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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

What were you doing at 11/11/11/11/11?

I love these special dates, my passport was dated 7.7.77.

Sadly, there won't be any more like this after 12/12/12.

[Smile]

[ 01. December 2011, 07:49: Message edited by: Firenze ]

Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :

When I saw 11.11.11.11.11.11, I thought it was going to be a question about a very unusual hymn metre!

At 11 past 11 this morning, we were just finishing our short remembrance service in the hospital chapel. Good turnout, and really rather moving that about a dozen members of staff used some of their break time to come.

Posted by Athrawes (# 9594) on :

At 11 past 11, I was walking a group of school children back from our local Remembrance Day service. There weren't many people there; it's not a public holiday here, and is overshadowed by ANZAC Day. But most of those present were children, so hopefully the waste and futility of war won't be forgotten.

Posted by wilson (# 37) on :

Having had the luxury of a day off work I had a lie-in and read a chapter of my book, dozed and then got up. I'm not sure I can say precisely but at 11:11 I was either in my shower or spreading cream cheese on my toast and pouring coffee.

Posted by Jengie Jon (# 273) on :

I can tell you what I was doing. Reading the electricity meter. I only know that because in doing it I had to look at the time.

Jengie

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

Staring at my pc in a very quiet office thinking about the senselessness of war, the heroism, and McCrae's immortal poem In Flanders Fields which I always re-read on this day. I then realized it was 11.11.

Posted by bib (# 13074) on :

I was actually cleaning out a patient's tracheostomy tube at the hospital where I work. Unpleasant but necessary job. Everything at the hospital paused at 11am to listen to the ode over the PA, hold one minute's silence, repeat lest we forget, then it was back to work.

Posted by Roseofsharon (# 9657) on :

Talking about the Memorial Arboretum with my knitting and crochet group. We had seen scenes from there on the TV while observing the 2 minutes silence

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

After the two minute silence we had just reconvened a requirements workshop with a couple of business users. Heavy stuff, but it went well.

Posted by Moo (# 107) on :

It won't be 11.11.11.11.11.11. here for another three and a half hours.

Moo

Posted by shamwari (# 15556) on :

Two hours earlier I was watching the SA v Australia Test in CapeTown. They are two hours ahead,

The scoreboard flashed 11.11.11.11.11. And to crown it all SA needed 111 runs to win at the time.

Posted by Jante (# 9163) on :

Just back into a lecture after the act of rememberence at our war memorial.

Posted by ken (# 2460) on :

Just getting back to work after having popped round to Tavistock Square to be quiet for a few minutes at 11am.

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

I was nearing the end of my first scrabble game of the morning. One of the words (not mine) was 'wars', which was rather appropriate.

Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :

I was still telling a young office trainee what was the significance of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Apparently he quit history before they did the first world war at school. He also though Armistice Day "celebrated" the Vietnam War as well as the Second World War (not a mention of the Great War, Korea or the Falklands let alone any of the other wars he could have picked from).

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

I was at work, writing a rather tedious report.

The Netherlands didn't participate in WWI, so the day doen't have as much meaning to me (except for children going through the streets with paper lanterns for St. Martin's Day).

Posted by joan knox (# 16100) on :

Leaving the lecture room where our war memorial is situated in uni. after having had our act of remembrance. First time we'd actually done it, as I recall: I don't think we knew the plaque was there - it's normally hidden by a grand piano.
Yes, it is an odd lecture room!

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

Getting my photo taken for the staff magazine at work.

To be more exact: pulling faces at my coworkers from behind the photographer's back as an amusing diversion while I was waiting for him to get round to me. [Snigger]

Posted by Scarlet (# 1738) on :

~~~ adding my 4500th post to the Ship ~~~

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Scarlet:
~~~ adding my 4500th post to the Ship ~~~

You win

Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on :

I was folding laundry...after wishing my dad (Korean war vet) a happy Veterans Day!

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

In the toilet.

Watched Channel's 5's series on World War One survivors a little later.

Posted by WhateverTheySay (# 16598) on :

Being a night owl, I was asleep. [Hot and Hormonal]

Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :

The office radio went fussy, and someone noticed it was 11.00 and said that it was likely to be for the silence. We all stopped what we were doing and kept silent for about a minute - OK, not the full 2 minutes, but this is the first office I've worked in where everyone has observed the silence.

Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :

Issuing end of lesson instructions, and reminders of who had to be where next!

