#54950
02/02/2002 8:35 PM
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Happy Palindromic Groundhog Day! 
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#54951
02/02/2002 8:49 PM
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And from LA I say "Who gives a damn what Punxsatawney Phil says? I still have roses blooming in my front yard, and the lawn needs mowing.
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#54952
02/02/2002 9:37 PM
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enthusiast
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enthusiast
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That's not a palindrome!ha ha ha Take off the first 0.
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#54953
02/02/2002 9:53 PM
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Jimmie, so there you are! I was worried where you might have run off to, young pup. I was just going to call the pound! You are correct about the need for dropping the first zero. I was going to say the same myself, but you beat me to it.
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#54954
02/02/2002 10:08 PM
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Okay, so ya got me! Well, anyway, I was just tryin' to throw the dog a bone to see if he'd bite!  Welcome back, jim!
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#54955
02/02/2002 11:02 PM
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02-02-02 is fine if you are writing as its done in the US military. The first 0 before single numbers keeping naughty ones from changing the number ... and BTW the military does dates as in Europe day/month/year
So 02-02-02 is second of February 2002.
In the Massachusetts lottery on New Year the winning daily number was 2002 ... no kidding! So many winners they each ended up with about $275.
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#54956
02/03/2002 5:52 PM
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newbie
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newbie
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"Oh, two... Oh, two. Oh! Two!" -- Now there's romance in those numbers by far outweighing the winning of any lottery!
Side by side..........
Starbright,
OrB
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#54957
02/05/2002 9:24 PM
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>The first 0 before single numbers keeping naughty ones from changing the number
The first zero actually IS a naught.
TEd
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#54958
02/06/2002 2:48 AM
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old hand
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Everywhere but the US(??) folks use the day then month then year.
On the strength of this, I make the first palindromic day as being 20 02 2002
stales
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#54959
02/06/2002 12:21 PM
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old hand
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Re: 20 02 2002So if I read you right, that won't be until August 2 of 2003, right?
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#54960
02/07/2002 12:20 AM
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old hand
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Think you're displaying a case of lysdexia there FB!! But love the maths ability.
stales
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#54961
02/07/2002 11:57 AM
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old hand
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Not so much dyslexia, stales, as the American version of right... us hegemonist types like to go against the grain if only for principle. We say the month first, we drive on the right side of the road, we use imperial weights & measures, we insist that Australia is on the bottom half of the world... 
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#54962
02/08/2002 1:53 AM
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Then there's the one about I know, I know, it's old the dyslexic agnostic insomniac, who stayed up all night worrying about whether or not there really was a dog...
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#54963
02/08/2002 2:01 AM
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addict
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addict
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whether or not there really was a dog...
RAT (and others) A: http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=49772
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#54964
02/08/2002 2:14 AM
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Dear me. So it is. And recently, too.  I s'pose the one's you've heard recently come to mind more readily?
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