Meaning of a sticker that reads "10-03-2002"

Factual Questions
1

I saw a Ford Explorer with the requisite bunch of “W The President” and “Bush/Cheney 2004” stickers on it, but there was one I hadn’t seen before. It was a big sticker that went most of the way over the top of the back window that said “10-03-2002”*. The zeroes had slashes through them like you used to see in computer programming or engineering. This was a new one on me, and since I’m a Doper, I like to be in the know. What did it mean?

*note: it might have been “10-02-2002”, but I’m pretty sure it was “03”

2

I’m not aware of anything earth-shaking that happened on that date, and Google didn’t turn up anything of major significance. I’m wondering if maybe it’s the driver’s wedding date or some such event.

3

Wikipedia has no entry for that date, and my Google searches came up dry as well. It could be something as mundane (not to him, of course) as the driver’s wedding day, but it looked mass-produced and all of his other stickers were of a political nature.

4

So which was it? 02 or 03?

5

:rolleyes:
What’d the man say? Like he wasn’t sure, right?

What I wonder is whether it was October 2 or 3 or February/March 10! :dubious:

SEvan

6

Not exactly. The OP said that (s)he was “pretty sure” that it was one of those. I’d just like to know which (s)he thought (s)he was “pretty sure” it was.

7

And I have no idea what significance that date could have, either.

8

Did you all try the 10th of March as well as the 3rd of October?

9

It was the day I turned 46. I don’t think that was anything bumper sticker worthy though.

10

15th wedding anniversary. We went to Newport for the weekend…

11

Almost no one in the US uses the D-M-Y convention.

12

Could have been a foreign car ya know. . . :: d&r ::

Based on the date and ‘font’ of the OP’s sticker, I did a Google for “computer october 3 2002” and all I could find of any prominence was Web Services Edge 2002. The other hits were mostly articles for that week. And I get the same results if I change the date to “2003” as well :confused:

FWIW, Oct 3, 2002 was a Wednesday, while Oct 3, '03 was a Friday.

So, there. I’m not much help either. Wasn’t Oct 3 the date of “Black Thursday” or “Black Friday” (Stock Market) some years back?

Tripler
I’m just fishing for clues at this point. . .

13

Thanks, y’all. I appreciate the replies.

The only event I’ve been able to find for October 3, 2002 was Hurricane Lilli’s landfall in Louisiana.. It caused $430 million in damage and resulted in two indirect deaths–not good, but not particularly horrible as hurricanes go, either.

Other than that, I’m stumped.

14

It’s thin, but 10/02/2002 was the date that the joint resolution authorizing military action in Iraq was introduced in Congress. One would think that the the date of the vote was more significant, but who knows?

15

October surprise? Oh, two years early…
Maybe for the off-year elections?

But… if it’s political, why the slashes?

This may turn into a new ‘1920’s style death-ray’ kinda reference…

  1. Anyone know when this happened?
  2. I think it was 10-03-2002!
16

The military?

I do, all the time. But I spell out the month.

17

Maybe it was the car owner’s wedding anniversary?

And October 3 is German Unification Day, if memory serves correctly.

18

So does the military. For example: 2 Oct 02.

Tripler
Today would be 10 Feb 05

19

It’s the day someone decided to create a cryptic unsolvable puzzle.

I mean, duh.

20

I’d check for dates one day later than the ones you’re searching for. News stories for things that happened on March 10th might be dated March 11th.