Posted by CuppaT (# 10523) on :

At an intense daytime choir rehearsal for the Brahms Requiem performance next week. The normal choir director wasn't there, but the Bulgarian genius pianist may have been even tougher. She pulled nuances out of the movements as if it were Holy Scripture. My children, as usual, sat in a corner quietly doing their school work first, and then playing on their game units.

Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :

Oh, and congratulating the class on the best observance of the two minute silence I've been involved in for a while.

Posted by NJA (# 13022) on :

So it's 11/11/11.

Not the first time Man United fans have seen 6-1's this year.

Posted by Gee D (# 13815) on :

Back at work, after all in the courtroom observed the silence at 11.00.

Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :

I was in Asda.
It was moving that such a huge supermarket came to a halt and held the silence for 2 minutes.

Posted by Kyzyl (# 374) on :

I was sitting through a rather boring presentation while gazing out the floor to ceiling windows at snow-capped Pike's Peak. A perfect room for a bad presentation, IMO.

Posted by Rowen (# 1194) on :

I was at the town square, at the service... The biggest crowd ever- about 70, including several tourists, with cars and caravans, who stopped to join us.
As the only minister in town, I was leadings prayers, and laid a wreather from church.
It was a lovely time...

Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :

Mr. Lamb was helping me get surgical scrubs on. We'll see in nine months whether this day has other personal reasons for remembrance for us!

Posted by Horseman Bree (# 5290) on :

I was helping to organise the laying of memorial crosses at our local Remembrance event, with about 370 people present. Good turnout of active service members as well as the few remaining WW2s.

There were at least 6 ministers present, but the event was run by two Anglican layreaders.

Posted by piglet (# 11803) on :

As Remembrance Day is a public holiday here, I was having a lie-in, although I heard the marching band going down to the War Memorial and the gun marking the start of the two minutes' silence.

Like lots of other people, I'll do my remembering on Sunday at church.

Posted by Angel Wrestler (# 13673) on :

I was reading a book of Lewis Grizzard's columns that I'd just bought for $1 and eating at a frozen yogurt restaurant. (I had a bit of pomegranate and a bit of citrus blend, topped with fresh coconut and fruity pebbles)

eta: Lewis Grizzard

[ 12. November 2011, 02:23: Message edited by: Angel Wrestler ]

Posted by Angel Wrestler (# 13673) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Mr. Lamb was helping me get surgical scrubs on. We'll see in nine months whether this day has other personal reasons for remembrance for us!

Should I

or should I [Eek!]

or should I [Yipee]

Posted by Gay Organ Grinder (# 11833) on :

Grocery Shopping

Posted by comet (# 10353) on :

playing matchmaker with the ginormous sock box while listening to the radio and watching it snow.

(that was for the AM version, the PM version isn't due for another two hours)

[ 12. November 2011, 05:02: Message edited by: comet ]

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

Yesterday on 11.11.11, my niece was born!

The Lord is great.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

Sweet!

Are you going to call her Undecima?

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

Excellent, and a little unbeatable. Prosaic, by comparison, I was having a Really Bad Latte™ in a nearby apology for a coffee shop.

Posted by Malin (# 11769) on :

I was helping tidy up after a playgroup in the village hall and watching Malinette and Malino running up and down with the other kids as we cleared the floor.

Only remembered the time again once we got home and was sad to have missed the moment as I like to keep the silence.

Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
Sweet!

Are you going to call her Undecima?

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Mr. Lamb was helping me get surgical scrubs on. We'll see in nine months whether this day has other personal reasons for remembrance for us!

Medical procedure or role play? Either way I hope for the best. [Smile]

[ 12. November 2011, 14:09: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]

Posted by St. Stephen the Stoned (# 9841) on :

My partner had had a nasty fall the night before, and he was lying still in bed. When he turned onto his side to use the bed bottle* the pain kicked in. He did not observe the Silence.

*aka Mrs Peabody

Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :

quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:

quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Mr. Lamb was helping me get surgical scrubs on. We'll see in nine months whether this day has other personal reasons for remembrance for us!
Medical procedure or role play? Either way I hope for the best.

I'm just going to ... contemplate ... that uh, scenario.

[Devil]

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

I was watching Eddie Murphy and his colleagues in an exciting romp at the cinema known as Tower Heist. There were fewer than five other people there.

Posted by OhSimone (# 16414) on :

Probably just joined the M6 near Walsall, heading to Leicestershire for my uncle's funeral.

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

quote:
Firenze: Are you going to call her Undecima?

Hehe, I don't think I would want to bestow that on a child. Anyway, this uncle had very little to say about the name of his niece. And my brother and sister-in-law gave her a lovely name (which has nothing to do with the number 11 [Biased]

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