Here's another interesting tidbit. It's also almost, if not completely, as meaningless as the Blue Moon on December 31, 2009.

Local News | 01/02/2010: Backward and forward, this date is lining up as a rarity | Seattle Times Newspaper


And do you pronounce "palindrome" with a short "a" like in "penpal" or a long "a" like in Sarah Palin?

Ok, ok, I've exhausted my store of useless trivia for the year.

Short 'a' as in 'pal'.

Old one.. "Madam I am Adam."

Actually needs to be "Madam I'm Adam," but who's counting?

Also, "Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?"

Radar

It's all I could think of in short notice.

Arbitrary, based on the convention of expressing the date.

Sure, using MM/DD/YYYY, today's a palindrome.

But if one uses DD/MM/YYYY, February the 1st is a palindrome: 01/02/2010


Or, if one uses DD/MM/YY, we'll see a palindrome in November: 01/11/10

MM/DD/YY -- happens in 9 days -- 01/11/10

I'm more excited about November 11th of next year -- something cosmic is sure to occur as the clock ticks 11:11:11 on 11/11/11. (If we only knew which time zone is controlling.)


Whoopy-tee-doo. Like Napolean said, "Able was I ere I saw Elba."






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Tony, is there a hyphen in "anal-retentive?"

It's a soft hyphen.







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Here's a good one.

"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama."

Referring to Teddy Roosevelt, of course.