Citations:today's lucky 10,000

English citations of today's lucky 10,000 and today's lucky ten thousand

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• 2018, Justin Lee, Talking Across the Divide, New York: TarcherPerigee, →ISBN, page 169:

  Most of us don't respond with that kind of enthusiasm when we realize that someone we're talking to doesn't know something that we think should be obvious. Instead of treating them as "one of today's lucky 10,000," we treat them as an annoyance or make fun of them for living under a rock.

• 2018, Justin Lee, Talking Across the Divide, New York: TarcherPerigee, →ISBN, page 170:

  If you think like the second-grade students, you may easily find yourself becoming impatient when you encounter someone who hasn't yet mastered the basics of your issue. […] But there are still metaphorical second graders out there—today's lucky ten thousand—who need to learn about the basics for the first time.

• 2019, Randall Munroe, How To‎^[1], New York: Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

  That's why I don't like making fun of people for admitting they don't know something or never learned how to do something. Because if you do that, all it does is teach them not to tell you when they're learning something… and you miss out on the fun.
  This book may not teach you how to throw a ball, how to ski, or how to move. But I hope you learn something from it. If you do, you're one of today's lucky 10,000.

• 2019 January 28, Dan Purgert, “Have You Been Pwned? Do you have a working cross-platform PASSWD database for Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, & Android on your home LAN?”, in comp.mobile.android‎^[2] (Usenet):

  Wait, you mean to tell me GG is part of Usenet?!
  Here I was just under the impression it was a repository for Unenet, rather than actually a _part_ of it.
  Well, guess I'm one of today's lucky 10,000. (https://xkcd.com/1053/)

• 2020, Gillian "Gus" Andrews, Keep Calm and Log On, Cambridge: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 73:

  If you really have good friends, they should be excited to share their cool treasures with you whenever you're ready, not be rude to you because you're not "with it" yet.
  So go find the cool things "everyone already knows about." You're one of today's lucky 10,000.