>>>>>>>>>>>On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
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>>>>>>>>>>>That won’t happen again for 1,000 years.
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>>>>>>>>>>Wouldn't that be 100 years?... 2106 = /06, doesn't it?
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>>>>>>>>>But don't you love these date-setting dependent cute numbers? I remember a couple of my friends were married on 19th of September in '91, because 19.9.1991 is one of those once-in-a-zillion years dates. If your date format is yy-m-dddd, that is. And nobody gets married on a Thursday there - they got the matricular office working overtime. At least their friends remember the date :).
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>>>>>>>>I was best man in an 8-8-80 wedding.
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>>>>>>>Our daughter will remember her eighth birthday. She was born 8-8-80. So on 8-8-88 she was 8! Now she is 25. How did that happen? :) Kids grow up too soon.
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>>>>>>When one of my nieces turned 30, we had a real blow-up over how she could have let it happen that she wasn't 12 any more. I mean, how could she do this to me.
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>>>>>I agree! It is not fair! :)
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>>>>with my wee six-year-old, I want here to stay cute like that forever. I've explained to her what I mean when I keep threatening to remove her pituitary gland so that she remains so. That freaks her out a bit! :-)
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>>>Give her a copy of Günter Grass' Tin Drum to read, or read it to her. Really set her on fry.
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>>I read that years ago. Can't remember now - does he stay a kid all through the war and how? I seem to remember it has a happy ending though? - not freakifying enough :-)
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>He stays a kid because he made a vow not to be a politician or a grocer and to stay just the way he was.
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>>BTW, I also threaten to eat her left arm ... some day when I'm really hungry ... and when she's not expecting it.
>>I say left arm so she'll still have her better arm to write with, etc. She always bolts the hatch on her oubliette from the inside after that :-]

>You keep her in a dungeon too? Man, that's going to be one maladjusted kid some day! I'd sleep with one eye open if I were you. ;-)

Why? It never did ME any harm! And I keep my great grandmother down there for company!