Wednesday's date is so special!!


	Wednesday's date is so special!!

shaor

9-8-2009 8:05 PM

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shaor says:

The source explains more so go there to have full story as I could not clip it all!

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9-9-2009 1:31 AM

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I remember hearing about this.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53c74479-a1ca-4989-8c5f-440e9a4583ec/A55DBD18-8639-4B48-B115-18530CDFD83D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090908/sc_livescience/why090909issospecial" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090908/sc_livescience/why090909issospecial" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090908/sc_livescience/why090909issospecial"><H1 id="yn-story-title">Why 09/09/09 Is So Special</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090908/sc_livescience/why090909issospecial"><P>
In <SPAN id="lw_1252421246_0" class="yshortcuts">Florida</SPAN>, at least one county clerk's office is offering a one-day
wedding special for $99.99. The rarity of this Sept. 9 hasn't been lost
on the creators of the <SPAN id="lw_1252421246_1" class="yshortcuts">iPod</SPAN>, who have moved their traditional Tuesday
release day to Wednesday to take advantage of the special date. <SPAN id="lw_1252421246_2" class="yshortcuts">Focus
Features</SPAN> is releasing their <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/why090909issospecial/33308555/SIG=11kibfbl0/*http://www.newsarama.com/film/090908-review-9.html"><SPAN id="lw_1252421246_3" class="yshortcuts">new film "9</SPAN></A>," an animated tale about <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/why090909issospecial/33308555/SIG=12adopftq/*http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090614-end-of-the-world-hoax.html"><SPAN id="lw_1252421246_4" class="yshortcuts">the apocalypse</SPAN></A>, on the 9th. 
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Not only does the date look good in marketing promotions, but it
also represents the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that
we'll see for almost a century (until January 1, 2101), or a millennium
(mark your calendars for January 1, 3001), depending on how you want to
count it. 
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Though technically there's nothing special about the symmetrical date, some concerned with the <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/why090909issospecial/33308555/SIG=12adopftq/*http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090614-end-of-the-world-hoax.html"><SPAN id="lw_1252421246_5" class="yshortcuts">history and meaning of numbers</SPAN></A> ascribe powerful significance to 09/09/09.  </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090908/sc_livescience/why090909issospecial">Everyone from brides and grooms to movie studio execs are celebrating the upcoming calendrical anomaly in their own way. 
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