Like me, you probably slept through both of this morning's "once-in-a-lifetime events," namely:
"It's a good day to make money and have good health," said Betsy Carlson in the Palm Springs Desert Sun.
"I like to think every day is a good day to play the lottery," said "intuitive counselor" Barbara Evans in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Williams College mathemetician Edward Burger was having none of it. "It's a very silly thing," he told the San Antonio Express-News. Folks in countries like England, where today's date is 08/07/09, must have been inclined to agree.
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- the clock striking 12:34:56 on 07/08/09;
- the clock striking 04:05:06 on 07/08/09.
"It's a good day to make money and have good health," said Betsy Carlson in the Palm Springs Desert Sun.
"I like to think every day is a good day to play the lottery," said "intuitive counselor" Barbara Evans in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Williams College mathemetician Edward Burger was having none of it. "It's a very silly thing," he told the San Antonio Express-News. Folks in countries like England, where today's date is 08/07/09, must have been inclined to agree.
Read more:
• Rare Time/Date Alignment Could Mean Opportunities
• Today's Date Provides Another 'Once in a Lifetime' Event
• No Great Meaning in Today's Numbers
• The Date Is Rare, in Case You Care
Comments
It’s also the punchline to a bad joke.
Why was six afraid of seven?
Seven eight nine.
Har Har!
Funnily enough the Dow Jones 30 put in a low on that day and has melted up ever since. Will it peak on the UKs turn tomorrow , the real 07/08/09
this is so cool, OMG lets go to school. our school is doing a shout out to our school about this one-in-a-lifetime-event. we’re awesome, actually we’re a hole, our schools a hole. reppin the hole, im serious, our school is a hole, not literally a hole, but it might aswell be, i’d like to dig a hole, to china.. care to join me or i could burry something, my dogs bone, shes so fat but cute. i like socks they keep my feet warm. so does holldog, shes a mad dog. did i mention i have the swine, not the swine i have a swine. a pig called swine he also is fat like my dog ilove them both, they wear socks to keep their hoofs and paws warm. toodles i like noodles.
I like how the numerologists just used the easiest way out. “Uh, uh yeah. Itll…itll be a good day! YEAH. GOOD DAYS FOREEVEERR!! …. Ill be in the newspaper, right?”
For the benefit of Edward Burger in England the date is the right way round i.e 07/08/09
“Folks in countries like England, where today’s date is 08/07/09, must have been inclined to agree.”
What?
The UK does not use perverse date orders. In English we may all say “August 7th 2009″ but in European tradition the numerical date is still “07/08/09″ (small to big. in geek land the date is normally YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss to keep a strictly logical progression)
As for the symbology of it: there is none. The measure is an arbitrary assignment on a phenomenon of nature, not a phenomenon of nature itself.
DuCakedHare,
Note the date this article was originally written: JULY 8, 2009.
shutup! it was the 7th not the 8th you geek face
Ah yes, urbanlegends – you are right.
I read the article a month later. Mea culpa.
I just found this article because a few minutes ago, I looked at my computer’s clock and it said 12:34:56. I read somewhere that some people have favorite numbers and they say they seem to see those numbers on their clocks a lot. For me, I’m not saying that 123456 is necessarily my favorite number, but it made me curious why…