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Today is Veteran’s Day, celebrated elsewhere in the world (and once upon a time in America) as Armistice Day.

This is a holiday to remember the end of World War I which formally took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Naturally, people wanted a holiday to remember WWI aka “The Great War” aka “The War to End All Wars” (SPOILER ALERT: didn’t actually end all wars).

But I think maybe people just wanted a holiday about the date eleven-eleven. It’s cool to say eleven-eleven. Eleven is the smallest number to have three-syllables in it. And unlike the next three-syllable number “seventeen”, eleven sounds pretty… I’d have to be pretty drunk to want to say “seventeen-seventeen”!

In numerical form, 11 11 also looks cool. If I catch the clock when it’s 11:11, I say a wish. How about you?

So here we are on the eleventh day of the eleventh month and our producer widget is flashing $1,110 – just $1 short of $1,111!

My 11/11 wish is that someone donates the $1 to get us up to $1,111.

And then my $1,111 wish is that we’re speedily helped along to $2,222. My birthday is 2/2 so I’m pretty keen on those twos too.

In exchange for your dollar (or larger contribution) you will actually become a producer of the next Internets Celebrities video. We’ve already started on one about Real Estate and gentrification but we’re thinking about getting out a smaller one first, interviewing kids who sell candy on the subway. We take producer feedback very seriously so if you want to weigh in with suggestions on either of the above ideas or other suggestions.. Put your money down and holler at will!

Happy repeating digits day. And chea to all the world’s veterans. The IC’s salute you.