RE: Does anyone really know what time it is?

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>]

> I was just pointing out something that I found weird.
> With millions of dollars invested in the market , I
> think Citadel would buy a clock that could keep time.
> I didn't slam them for it.  They went a week giving
> the wrong time last fall.  Maybe it's part of a bit.
>
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

Even my <ack> Compaq laptop corrects time with NistTime server a
couple of times a day (can be set to any interval).  Well, 12:41,
no, it's 12:38, no wait....

Reminds me of a pet peeve - NOT as bad as snow being "the white
stuff" but close - analog time and then the digital conversion.
Pull-eze.  "Twelve forty one, that's twenty one minutes before one
o'clock (for you freakin' idiot bozos who need friends to remind you
to zip your fly, or perhaps you need a radio station for THAT
too.....)"  "It may rain today, so you may need _that umbrella_"
(Firing squad ready.)  If you're talking rain protection, be a grown
up and push RUBBERS and see how your numbers jazz.

"If you have a circular driveway, chances are you don't have to back
out into the street."  (Why not?)  "<Jock Name> along for the
ride/on your ride home/ridin' with YA/keepin' you company/annoying
the bleepin' snot out of you/stealing valuable oxygen and a two-bit
paycheck."  <Mother mother make it stop..<pea soup projectile sfx>
And my all time fave, "Hope you're having a nice day." <gas pipe
sfx>  "DRIV-ing FIF-tee THOU-sand watts of POW-wer...." <locked ward
sfx faded>

Bill O'Neill