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Old 07-08-2009, 10:36 PM
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Anybody else get into this?
My PA bought it up at a meeting. You've never seen do many Americans look so baffled
It was quite fun really. We had a count-down and everything.
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At 12:34(hrs)&56"on the7thofthe8thof20(09) it was...well123456789
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Old 07-08-2009, 10:52 PM
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Damn, missed it!
Now I'll have to wait until 12:34.5 on the 6th of July (20)89 for the next one.

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Old 08-08-2009, 12:11 AM
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Have seen this one Peter, quite amusing actually.

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Old 08-08-2009, 01:00 AM
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Hubby rang me up to tell me about it.
Darn, if I knew this was coming up I'd have written a numerology conspiracy theory book about the event, could've made some money out of it.
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Old 08-08-2009, 01:32 AM
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Peter,

They had it on our "Noontime News" at the right time.


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Old 08-08-2009, 02:26 PM
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Damn, missed it!
Now I'll have to wait until 12:34.5 on the 6th of July (20)89 for the next one.

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2089
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Old 09-08-2009, 09:03 PM
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I must have missed that one.........

I will have to wait till my 129th Birthday for the next one.
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Old 09-08-2009, 09:41 PM
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I missed it too.
More interesting was what happened earlier in the day, when the zero's hadn't been conveniently ignored.....
04:05:06 07/08/09
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