Today

[*skriptis]

<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12>


August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years ) in
the Gregorian calendar.
There are 141 days remaining until the end of the year.
This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday
or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57),
and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday
(56).


Yet it happened. It's Saturday. The fact something is not likely,
doesn't mean it can't happen.

Fedfuckers seem not to have understood Whisper's prediction when
it comes to Federer at AO and Federer and Nadal at Wimbledon this
year.


Also, today is Sampras' birthday and his also his successor
Tsitsipas' with whom he shares many symbols, lucky numbers, name
letters etc.


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[joh]

Op zaterdag 12 augustus 2017 15:43:55 UTC+2 schreef *skriptis:

thanks, fascinating stuff

[RaspingDrive]

On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 9:43:55 AM UTC-4, *skriptis wrote:
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12>
>
>
> August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years ) in
> the Gregorian calendar.
> There are 141 days remaining until the end of the year.
> This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday
> or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57),
> and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday
> (56).
>
>
> Yet it happened. It's Saturday. The fact something is not likely,
> doesn't mean it can't happen.

"Slightly less likely" became "not likely"? Nice Whisperian touch.

> Fedfuckers seem not to have understood Whisper's prediction when
> it comes to Federer at AO and Federer and Nadal at Wimbledon this
> year.

Common sense says one should never dis*count* a 15-slams champ on any *count*, including the slam *count* variety (!) Nadal is Nadal and is dangerous if given a chance to escape tricky early round(s).

> Also, today is Sampras' birthday and his also his successor
> Tsitsipas' with whom he shares many symbols, lucky numbers, name
> letters etc.

Happy Birthday Sampras, the fabulous erstwhile W record holder.

[Brian W Lawrence]

On 12/08/2017 17:05, RaspingDrive wrote:
> On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 9:43:55 AM UTC-4, *skriptis wrote:
>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12>
>>
>>
>> August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years ) in
>> the Gregorian calendar.
>> There are 141 days remaining until the end of the year.
>> This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday
>> or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57),
>> and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday
>> (56).
>>
>>
>> Yet it happened. It's Saturday. The fact something is not likely,
>> doesn't mean it can't happen.
>
> "Slightly less likely" became "not likely"? Nice Whisperian touch.

You beat me to that. Aug 12 2017 was 'always' going to be a Saturday -
or at least since the present calendar was established.



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[RaspingDrive]

On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 12:28:03 PM UTC-4, Brian W Lawrence wrote:
> On 12/08/2017 17:05, RaspingDrive wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 9:43:55 AM UTC-4, *skriptis wrote:
> >> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12>
> >>
> >>
> >> August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years ) in
> >> the Gregorian calendar.
> >> There are 141 days remaining until the end of the year.
> >> This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday
> >> or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57),
> >> and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday
> >> (56).
> >>
> >>
> >> Yet it happened. It's Saturday. The fact something is not likely,
> >> doesn't mean it can't happen.
> >
> > "Slightly less likely" became "not likely"? Nice Whisperian touch.
>
> You beat me to that. Aug 12 2017 was 'always' going to be a Saturday -
> or at least since the present calendar was established.
>

What Skriptis probably meant was that if one chose a random August 12 in a 400 year period, one was marginally less likely to have it fall on a Saturday. How he extrapolated "slightly less likely" to infer "not likely" beats me. In the Whisperian world such tactics are common place.