years of age on May 5, 2010. He bought some instant lottery tickets and won five bucks. Then he played 555 as the mid-day pick-3 and won even more money. Thinking that his luck would continue, he went to the track. There he saw on the fifth race, the #5 horse (named appropriately “Five Alive”) was a 55-1 longshot. He put all of his earlier winnings on that horse and guess what...?

The horse finished fifth.

[SFConservative]

Buddy of mine got married 09/09/09. Not magical, but easy to remember for sure. So the value of picking a date like that is in minimizing the risk of forgetting your anniversary and thereby avoiding major life risk. Proof: he remembered 09/09/10 so he’s off to a good start!