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Wayne Shorter, Bo Diddley, George Strait
What day is it? December 12, 2012? December 12, 2012 can be abbreviated as 12-12-12 or 12/12/12 or 12.12.12 or spoken Twelve Twelve Twelve, Doce Doce Doce, Douze Douze Douze, Dodici Dodici Dodici, Zwölf Zwölf Zwölf or hundreds of other ways. If you've been near social media, you also know that this will be the last repetitive date ever. (That's true only if a 13th month is never added to our calendar. There could be a 13th month because like copyright terms, Viagra and Cialis, there's always someone who wants to lengthen something.)
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In keeping with the number 12, I'd like to offer favorite songs of mine that have something to do with the number 12. The easy and predicatable thing would have been 12-tone (twelve tone) music. But I'll resist the easy and go for something more eclectic - songs about "12" and tweets about "12."I posted a riddle last night - what do Wayne Shorter, Bo Diddley and George Strait have in common? As far as I know, the answer is that each recorded a song whose title contains the word, "Twelve." These three (3) songs have little else in common except for the number twelve (12) in the titles. That's it. Riddle solved.
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Wayne Shorter - Twelve More Bars To Go
In an instrumental, do you know if Wayne Shorter is referring to 12 bars of living, 12 bars of playing or 12 bars on my way home?
Bo Diddley - The Clock Strikes Twelve
This is one of Bo Diddley's more unusual songs - an instrumental. Yes, that is Bo Diddley playing violin. This is not the braggadocio Bo - no "cobra snake for a necktie" kind of thing.
George Strait - Four Down And Twelve Across
"awkward puzzle, fill in the blanks..." One can easily make that phrase deep or leave it as something pertaining to a board game.
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This started out to be twelve (12) tweets about 12 12 12, and then I found a few more I wanted to copy. If 12 is good, more than 12 is better. Here are more than 12 tweets about 12 12 12.
The Daily Yomiuri
@DailyYomiuriThe time in Japan is now 12:12 p.m. on December 12, 2012...that's12:12, 12/12/12.
01/01/01✔ 02/02/02✔ 03/03/03✔ 04/04/04✔ 05/05/05✔ 06/06/06✔ 07/07/07✔ 08/08/08✔ 09/09/09✔ 10/10/10✔ 11/11/11 ✔and today 12/12/12.ぴょんまこ
@yugurenofuku12/12/12 12:12 ＼(^o^)／
David Pogue, Technology writer for The New York Times, repeated what some of my recording engineer friends had already said last night:
Hey, tomorrow is National Sound Check Day! 12/12/12... (What will you be doing at 12:12:12?)
Two (2) 12-12-12 sports tweets:Randy Cruz @cruzr83The Lakers may not be thrilled with 12/12/12 tomorrow since they're 12th in the Western Conference.Happy 12.12.12 -- NFL QBs wearing #12 have won 15 Super Bowls. That’s more than double the next-best mark (#16 has won 7)
Tomorrow is 12-12-12 which means I'll have to blood sacrifice twice as many goats as I did for 6-6-6. :(The Mayan Calendar predicted that on 12-12-12 there would be some really bad tweets about 12-12-12. Like this one.Pretty cool how on 12/12/12 in 1912 no one said anything at all because we're idiots now.Happy 12.12.12., YouScoopers! What are the 12 Philippine issues that are most important to you?#SabihinMo12/12/12 & 12/21/12 will be the most annoying days in Twitter history.
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Путин обратится к Федеральному Собранию 12.12.12: Буддийские астрологи считают эту дату… http://goo.gl/fb/tdc02
Twelve~Twelve~Twelve~make it memorable in a positive way. Be especially nice to ~Twelve~ people, complete ~Twelve~random acts of kindness ☺
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I got my Vizify account yesterday. My life, thankfully, can be reduced to a few pages. I hope talk about social media and metrics tomorrow. No more twelves!