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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,895
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SCadaddle
Has it ever occurred to anyone else, that kids born in the digital age have no idea what you are saying with "it's a quarter to five" or "half past six"?
With regard to that Walmart clock, I can see "Happy hour from 5 to something like 3"?
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One of the standard cognitive tests given to this old geezer is to hand me a paper & pen, ask me to draw a clock showing the time of eight-twenty.
Wish I was artistic...I'm tempted to draw a casio digital face showing 8:20:00.
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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