Monday, January 03, 2011

Signs and portents.

Alan reminds us to brace ourselves, because Armistice Day this year will be the day that the world goes to eleven!

In turn, Roomie noted that the second day of the same month, 11/02/2011, should be declared International Palindrome Day.

Able was I ere I saw Elba!

11 comments:

Turk Turon said...

Name no one man!

Fodder4Thought said...

If I ever go to palindrome-land I'll have them call me 'Dr. Awkward.'

Buzz said...

It won't be "international," since the US is an oddball in using MM/DD/YY order for dates.
Most other places are DD/MM/YY or YY/MM/DD.
(Myself, I prefer YYMMDD for computer filenames with embedded dates, plus DDMmmYY for everyday date notation.)

Freiheit said...

"Roomie noted that the second day of the same month, 11/02/2011, should be declared International Palindrome Day." - Won't work. Most of Europe would show that date as 02/11/2011.

Sorry for being pedantic.

ViolentIndifference said...

I use the ISO 8601 date/time format:

2011-11-02

Tam said...

I can't help it if they do it wrong. Besides, they all talk funny over there, so it would probably be "Le Day d'Palindrome Internationale" or something.

;)

ViolentIndifference said...

"they all talk funny over there"

Laaaaadyyyy!

Justthisguy said...

Tam is right. The natives will just have to learn to speak English.

Who built the Isthmian Canal, anyway?

A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!

bluesun said...

Doc, note. I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I died on cod.

Sorry, I couldn't help it.

ViolentIndifference said...

I DIET on cod.

Pushing my CDO button.

Ed Skinner said...

11/02/2011 is palindromic (?) on both sides of the Atlantic. We just disagree on what day to celebrate it on. (Damn. Ended a sentence a preposition with!)