[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.

[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.

[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]

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.

[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!

[TruthHound]

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!

[advance_copy]

Shuāng Shí Jié (Double Ten Day) is the National Celebration Day, or Guóqìng Rìin, in Taiwan. It has been 99 years since the start of the 10/10/1911 uprising that led to the Republic of China (ROC).

[bannie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwLoSg_rbNQ

Ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten...ten

cracks me up!

[ml/nj]

Last week while in Jerusalem and taking buses there (you get a time stamped ticket when you pay which can be used as a transfer) it occurred to me that those stamped 10:10 on 10/10/10 might become collectors' items. I even came up with a strategy (Bording at 10:11 would be a bummer.) to obtain one for one of my cousins. It's about ten minutes from now as I type.

ML/NJ (in Israel)

[Erik Latranyi]

Folks, its just a number, arbitrarily created by flawed, human beings.

Our attraction to numbers is no different than our attraction to light or sweet foods.

[OBXWanderer]

8/8/88...the night the lights when on at Wrigley Field....actually it rained that night...postponed to 8/9/88

[Right Wing Assault]

I looked at a clock at 12:34 on 5/6/78.

[aberaussie]

My engineer husband says that today is National Binary Day!

[avg_freeper]

After 11/11/1111 it's all been down hill.