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You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Dog Blogging / Palindrome Day Open Thread

Palindrome Day Open Thread

by Tim F|  March 12, 20138:34 pm| 70 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads

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Happy 3-13-13! This will be the last one for a hundred years.

Sammy and Max do the chest bump.

Max and Sammy

Chat about whatever.

***Update***

I meant that it will be the last 3-13-13 for 100 years, but I’ll take credit for the semantic confusion.

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  1. 1.

    MikeJ

    March 12, 2013 at 8:37 pm

    Depends on your date format. 31-3-13 Will be the last for a while.

  2. 2.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    March 12, 2013 at 8:43 pm

    Flossie is just about killing me with the post spaying stuff. She is trying to rip out her stitches, causing all sorts of problems with her tiny slit in her belly to the extent that I am wrapping her up with ace bandages on a daily basis. The Elizabethan collar works sometimes, but not all the time. I am worried that she is going to evicerate herself.

  3. 3.

    blieker

    March 12, 2013 at 8:43 pm

    This will be the last one for a hundred years.

    What? How about 4-14-14? Mike J has it right.

  4. 4.

    Mary

    March 12, 2013 at 8:44 pm

    4-14-14?

  5. 5.

    SP

    March 12, 2013 at 8:44 pm

    5-15-15? 6-16-16? WTFTW?

  6. 6.

    maya

    March 12, 2013 at 8:45 pm

    Will never be as cool as 1961 was.

  7. 7.

    jl

    March 12, 2013 at 8:45 pm

    @MikeJ: Uh-oh. Doesn’t the world end on palindromic dates, if done in the right date format? And we have two 13s in Tim F’s date. Should I be twice as scared, or just watch out to not walk under double ladders?

  8. 8.

    Raenelle

    March 12, 2013 at 8:46 pm

    I don’t understand. What’s wrong with 4-14-14, 5-15-15, . . . 9-19-19? I’ve changed my meds, so I may be missing something obvious. But I don’t understand why this is the last palindrome day, in this date format, for a century.

  9. 9.

    ranchandsyrup

    March 12, 2013 at 8:51 pm

    A slut nixes sex in Tulsa.

  10. 10.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 12, 2013 at 8:51 pm

    @Raenelle: Or 2-20-2020, I knew 2 people born on 9-19-1919.

  11. 11.

    ruemara

    March 12, 2013 at 8:53 pm

    I hate to bother, but this is someone I know and he’s currently fighting for his life in the hospital.
    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mikeys-Justice-Fund/102120376646611

    He was beaten up in a hate crime and I know these guys, they make a living wage, but it does not cover this level of hospitalization and whatever recovery theraphy will be necessary.

  12. 12.

    jl

    March 12, 2013 at 8:54 pm

    @ranchandsyrup:

    ” A slut nixes sex in Tulsa. ”

    Why didn’t they teach me that in grade school? You give an example like that, and students won’t forget what palindrome means, fer sher.

  13. 13.

    ranchandsyrup

    March 12, 2013 at 8:55 pm

    @jl: Yeah, Madam I’m Adam doesn’t have the same punch. Unless you’re already named Adam.

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 12, 2013 at 8:58 pm

    FWIW Napoleon most likely did not say, “Able was I ere I saw Elba.”

  15. 15.

    Morzer

    March 12, 2013 at 8:58 pm

    @jl:

    I hear the world will end on a Palin Dronic date…

  16. 16.

    jl

    March 12, 2013 at 9:09 pm

    I found a guide to palindromic dates (in the two most common date formats) by some fellow at University of Portland.
    There seems to be something special about Mitt Romney’s palindromic birth date, but I will click on that and find out what it is later.

    Palindrome Dates (Palindrome Days) in the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Centuries
    http://faculty.up.edu/ainan/palindrome.html

  17. 17.

    Yutsano

    March 12, 2013 at 9:11 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: SACRE BLEU! Are you saying Napoleon did not speak the English? Picard you lied to me!!

  18. 18.

    jl

    March 12, 2013 at 9:11 pm

    @ruemara: thanks for that info. Horrible story. I see there is a paypal link on the ‘about page’.

  19. 19.

    liberal

    March 12, 2013 at 9:13 pm

    Must read article on science (biomedical research in this case).

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 12, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    @Yutsano: Not well enough to have come up with that palindrome. Also too, he spoke French with a strong Corsican-Italian accent.

  21. 21.

    ruemara

    March 12, 2013 at 9:17 pm

    I just don’t get it. Why? Mike is almost painfully shy, very sweet and friendly. WHy would anyone attack him? Why would they beat him up like this? I don’t hate people but I don’t understand this kind of hatred & violence.

