5/5/05

I love palindromes (you know—a word, verse, number etc that reads the same front or backwards) and repeating numbers. I was married on 5/22/99, although 9/9/99 would have been even “cooler”. Today is not only Cinco de Mayo, but it is also an interesting “number” day—5/5/05. I remember that when the Duke & Duchess of York’s daughter was born (I can’t recall which one—Eugenie or Beatrice) her birthdate was 8/8/88. The date was viewed by the “experts” (read: astrologists) as being very lucky.

You may remember from childhood things like “Madam in Eden I’m Adam”—ha ha!! The other cool remembrance from my girlhood days is the paradoxes:

"One fine day in the middle of the night"

One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys* got up to fight, [*or men]
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other,
One was blind and the other couldn't, see
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"
A paralysed donkey passing by,
Kicked the blind man in the eye,
Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came to arrest the two dead boys,
If you don't believe this story’s true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!

(From http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Onefineday.htm)


Funny stuff that.