12-12-12

Its 12-12-12! For some people its just another Wednesday in just another December in just another year... but today is the last of the great repeating dates we will see in our lifetime and our last chance to get excited about a date like this for many years to come. While many are commemorating about this magical date, I have put together a little list with the help of my good friend google of 12 notable 12's in our life's followed by a dozen things to be in the know about on 12-12-12... 

12 Notable 12's
12 Months in a year
12 Inches in a foot
12 Conference members in the Pac-12
12 Signs of the Zodiac
12 Dialing keys on a telephone (including * & #)
12 Golden yellow stars on the flag of Europe
12 Men have walked on the moon
12 apostles of Jesus
12 Makes a dozen
12 Face cards in a deck
12 Steps in Alcoholics Anonymous

12-12-12 In the Know

• Alabama teenager Kiam Moriya turns 12 at 12:12 on 12-12. — Emirates247.com

 

• Pope Benedict XVI has opened a personal Twitter account, and he is scheduled to answer a question about faith in his first tweet, scheduled for 12-12-12, according to Vatican officials. — CNN belief blog

• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are set to open 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden in New York. It is being billed as the largest event in music history.

• Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers wears No. 12. "So earlier this year the state Legislature designated the day [12-12-12] Aaron Rodgers Day in honor of the Super Bowl winner and last year’s MVP." — The Washington Post
• Such numerical happenings as 12-12-12 spook some people while enthralling others. Some see the tick, tick, ticking of the calendar as magical or especially lucky.

• Be in the twitter know re peeps 12-12-12 tweets

• Check out the NY Times content-free fluff piece which strives to assign some significant meaning to the arbitrary assembly of numbers. 

• If 12 is your lucky number, today is as good as it gets!

 

• Check one-two-one-two... Appropriately... today has been dubbed National Soundcheck Day

• The Ancient Mayan calendar speaks of 12-12-2012 as the end of times as we know it.
• After today, there won't be another triple date to match until Jan. 1, 2101. 

• I think its a nice tie-in for publishing my post on 12-12-12 at precisely 12.