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The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1726
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:08 am: | 
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This Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be:
01:02:03 04/05/06
That won't ever happen again.
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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2722
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:09 am: |
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yes it will, in the year 3006 |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 1487
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:10 am: |
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Old news. SouthOrange Lady posted this yesterday. |
The Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1728
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:12 am: |
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Alright, Monster, please explain to the class how this century-later spin on what is so obviously old news would look numerically... |
Buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 4342
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:21 am: |
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They are coming tonight!
I've waited years for this! ![ordinary1[1].jpg](http://www.southorangevillage.com/cgi-bin/board-post.cgi?action=posting_upload_form&what=show&img=108824)
Monster, prepare the mead! |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2723
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:25 am: |
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it would look just like this,
01:02:03 04/05/06 |
wendy
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Username: Wendy
Post Number: 2255
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:30 am: |
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And as aquaman pointed out it will look that every 100 years as well: 2106, 2206, etc. (which we abbreviate 06). |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 3203
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:44 am: |
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It will also be that time at 1:02:03 PM |
Buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 4344
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:49 am: |
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now that's more my style ^
monster, do they make afternoon mead? |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13394
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 12:00 pm: |
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Interesting math geek fact: a nanocentury is approximately pi seconds.
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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2726
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 1:20 pm: |
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mead is an all time thing. |
argon_smythe
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Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 811
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 2:25 pm: |
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One thing for sure, the time I spent reading about this, I will never get back again.
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Debby
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Username: Debby
Post Number: 2262
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 6:40 pm: |
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and then it will be 04/05/06 07:08:09 |
Arnomation
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Username: Arnomation
Post Number: 523
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 7:40 pm: |
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Hasn't this happened every hundred years since the beginning of recorded history starting with the year 06??? It happened in 1906, 1806 and so on... I think who ever started that email spam meant to say it most likley won't ever happen again in our lifetime |
CageyD
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Username: Cageyd
Post Number: 674
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 7:51 pm: |
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I remember in 1978 my dad making a big deal on May 6 because at 12:34 it would be 12:34 5/6/78. Johnie Carson talked about it on his show that night. |
Scully
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Username: Scully
Post Number: 290
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 1:02 am: |
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The Soulful Mr T:
I'm trying to 'catch' the numbers in this post... |
Scully
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Username: Scully
Post Number: 291
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 1:03 am: |
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cool |
jeffl
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Username: Jeffl
Post Number: 1635
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 8:16 am: |
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Ah, I remember 12:34 5/6/78. Do you remember where you were?
Off topic: Gilbert Gottfried tells this joke -
I was at a cocktail party with Jackie Onassis and we were chatting so I asked her, "So do you remember where you were the moment..." "Oh, jeesh! I'm sorry." |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 4611
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 9:37 am: |
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Thought this might be of interest.
Another fine moment for folks who liked 9/9/99
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
BY SETH BORENSTEIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Call it a coincidental sign of our digital times or a reason to stare at the clock. Either way, at a moment early this morning the time and date were precisely 01-02-03-04-05-06.
At 1:02 a.m. and three seconds today, April 5, it was the first hour of the day, the second minute of the hour, the third second of the minute in the fourth month and the fifth day of ... uh oh. It's not really the sixth year.
It's actually 2006 -- only in shorthand is it'06.
"It just happens to be a chronological oddity," said Geoff Chester, spokesman for the U.S. Naval Observatory, an official world atomic clock timekeeper. "If you were to use the full year, that would screw things up completely. You do have to bend it a little if you want to make it work. That's what you call 'Finagle's Law of Best Fit.'"
Even numerologists, such as Rob Ragozzine, who runs the SimplyNumbers.com Web site, dismiss the 01:02:03 04/05/06 moment as merely "a neat coincidence" because of that pesky 2006 thing.
"People are interested in numbers," said Jack Horkheimer, 67-year-old host of the Star Gazer public television show and executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. "Would I stay up all night waiting for it? Ten years ago, I would have had a party. Now, I will probably be deep in the arms of sleep."
There are less bleary-eyed alternatives. There's 1:02 in the afternoon to observe, but Horkheimer said that's really 13:02 and doesn't really count.
For much of the world, especially Europe, this odd lineup of numbers doesn't really happen until next month. That's because many countries list the number of the day before the number of the month.
So for many places, 01-02-03-04-05-06 happens at 1:02 a.m. May 4.
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