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This christmas is day #55555 on astronomers' timescale (modified julian date).

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In Thai language, 5 is pronounced 'haa'. People use it in IM as a replacement for 'lol'; thus sentences are often suffixed with '555'.

Today is obviously the funniest day ever.

For the curious who want to hear it:

    http://www.thai-language.com/id/134341

I know this is being hyper-geeky but I've never appreciated these kinds of alignments because they are just based on arbitrary man-made starting points.

If you want to impress me, show me all the planets in a solar system in a row.

Moon alignment = bonus points.

Unfortunately we have to wait until September 2040 for that around here.

ps. was that lunar eclipse amazing or what?

I wonder why this isn't mentioned in the Principia Discordia

Some things the Goddess keeps to herself. Others, she leaves for us mortals to find, like breadcrumbs leading to a shack full of fireworks - and you having to light a match to see where you are.

And yet others, Mankind makes for himself, and Goddess can only sit back, pour herself one, spark up a spliff and laugh at our inability to see the consequences.

Aww, crap, I missed it. It was something like 8:20AM EST

since when?

00:00 November 17, 1858, Wednesday (from wikipedia)

Around 8:30 EST will 55555.55555.

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