john@hp-pcd.UUCP (john) (02/11/85)
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Reminds me of an ad I once saw in the personal section of the local paper:
To the owner of a Blue Chevy Lic # XXX-YYYYY: Your lights are on.
John Eaton
!hplabs!hp-pcd!johninc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) (02/18/85)
> Could someone please tell me the time? > > brian redman Maybe you should ask the guy who was seeking "information" last year...he had no requirements as to topic or amount of information: all he wanted was high-quality stuff. I recall that he, too, promised to summarize to the net, but I don't think he ever did. Perhaps someone gave him the time as a piece of information? It would be worth checking at least. Go on: spend a few grand on a posting to net.misc, .general, .announce, .nlang, ... And don't forget to summarize! My god, such an important topic surely deserves the attention of the civilized world! -- Gary Benson {allegra microsoft ssc-vax telematic uw-beaver wavetek} fluke!inc John Fluke Mfg Co MS 232-E PO Box C 9090 Everett WA USA 98206 (206) 356-5367
psl@petrus.UUCP (02/19/85)
> Could someone please tell me the time? Please send responses > directly to me, I will summarize for the net. > > brian redman That's ridiculous! If we all send the time to Brian and he summarizes for the net there will be an unavoidable delay while he waits for all the responses to accumulate. As a result the times will be hopelessly out of synchronization! Instead, everybody should call him with the time! But in order to avoid synchronization delays everyone should call at the same time ... How about if we all call at 14:00 (EST) on Friday, Feb. 22nd? But wait! We still need to synchronize our watches... Okay, get ready... On my signal set your watches (I'm dialing the time number just to be extra accurate) to 17:00 (Monday, 2/18) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... MARK! Oh yes, Brian's number is (201) 829-2884
davis@hplabs.UUCP (Jim Davis) (02/20/85)
BR> Could someone please tell me the time? Please send responses
BR> directly to me, I will summarize for the net. brian redman
P>
. . .
P> Instead, everybody should call him with the time! But in order to avoid
P> synchronization delays everyone should call at the same time ...
P> How about if we all call at 14:00 (EST) on Friday, Feb. 22nd?
P> But wait! We still need to synchronize our watches... Okay, get ready...
P> On my signal set your watches (I'm dialing the time number just to be
P> extra accurate) to 17:00 (Monday, 2/18) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
P> ... ... ... ... ... ... ... MARK!
P> Oh yes, Brian's number is (201) 829-2884
If that is really his number we should call. Brian, do you mind a
collect call -- since I will be doing you a service, and you did
ask? Oh, BTW its 23:03:37 2/19/1985 right now! ( <= time "!" was typed)
( I hate contributing to the delequency of the net, but it is fun.
Though shouting to friends in a theater might be so considered, and
I think it (such shouting) is stupid. Why does so much of what I
see remind me of people shouting back and forth across a crowded room? )
(Note above misspelling of "delinquency". It is important to keep the
wolves happy; one spelling mistake should do it.)
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----------------------------------rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (02/20/85)
[] I have yet to see any profound replies to the original query. Everyone seems to be skimming the surface. What time is it indeed. Of course the author knows the clock time. It is the TIME for which he seeketh. It is time to stop wasting the net's time with sill-assed experiments on net.general. It is time that intelligent adult net commissars renamed net.general to something that doesn't suggest net.everything.goes. (even net.general.interest would be an improvement) It is time we stopped making an understanding of the spirituality of net.general part of the usenet "rites of passage." It is time that we realized that there is no such thing as an article of interest to literally everyone on the net from Alice to Timbuctu. We should settle for P=0.5 of interest to 0.5 of the population, which means it is OK if it is not of interest to ME. (Oh, God, it hurts, it hurts, but I guess it's necessary) -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
gnome@oliveb.UUCP (Gary Traveis) (02/20/85)
It sounds a little like
"What is it and how can it be cured!?"
"... Actually, IT is a Westfalian ham and we are curing it with
Mesquite..."
If you write to the net asking what time it is, you'd be better
off writing a letter to the David Letterman show -- They can
tell you what time it is MUCH faster.
Garydavid@daisy.UUCP (David Schachter) (02/21/85)
Friday, Feb. 22, of what year? This takes us back to the question of leap
years-- heh heh heh.
(generic disclaimer) {N.F.Q.}dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) (02/22/85)
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Isn't technology great! Today if you want to know the time you simply
dial the time service (Speaking Clock to folks in the UK). In the days
before the phone, you had to write.
--
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706
(919) 684-3695
USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgarykaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP (02/23/85)
/* Written 2:29 pm Feb 20, 1985 by gnome@oliveb in uiucdcs:net.general */ If you write to the net asking what time it is, you'd be better off writing a letter to the David Letterman show -- They can tell you what time it is MUCH faster. Gary /* End of text from uiucdcs:net.general */ Maybe we should go into competition with Late Night. Anyone for Stupid Net Tricks? Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman) "The computer is your friend."
ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) (02/25/85)
> Isn't technology great! Today if you want to know the time you simply > dial the time service (Speaking Clock to folks in the UK). In the days > before the phone, you had to write. > -- D Gary Grady Not only that, but in those days, when a reply arrived, the "date" portion of the time would still be correct! And you had a better-than-90% chance of delivery, too! -- Norman Diamond UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra}!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond CSNET: ndiamond%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet ARPA: ndiamond%watdaisy%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa "Opinions are those of the keyboard, and do not reflect on me or higher-ups."
pc@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell) (03/01/85)
<munch> Didn't a Mr Einstein have something to say about this subject? Paul Campbell ucbvax!unisoft!paul "Lets do the Mac ..."
dave@circadia.UUCP (David Messer) (03/05/85)
> Didn't a Mr Einstein have something to say about this subject? > > Paul Campbell ucbvax!unisoft!paul I didn't know he was on the net :-) -- Dave Messer ...inhp4!stolaf!umn-cs!circadia!dave