  22. 22.

    Melissa

    March 12, 2013 at 9:17 pm

    A man, a plan, a canal—Panama.

    Teddy Roosevelt palindrome

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    March 12, 2013 at 9:19 pm

    @ruemara: Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

  24. 24.

    The Dangerman

    March 12, 2013 at 9:23 pm

    A Palin drone? I’m all for it as long as you get most of the kids!

    Palindrome?! Oops, my bad. Carry on.

  25. 25.

    liberal

    March 12, 2013 at 9:28 pm

    @ruemara:
    Sadly, this kind of shit is definitely part of human nature.

  26. 26.

    ruemara

    March 12, 2013 at 9:30 pm

    homophobia: the terrifying fear that some guy will treat you like you treat women. and that you’ll like it.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 12, 2013 at 9:36 pm

    @ruemara: From Morgan Freeman on Twitter:

    I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

  28. 28.

    jeffreyw

    March 12, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    Thread needs moar puppeh!

  29. 29.

    WereBear

    March 12, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Vitamin E capsules? Coconut oil? Bio-oil?

    It itches as it heals. Drives them nuts.

  30. 30.

    burnspbesq

    March 12, 2013 at 9:43 pm

    One of the all-time great palindromes appeared in Roger Angell’s magnificent New Yorker piece on the 1986 World Series.

    “Not so, Boston.”

  31. 31.

    eyelessgame

    March 12, 2013 at 9:48 pm

    Go hang a salami – I’m a lasagna hog.

  32. 32.

    gogol's wife

    March 12, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    I just watched “Animal House” for the first time since I saw it when it came out. I now realize that many humorous quips that I thought were Balloon Juice originals are in fact quotations from that sacred text.

  33. 33.

    MikeJ

    March 12, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Did we give up when the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor?

  34. 34.

    Yutsano

    March 12, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    @MikeJ:

    Did we give up when the Nazis Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

    Sigh. And you were doing so well too.

  35. 35.

    MikeJ

    March 12, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    @Yutsano: I’ll get me coat.

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 12, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    @gogol’s wife: We’re just animals, I guess.

  37. 37.

    Baud

    March 12, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    There hasn’t been an original thought in this country since 1969.

  38. 38.

    gogol's wife

    March 12, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    @MikeJ:

    I love “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.”

    Also too, Niedermeyer IS Mitt Romney!

  39. 39.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 12, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    @Baud: I thought it was wine that we haven’t had since then.

  40. 40.

    gogol's wife

    March 12, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Having just seen it, I think it’s “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” But I could be wrong.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 12, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    @gogol’s wife: You are not wrong.

  42. 42.

    Baud

    March 12, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    What? Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

    We live in the age of Google, people.

  43. 43.

    Baud

    March 12, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Same difference.

  44. 44.

    Yutsano

    March 12, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    @gogol’s wife: @Baud: Yeah. I couldn’t remember the rest of the correction and I’m at work. Mote in eye, etc.

  45. 45.

    karen marie

    March 12, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Staples. That’s what the vet did for my Lucy when her incision started opening because I couldn’t keep her quiet enough. Healed beautifully.

  46. 46.

    Culture of Truth

    March 12, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Isn’t it really better that way?

  47. 47.

    gogol's wife

    March 12, 2013 at 10:17 pm

    @Culture of Truth:

    Oh yes, I was deeply amused. But only half the quotations come from there. The other half are from “Airplane!.”

  48. 48.

    Baud

    March 12, 2013 at 10:19 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    Don’t forget Blazing Saddles. That’s another half right there.

  49. 49.

    PeakVT

    March 12, 2013 at 10:20 pm

    Big but not entirely surprising Red Planet news today.

    ETA: FYWP apparently does not like the name of the next planet out today.

  50. 50.

    scav

    March 12, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    Gurgle of joy from this snippit, for obvious (or not so obvious) reasons.

    “Extra omnes,” says the master of ceremonies, Monsignor Guido Marini, in Latin: everybody out.

    Possibly a sub-nym for this period of the smoke-reading?

  51. 51.

    Wag

    March 12, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    Surely you can’t be serious.

    I am serious. And stop calling me Shirley.

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 12, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    @scav:

    Extra omnes

    No one wants that.

  53. 53.

    MattR

    March 12, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    @gogol’s wife: “He can’t do that to our pledges. Only we can do that to our pledges.”

  54. 54.

    scav

    March 12, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Well then extra omnes really did empty the room!

