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I don't understand the statement that 12:34:56 7/8/9 will only happen once in history. Because the year is ambiguous wouldn't this same sequence also occur on 12:34:56 7/8/[100]9? In other words, any year ending in 9 (e.g., 1009, 109, 1209, etc.) would also produce this sequence as long as the year is specified only with one number.
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You are correct as far as I can tell. I replied to Anu asking him as much. It will happen at least every 1,000 years, as will any date with the year abbreviated. I don't know where he got that! :0)
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or, as the OP suggest, every 100 years; as on July 8, 2109.
-joe (most of us won't be affected by the ambiguity) friday
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Us fellas won't be affected until the 7th of Augustus.
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I don't remember, but was it Anu who said to look for:
11:11:11 11/11/11 in 2011?
Last edited by LukeJavan8; 07/13/09 12:36 AM. Reason: typo
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I don't remember, but was it Anu who said to look for:
11:11:11 11/11/11 in 2011? neat! someone(s) will have their eleventh birthday on that day! what fun!
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It's good to see you again, Sweet Thing! 'Ve you been on vacation in your summer off?
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well, vacation yes! but not so much summer up here... too often rainy. but plenty of warm hearts and family!
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Good gracious, who is that long-haired stranger?! 
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eta's secret identity revealed. Buffalo Bill Cody.
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Or either that or he's in some medieval re-enactment thang.
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Of course, these are hard times. I cut down on hairdresser costs too. 
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I don't understand the statement that 12:34:56 7/8/9 will only happen once in history. Because the year is ambiguous wouldn't this same sequence also occur on 12:34:56 7/8/[100]9? In other words, any year ending in 9 (e.g., 1009, 109, 1209, etc.) would also produce this sequence as long as the year is specified only with one number. Even if you limit it to 2009 (or 2007 as we will see in a bit) it will happen at least 24 times or more considering that the date could be the 8th of July, the 7th of August, and even the 9th of August 2007 in big-endian Asian countries and counting all the different time zones.
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zed, you're right! This is from: History page 
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Jackie, you made your 10.000th post a unique outstanding one.  I guess Buffaloo Bill was a large man. I agree with Faldage; the Vikings period. Anyway eta, it just looks good.
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heh
love it!!
actually, I have just recently seen a tv special (NOVA?) about Buffalo Bill, and remarked about my appearential similarity!
great pic, Jackie, thanks!
I'll put on my tux later and take a picture....
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you need to work some on your 'stache, tho.
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you need to work some on your 'stache, tho.
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Yow, it was my ten thousandth one, wasn't it? Good eye! (But then, look who I'm talking about!) But yes, it was a great subject, wasn't it? I did look--for quite a while--for a smaller version of that one, or a small one that was just as good a likeness, but that one was it. Sorry it was so large.
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Sigh!
I do got a thing for cowboys.
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Sigh!
I do got a thing for cowboys. As a Plains-dwelling person, so do I. North Platte is his home town, quite a lot of touristy things there.
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eta! You changed your name! I love it!! [clapping e]
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eta! You changed your name! I love it!! [clapping e] heh thanks! :¬ {)>
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Ol'e Cody might give you a fight for the "first name", but in the
end he'd approve, I reckon.
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I don't understand the statement that 12:34:56 7/8/9 will only happen once in history. Because the year is ambiguous wouldn't this same sequence also occur on 12:34:56 7/8/[100]9? In other words, any year ending in 9 (e.g., 1009, 109, 1209, etc.) would also produce this sequence as long as the year is specified only with one number. But note: In the year 1009 there was no 12:34:56.
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OK, I'll bite why, Faldage. It's just a few minutes after noon
on any day (or midnight, for that matter), what am I missing?
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I think Faldo's just being pedantic (as is his wont); they knew not of the twenty-four hour clock back in the day. - ron o. link
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It's not the 24 hour clock. They A) didn't have minutes and 2) they didn't really have any standard time that was recognized outside of, say, a single monastery. One monastery's time wouldn't have necessarily agreed with another's even if they were only a few miles from each other. It'd be like saying we had an occurrence of 12:34:56.78 9/A/BCD in the year we call 3012 because they switched to hexadecimal and customarily kept time down to the hundredth of a second in the year we would call 4004.
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good thing we discovered gravity.
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I'm not sure I have. My mind keeps floating away.
Back to SciFi (which incidentally I remember hearing as SciFic somewhere in my distant past) word. It always amused me to see what was invented as swearing. Frac, smeg and the like.
On a tangent, does anyone remember the Tom Swift series. No invention of new words there. They just prefixed everything with space. "Look Tom, the explosion of space fuel turned that space rock into space dust!!!" Yeesh.
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Your mind floated towards a different thread maybe. The one that started as
'Imaginary Science Fiction Words... Participatory Thread ' and now has
'Origins' for a headline.When the headline of a thread changes too often in a discussion thread I get lost too.
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Sheesh! Stuff happens when I'm busy! I'm speechless, eta! Woulda known ya from the "heh", tho.... ;0)
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yeesh again, totally the wrong thread. I will copy it over there and try not to tangle the warped weft any further.
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