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July 7, 2007
07-07-07
I feel like I have to blog today... it's the seventh day of the seventh month in the seventh year of this millennium, and everyone is making a huge deal about it.
Lucky number 7. It's interesting how we associate certain numbers with feelings or luck or unluck (the opposite of 7, perhaps, being 13--my favorite number). Evidently there are thousands of couples getting married today. I wouldn't be surprised if folks played seven-studded numbers for the lottery. Will there be a party at 7 tonight?
I'm not doing anything special today. (It's too hot to do much anyway--it's going to be over 90º again today.) I don't have any attachment to the number except that July is a nice month and I love the joke that ends with "7 ate 9."
Posted by KarissaKilgore at July 7, 2007 7:07 AM
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My nine-year-old rates that joke as comedy gold. He's been telling it to me every couple of days for several weeks.
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz 
at July 7, 2007 6:17 PM
That makes me smile. To me, it is comedic gold. There are only a few jokes that get me every single time, and that's one of them. (Same with "linoleum blown apart" and "sandy claws.")
Unfortunately, as a mini-update, 07-07-07 has been far from a lucky day for me. Oh well. I didn't have any superstition that things would be better... but I guess I anticipated a normal day and not such a bad one.
Posted by: Karissa at July 7, 2007 7:26 PM
I know the sandy claws joke, but I don't know the setup for linoleum blown apart. Any connection to Napoleon Dynamite (which I still haven't seen)?
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at July 7, 2007 8:03 PM
Glad you know the sandy claws joke. That means your children have been repeating it since I told it to them?
Haha, the linoleum joke has no connection to that movie (it's an okay flick). Here's the set up: What do you get when you throw a grenade into a kitchen? Linoleum blown apart! (Yeah, it's obvious why I love that one... geeky. I've been telling it since I was about 12.)
Posted by: Karissa at July 8, 2007 11:32 AM