# 10/10/10 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439 "2010-10-08T01:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/41 "2010-10-10T16:44:54Z")
The US dating format sucks. Today is 10/10/10, not 10/10/10. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/42 "2010-10-10T16:46:05Z")
> [@BigBertha](#): > > Waiting for the obligatory baby born at 10:10. Yes, [10 years ago](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-11507505) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/43 "2010-10-10T17:34:39Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > heh… today should be called Nadia Comaneci’s Day. 😃 Or Douglas Adams day. Or Jackie Robinson/Mariano Rivera day. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/44 "2010-10-10T21:44:57Z")
[10/10/10 Day](http://spikedmath.com/316.html) ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/45 "2010-10-10T21:47:21Z")
Add me to the list of people born 10/10. I was also born 10pounds 10 ounces if a few tens needed to be thrown in ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/46 "2010-10-11T02:27:11Z")
I just played Deal or No Deal on GSN’s web site and picked case #10 for being 10/10/10; it had 10 Oodles points in it (I took the deal for a higher amount, though). Since I was at work at 10:10 this morning, I’m going to observe the moment when 10:10 PM comes around. Speaking of 10-10, whatever became of all those 10-10-xxx phone numbers that used to be advertised a few years ago? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/47 "2010-10-11T02:33:34Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > > [@Telemark](#): > > > > I’ll be celebrating my birthday - presumably I’ll be out at brunch. I’m going for a 10 mile run the previous day 🙂 > > > [@Sorrel](#): > > > > I’ll be working ☹ > > > > But when I get home I’m going to crack open the Champagne as it will be my birthday:) > > It’s my birthday, too. (51) > > Now we need seven other Dopers born that day… My daughter (not a doper) had her 9th birthday on 10-10. Her birthdate is 10-10-01. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/48 "2010-10-11T02:35:24Z")
> [@dwc1970](#): > > I just played Deal or No Deal on GSN’s web site and picked case #10 for being 10/10/10; it had 10 Oodles points in it (I took the deal for a higher amount, though). Since I was at work at 10:10 this morning, I’m going to observe the moment when 10:10 PM comes around. > > Speaking of 10-10, whatever became of all those 10-10-xxx phone numbers that used to be advertised a few years ago? Cell phones, pretty much. Long distance stopped being a valuable item and became just another commodity. Remember when it was best to call family on Sunday evenings after 6:00pm 'cause that was when the LD rates were cheapest? ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/49 "2010-10-11T06:52:49Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > > [@postcards](#): > > > > It’s my birthday, too. (51) > > > > Now we need seven other Dopers born that day… > > My daughter (not a doper) had her 9th birthday on 10-10. Her birthdate is 10-10-01. So did my non-Doper nephew, born the same day as your daughter. The Princess and I attended a pizza party in his honor a couple hours ago. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/50 "2010-10-11T11:10:30Z")
…what, nobody’s figured out my riddle? (See post #35, above.) I couldn’t possibly be the geekiest one here… ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/51 "2010-10-11T13:03:14Z")
A group of us [restaged the picnic](http://www.flickr.com/photos/madeleine_shepherd/5069702684/in/photostream/) that’s the opening shot of the [Powers of Ten](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0) (youtube video of it) film all about scale. Mid-October is not the time to have a picnic outside in the Meadows in Edinburgh! brrrr. Fortunately, we had an indoor plan to fall back on! ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/52 "2010-10-11T22:12:08Z")
> [@fuzzypickles](#): > > …what, nobody’s figured out my riddle? (See post #35, above.) > > I couldn’t possibly be the geekiest one here… The ASCII code for “\*” is 42 in decimal, which, as has been already pointed out, is 101010 in binary. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439/53 "2010-10-14T05:42:49Z")
> [@dwc1970](#): > > > [@fuzzypickles](#): > > > > …what, nobody’s figured out my riddle? (See post #35, above.) > > > > I couldn’t possibly be the geekiest one here… > > The ASCII code for “\*” is 42 in decimal, which, as has been already pointed out, is 101010 in binary. DING DING DING! We have a winner! Believe it or not, however, I’m not the first geek to think of it: > **[01011001](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/01011001)** > > 01011001 is the seventh studio album by Arjen Anthony Lucassen's long-running Ayreon project. The title is the binary representation of the ASCII value of the letter Y. > 01011001 is a concept album that tells the story of aliens called the "Forever", who create humanity, only to later endanger it by providing it with technology. > Seventeen singers in total, including Lucassen himself, contributed to the album, more than any other Ayreon album. Apart from Lucassen, only Anneke van Giersbergen (e... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-10-10/556439.md?page=2)