Re: Does anyone really know what time it is?

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:52:47 -0400 "Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>
writes:
> 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

Sounds like you've been in the woods of Vermont a little too long,  time
to come home Billy ;-)))
dave