  55. 55.

    catclub

    March 12, 2013 at 10:33 pm

    It seems to me that 2-22-22 is a palindromic number.
    Trivial, bit I like trivial solutions.
    05-5-50 if you start abusing the format
    15-5-51

    et cetera, et cetera

  56. 56.

    Culture of Truth

    March 12, 2013 at 10:35 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Heh. I almost ended my first post with “we’re all counting.”

  57. 57.

    jamick6000

    March 12, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    Here is an amazing David Brooks column from April 2003 on the then-recent invasion of Iraq. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/565jgibg.asp?page=3

    Here he’s describing how a hypothetical 20-year old, “Joey,” who’s watching the war unfold and how the events would shape his political views:

    Joey doesn’t know much about history; he was born in 1983 and was only 6 when the Berlin Wall fell. He really has no firm idea of what labels like liberal and conservative mean. But now he is in college, and he’s been glued to the cable coverage of the war and is ready to form some opinions. Over the past months, certain facts and characters have entered his consciousness, like characters in a play he is seeing for the first time.

    The first character is America itself. He sees that his country is an incredibly effective colossus that can drop bombs onto pinpoints, destroy enemies that aren’t even aware they are under attack. He sees a ruling establishment that can conduct wars with incredible competence and skill. He sees a federal government that can perform its primary task–protecting the American people–magnificently.

    These are obviously not the things Joey would have seen if he had come of age in 1972, and his mentality is likely to be radically different from that of many people of the sixties generation. He is likely to feel confident about American power. He is likely to assume that when America projects its might, it is not only great, but good. Its pilots fly low, at some risk to themselves, to reduce civilian casualties. Teams of lawyers vet bombing targets to minimize unnecessary damage. Efforts are made to spare enemy soldiers who don’t want to fight. The military, moreover, is fundamentally open to the press, allowing embedded reporters to wander amidst the troops. The ruling class is reasonably candid about the war’s progress. The anonymous people in the corridors of power basically seem to know what they are doing.

    bold mine.

    And here’s how the column ends:

    Joey isn’t one of a kind. There are millions of Joeys, and variations on Joey. Inevitably, then, in ways subtle and profound, the events of the past month will shape our politics for the rest of our lives.

  58. 58.

    Culture of Truth

    March 12, 2013 at 10:40 pm

    “on you.”

  59. 59.

    Culture of Truth

    March 12, 2013 at 10:41 pm

    @jamick6000: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

  60. 60.

    Baud

    March 12, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    @jamick6000:

    No wonder Joey couldn’t get laid in college.

  61. 61.

    PeakVT

    March 12, 2013 at 10:59 pm

    @jamick6000: If pundits were held accountable Bobo would be living in a cardboard box.

  62. 62.

    jamick6000

    March 12, 2013 at 11:00 pm

    @Culture of Truth: I know, I’m laughing my ass off.

    Also, Joey’s full name is “Joey Tabula-Rasa” … some sort of Latino outreach?!!?!?!?

  63. 63.

    jamick6000

    March 12, 2013 at 11:02 pm

    @Baud: I heard a rumor he almost got it in with a chunky Reese Witherspoon.

  64. 64.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 12, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    @jamick6000: It sounds better than Joey Clean Slate (which is possibly the worst Native American name since Dull Knife, who was a bad ass).

  65. 65.

    Mnemosyne

    March 12, 2013 at 11:18 pm

    @jamick6000:

    Joey isn’t one of a kind. There are millions of Joeys, and variations on Joey. Inevitably, then, in ways subtle and profound, the events of the past month will shape our politics for the rest of our lives.

    The ironic part is, Brooks was 100 percent right about this. Thousands, if not millions, of Joeys were watching the Bush administration in action in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in New Orleans.

    And that’s why they all voted for Barack Obama.

  66. 66.

    PurpleGirl

    March 12, 2013 at 11:27 pm

    @jeffreyw: Such a cute face. I want to rub noses with the puppeh.

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 12, 2013 at 11:49 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Of course, Dull Knife really was Morning Star (which is also Lucifer).

  68. 68.

    NotMax

    March 13, 2013 at 2:50 am

    Also too (using the same formatting):

    9-1-19
    9-2-29
    9-3-39
    9-4-49
    9-5-59
    9-6-69
    9-7-79
    9-8-89
    9-9-99

    and so many, many more.

  69. 69.

    Elizabelle

    March 13, 2013 at 3:26 am

    @jamick6000:

    Was that an assigned reading in Brooks’ Humility class?

    Great find.

  70. 70.

    trnc

    March 13, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    If you happen to be in Europe late this year, you might see 31-11-13.

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