Posted on 10/09/2010 11:48:22 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Today's date is October 10, 2010, better known by its check-writing, time-card signing nickname as 10/10/10.
Think about it.
There will never be another day that matches its precise numeric properties unless a future civilization decides to scrap the whole Gregorian calender thing (like that's going to happen) and starts counting days from scratch. So it follows that today will be something special indeed, because special things happen on days marked by numbers that sequence in an interesting pattern. Who can forget, for instance, where they were and what they were doing on 01/01/01.
Wait. What? That's not true?
"It's not 10/10/10 (on Sunday)," said Gene Collins, a Peoria resident knowledgeable in numerology, the study of the meaning of numbers. "You just can't ignore the 2 in 2010. 10/10/10 occurred once and that was on October 10, in the year 10 of the Common Era."
Spoil sport. Besides tell the massive numbers of brides and grooms who selected this day as their wedding day that there's nothing special about 10/10/10.
"I have a funny thing about numbers," said Jamie Leigh Rogers, 28, of Peoria, who marries Israel Agront, 38, also of Peoria, at the Shore Acres clubhouse in Chillicothe on Sunday. "I need them to be in order to feel completely comfortable. We got engaged last November and looked at some numbers"
Agront picked 10/10/10.
"He picked it because it'll be easy to remember," she said. "I like it because it looks cool."
Lisa Wahl, the banquet manager at Kickapoo Creek Winery, said the 10/10/10 date got snatched real early in the calendar year, even though it falls on a Sunday, an atypical day for a wedding ceremony.
"We got a ton of calls for that day that we had to turn away," she said. "It's a numbers game. Brides like the way the number looks on invitations and other reasons."
There was no second date considered for the wedding day of Jared Williams, 23, of Delavan and Ciara Mowder, 22, also of Delavan. The date is tattooed across his chest. The couple live a straight edge punk lifestyle - no alcohol, no drugs, no promiscuous sex all lived out to a crazy loud punk rock soundtrack - and the symbol for the subculture is "XXX." 10/10/10 in Roman numerals.
Just go with it people.
"He picked the date even before we were engaged," she said. "He calls it the most straight edge day in the world."
The couple are getting married at the Riverside Community Church in Peoria.
"He bought me a little ankle bracelet at Cornerstone with an "XXX design that I'll be wearing on my wedding day," she said. "It's going to be an awesome day
An Internet poll asked if people thought 10/10/10 would be a lucky day when something good would happen, an unlucky day when something bad would happen, or an average day on which the calendar date would have absolutely no bearing on whether good or bad stuff happened to anybody anywhere. More than 3,000 people clicked a response.
The results?
10 percent, something bad.
44 percent, no bearing.
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.
Not a bastard! Just a bitch. Stick the Sound of Music cd in you will agree with me. Every day is the perfect day.
Computation will be so easy by that point that nobody will be representing numbers as finite-bit integers except deep, deep inside the architecture where the ramifications are understood by the hardware geeks. The only thing is that for people’s convenience, abbreviations will probably STILL be used in representations of the date, leading to general consternation in 2099.
10 Facts:
1) God gave Moses 10 Commandments.
2) I-10 runs the E-W length of the continental United Stated from Florida to Santa Monica, California.
3) Most characters in a winning poker hand: four 10s + any other card.
4) 10 is the atomic number of neon.
5) In bowling, 10 pins are arranged in a triangular pattern and there are 10 frames per game.
6) 10 is the highest score possible in Olympics competitions.
7) To reduce something by one-tenth is to “decimate.”
8) In Baseball there are always at least 10 players on the field at a time (including the batter).
9) In Basketball, the height of the goals is 10 feet. Also the number of players on the court (5 on each team).
10) The most common number of items in any given list...you guessed it—10!
0) There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
What - are we just gonna skip 10/10/2110?
But I meant 2/2/2022. If you have found the Fountain of Youth that will let us live til 2110, invite me over!
1 posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:48:25 AM by Berlin_Freeper
That would make a good tag line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwLoSg_rbNQ
Ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten
cracks me up!
ML/NJ (in Israel)
|
Sort of. He gave Moses 613 commandments. (Like is Love your neighbor part of your "ten commandments" do you think?)
ML/NJ
Stupid FR Clock! (But you guys to the west will have your own shot soon.)
ML/NJ
But Gargantua could keep no better countenance than to burst out bellowing like a cow. He hid his face in his cap, and it was no more possible to draw a word from him than a fart from a dead donkey. - Rabelais
Do you know what you get if you combine Florine, Uraniam, Carbon and Potasium?
A dirty bomb. Ha Ha!
The eff bomb?
Unfortunately I don’t think there is anything corresponding to it in the chemical world. The F and K would tie each other up (with explosive energy) and if enough F left over you might get uranium hexafluoride. The carbon would be the odd man out, probably uncombined.
Niiiiiiiiiice!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.