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Former American Press sportswriter Carl Dubois blogs about the games people play, in and out of sports, and the people you meet between and outside the lines.

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Nine slash nine slash nine

Posted September 8, 2009 at 10:17 pm
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BATON ROUGE — It’s a good thing Obama didn’t schedule his speech to school children for 09/09/09. It would have been interpreted as even more of a sign of the apocalypse than it was on a random Tuesday.

So, is Wednesday going to be more exciting and significant than 08/08/08 was? Or 07/07/07? This link will take you to a story that says this will mark the last set of repeating, single-digit dates for nearly a century.

Double-digit versions? Well, we only have to wait until 10/10/10.

Do you suppose a lot of people will get as many nines as they can onto their lottery tickets on 09/09/09?

I’m reminded of a story (and this is one version of many) about a man who was born on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the century, the seventh day of the week. He was the seventh son of a seventh son, he had seven brothers, and that made seven sevens, he noted.

On his 27th birthday, he went to the track. The seventh numbered horse in the seventh race was named Seventh Heaven and was handicapped seven stone. The odds against Seventh Heaven were seven-to-one, but the man bet seven shillings.

The horse finished seventh.

Have fun with numerology on 09/09/09, but don’t take it too seriously.

Unless you win the lottery. Then, I’d like a cut for reminding you to play.

Speaking of the seventh son of a seventh son, here’s a musical interlude. Have a good day.