May 22 is the Expression error: unrecognised punctuation character
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Google's currently pimping doodle4google, a drawing contest for kids. The winner gets their doodle on the google homepage on May 22nd. Since google usually puts their special logos up on holidays, I thought I'd search to see if the 22nd is a holiday.
First hit is this beautiful answers.com page:
"May 22 is the Expression error: unrecognised punctuation character "{"th day of the year Expression error: unrecognised punctuation character "{" in the Gregorian calendar..."
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The WTF in the google doodle is this >>
Mail your school's entries to this address by April 12, 2008 (entries must be postmarked by 11:59:59 pm that day):
Google Inc.
Doodle 4 Google competition
PO BOX 391000
Mountain View, CA 94039-1000I heard there was a way you could do these things paperlessly these days ... communicate somehow without the help of the post office. Trying to remember the term here.... e ... electronic! Yes Electronic Mail ... or email I guess. I wonder if google knows anyone that provide these email services?
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Mail your school's entries to this address by April 12, 2008 (entries must be postmarked by 11:59:59 pm that day):
TRWTF is the requirement for postmarking on the second, or wording signifying so.
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How many post offices actually stay up to postmark things at 11:59:59PM on days other than April 15th?
Maybe this is just google's way of helping forgetful parents send in their returns three days early? "Oh crap! I need to turn in my kids doodle! Oh double crap! I need to do my taxes! Sorry kid, no time to run to the post office now. I've got mounds and mounds of ill-conceived beurocracy to attend to."
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@vt_mruhlin said:
How many post offices actually stay up to postmark things at 11:59:59PM on days other than April 15th?
Could this be a joke, a pun, a humorous reference?
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@vt_mruhlin said:
How many post offices actually stay up to postmark things at 11:59:59PM on days other than April 15th?
Even so it would be 3 days late.
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@vt_mruhlin said:
How many post offices actually stay up to postmark things at 11:59:59PM on days other than April 15th?
Maybe this is just google's way of helping forgetful parents send in their returns three days early? "Oh crap! I need to turn in my kids doodle! Oh double crap! I need to do my taxes! Sorry kid, no time to run to the post office now. I've got mounds and mounds of ill-conceived beurocracy to attend to."
My local post office does...
The only problem is that they stay up miss-filing all the mail at 11:59:59! Caz mail delivered to the right address is against their code of honor.
I often get mail from my neighbors, and more often get mail from neighboring buildings!
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@medialint said:
I heard there was a way you could do these things paperlessly these days ... communicate somehow without the help of the post office. Trying to remember the term here.... e ... electronic! Yes Electronic Mail ... or email I guess. I wonder if google knows anyone that provide these email services?
I wouldn't trust a bunch of elementary school teachers to produce quality, high res scans, and be able to get large images through their districts' email filters, some of which undoubtably limit attachment size.
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@merreborn said:
Google's currently pimping doodle4google, a drawing contest for kids. The winner gets their doodle on the google homepage on May 22nd. Since google usually puts their special logos up on holidays, I thought I'd search to see if the 22nd is a holiday.
First hit is this beautiful answers.com page:
"May 22 is the Expression
error: unrecognised punctuation character "{"th day of the year Expression error: unrecognised punctuation character "{" in the
Gregorian calendar..."The correct answer (tadah): Answers.com probably has a f'd up/misinstalled version of ParserFunctions extension. (The text comes from Wikipedia's Template:Day which uses ParserFunctions). That, or something else funny is going on. (That, or maybe it's somehow related to the funny changes in the bleeding-edge MediaWiki preprocessor code. Could affect the extensions. Heck if I know.)
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@dlikhten said:
The only problem is that they stay up miss-filing all the mail at 11:59:59! Caz mail delivered to the right address is against their code of honor.
What's Caz mail?
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@Kyanar said:
@dlikhten said:
The only problem is that they stay up miss-filing all the mail at 11:59:59! Caz mail delivered to the right address is against their code of honor.
What's Caz mail?
Is anyone else sick of all this baby talk?