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10-24-2010, 05:18 AM
First let's take a quick tangent to lead up to this, I don't know whether it is an old folk tale or just happens to be true but the story goes Samuel Clemens better known as Mark Twain was born on the day Haley's comet zipped past the earth. From wikipeadia:
American satirist and writer Mark Twain was born on 30 November 1835, exactly two weeks after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, published in 1909, he said,
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'[72]
Twain died on 21 April 1910, the day following the comet's subsequent perihelion.[73] The 1985 fantasy film The Adventures of Mark Twain was inspired by the quotation.
The symmetry would be almost too perfect. Duncan get's his first championship in 1999 during a lockout shortened year and is allowed to go out with a shortened season in which the health of his team is far more likely to be a non factor. And even more importantly if the Spurs manage to win on this year it could be as the first time Duncan breaks the even year curse.
American satirist and writer Mark Twain was born on 30 November 1835, exactly two weeks after the comet's perihelion. In his autobiography, published in 1909, he said,
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'[72]
Twain died on 21 April 1910, the day following the comet's subsequent perihelion.[73] The 1985 fantasy film The Adventures of Mark Twain was inspired by the quotation.
The symmetry would be almost too perfect. Duncan get's his first championship in 1999 during a lockout shortened year and is allowed to go out with a shortened season in which the health of his team is far more likely to be a non factor. And even more importantly if the Spurs manage to win on this year it could be as the first time Duncan breaks the even year curse.