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For you Americans out there
Topic Started: Aug 9 2010, 09:21 AM (457 Views)
jon-nyc
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Today is 8-9-10.

Not that that means anything, I just thought I'd point it out.


You non-Americans will have to wait a month. Ha Ha!


(Horace, add that to your list of reasons you're glad to be an American)

In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Kincaid
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7-8-9 would have been funnier, but I guess 7-8-09 doesn't quite work.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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Piano*Dad
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Yeah, I noticed that earlier today when I had to date something.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
at 7 seconds after 5:06 this morning it was 05:06:07, 8-9-10.

But I slept through it, so I'll have to wait for another hundred years to experience that.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Axtremus
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ivorythumper
Aug 9 2010, 01:06 PM
... so I'll have to wait for another hundred years to experience that.
Don't worry; the Obamacare death panel Circle of Life Council will take care of that for you.
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
Piano*Dad
Aug 9 2010, 10:58 AM
Yeah, I noticed that earlier today when I had to date something.
Well.. you didn't *have* to did you? I mean... couldn't you have just made an excuse and sneaked out while it wasn't looking?....
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jon-nyc
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ivorythumper
Aug 9 2010, 01:06 PM
at 7 seconds after 5:06 this morning it was 05:06:07, 8-9-10.

But I slept through it, so I'll have to wait for another hundred years to experience that.
I was totally awake for that. But it didn't occur to me until later.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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jon-nyc
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ivorythumper
Aug 9 2010, 01:06 PM
at 7 seconds after 5:06 this morning it was 05:06:07, 8-9-10.

But I slept through it, so I'll have to wait for another hundred years to experience that.
But next year you can wake up in time for 06:07:08 09-10-11


By the way, 09-10-11 will be my 43rd birthday.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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brenda
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..............
jon-nyc
Aug 9 2010, 04:53 PM
ivorythumper
Aug 9 2010, 01:06 PM
at 7 seconds after 5:06 this morning it was 05:06:07, 8-9-10.

But I slept through it, so I'll have to wait for another hundred years to experience that.
But next year you can wake up in time for 06:07:08 09-10-11


By the way, 09-10-11 will be my 43rd birthday.
whipper-snapper :tongue:
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
~A.A. Milne
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
Just to be fair, this applies to democrats too, not just the americans......
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LWpianistin
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Larry
Aug 9 2010, 05:01 PM
Just to be fair, this applies to democrats too, not just the americans......
:rolleyes2:
And how are you today?
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Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
hahahahahahaha
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Horace
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jon-nyc
Aug 9 2010, 09:21 AM
(Horace, add that to your list of reasons you're glad to be an American)

I'd love to, but in fact month-day-year offends my sense of order, it's a travesty. Go from specific to non-specific or vice versa, but don't mix and match. Shame on America.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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jon-nyc
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So allow me to suggest a new signature:

"Football and bacon make me proud to be an American. Shame we screwed up our date format."
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Riley
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Horace
Aug 10 2010, 06:20 AM
jon-nyc
Aug 9 2010, 09:21 AM
(Horace, add that to your list of reasons you're glad to be an American)

I'd love to, but in fact month-day-year offends my sense of order, it's a travesty. Go from specific to non-specific or vice versa, but don't mix and match. Shame on America.
It makes sense that way, because that is how you would say it out loud.

ie. August Fifth Two Thousand Ten
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Axtremus
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You can also say the fifth of August, 2010.
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Horace
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jon-nyc
Aug 10 2010, 06:50 AM
So allow me to suggest a new signature:

"Football and bacon make me proud to be an American. Shame we screwed up our date format."
The wording of that puts date format on a level of importance with football and bacon. I mean, I think my record here shows that I am not averse to absurdity, but even I have my limits.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Horace
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HOLY CARP!!!
Riley
Aug 10 2010, 07:15 AM
Horace
Aug 10 2010, 06:20 AM
jon-nyc
Aug 9 2010, 09:21 AM
(Horace, add that to your list of reasons you're glad to be an American)

I'd love to, but in fact month-day-year offends my sense of order, it's a travesty. Go from specific to non-specific or vice versa, but don't mix and match. Shame on America.
It makes sense that way, because that is how you would say it out loud.

ie. August Fifth Two Thousand Ten
Sure but if you use the name of the month instead of its number then you remove ambiguity. Transferring the month to a number when you write it, in the context of other cultures using other orders for the numbers, introduces a huge amount of confusion.

This got worse in 2010. Now for the first time since 1931, the abbreviated year number can be mistaken for either a month or a day. (The prepended "0" from 2001-2009 prevented this from happening then.)
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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