Happy Palendrome Day!
09/09/09
Particularly auspicious as it is the one day in the year when the British (?) date format dd:mm:yy is synchronised with the crazy back-to-front US date format mm:dd:yy. A rare day!
I just can't wait for - wait for it - 20:09:2009!!
Maybe we should all get married, a la The Moonies!
Oh wait...I'm already married!
Cheers
Ben
Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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Re: Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
I thought that was a monthly thing?
but get your vows reaffirmed!
but get your vows reaffirmed!
Ben wrote:Happy Palendrome Day!
09/09/09
Particularly auspicious as it is the one day in the year when the British (?) date format dd:mm:yy is synchronised with the crazy back-to-front US date format mm:dd:yy. A rare day!
I just can't wait for - wait for it - 20:09:2009!!
Maybe we should all get married, a la The Moonies!
Oh wait...I'm already married!
Cheers
Ben
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Re: Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
and then I click it is the year also not just the date and the month
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Re: Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
Woohoo! Happy Universal Palendrome Day
Re: Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
Ben -- And here I thought palindromes (spelled with an 'I') were just those nifty little sentences that read the same from front to back, eg. "Madam, I'm Adam" or "Able was I ere I saw Elba" or "Do geese see God?"
Thanks for the update.
Thanks for the update.
Re: Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
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[Isn't the perfect palindrome today at 9:09 09/09/09?]
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[Isn't the perfect palindrome today at 9:09 09/09/09?]
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Why isn't the word 'palindrome' a palindrome?
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Re: Happy Universal Palendrome Day:09/09/09
Greetings Tex,
Missed out!
Metta,
Retro.
Yeah, I was a little disappointed once I remembered what day it was an then saw it was 10:11amTex wrote:[Isn't the perfect palindrome today at 9:09 09/09/09?]
Missed out!
Metta,
Retro.
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