BS: Time for Tomorrow

Subject: Time for Tomorrow
From: GUEST,Betelgeuse
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 10:49 AM

As the clock ticks over from 8:01 PM on Wednesday, 20 February, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event which has only happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated.

The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24 hour clock): 10:01 AM, on 10 January, 1001. Because the clock only goes up to 23:59, it is something that will never happen again.

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: M.Ted
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 10:52 AM

Well, on the surface, it sounds very important--but when it comes down to it, isn't every minute a distinct, unique, event that will never happen again?

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: MMario
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 10:54 AM

won't it happen twenty four times as the time zone progresses around the planet? And in those areas where the date is written month/day rather then day/month aren't there quite a few other possible times this will occur?

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 11:00 AM

In a hundred and ten years time, won't it be 21:12 21/12 2112?

Skipjack

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 11:17 AM

Uh.......What exactly did a "clock" look like in 1001?

Did anyone give a rat's ass then?

How about now? (:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 11:29 AM

Be sweet, Spawz. Unitl I read this post this morning the ol' bobert had no inkling that this event was going to occur. So, Iz going on record of saying: I GIVE A RAT'S ASS! Not my own ass mind you. But a rat's? Heck, just make it two rat's asses. Ol bobert is the last of the big spenders...

Iz just funnin' with ya Guest and Spawzer so don't duct tape me to nuthin', please... Actually, every thime I hear one of these oddities Iz wonders just who it is that sits around thinking about this stuff...

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 11:45 AM

And it happened at 11:11 11/11 1111!

Skipjack

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 02:44 PM

Hey Skip......Ya' got way too much time on your hands......But uh, what DID that clock look like?

Okay Bobetz, I'll see your two "Rat's Asses" and raise you a "Two Shits".......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: CarolC
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 02:56 PM

I'd say Skipjack K8 has one of the finest minds in the whole world. Great work Skipjack!

"Able was I ere I saw Elba"

--Napoleon Bonaparte

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 03:15 PM

Well I suppose it's all a matter of taste huh Carol? So....

Go Hang A Salami...I'm A Lasagna Hog!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Feb 02 - 04:54 PM

And then there is the Muslim calendar and the Jewish calendar and...

Just as well this doesn't seem to have hit the mass media, or there'd be millenial cultists lining up to top themselves and so forth, with an excuse like this. Still, they'll always find an excuse. The world won't end on Wednesday.

For the end of the world was long ago,
And all we dwell to-day
As children of some second birth,
Like a strange people left on earth
After a judgment day.

For the end of the world was long ago,
When the ends of the world waxed free,
When Rome was sunk in a waste of slaves,
And the sun drowned in the sea.

(From THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE By G.K. Chesterton)

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: Hrothgar
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 02:51 AM

A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 04:52 AM

Absolutely my last word on the matter, other than to totally refute Carol's kind testimony, and agree with Spaw unreservedly, is that had the Septic calendar been in existence, it would have been 12:21 12/21 1221.

However, to contradict myself, and Beetlejuice, it was 10:01 10/01 1001 several days before, as the time slip that was addressed by introduction of the Gregorian Calendar was already over a week at the turn of the first millenium.

There is beauty in numbers. Rats, Spaw, as Tom Sharpe decreed, are the paradigm, baby.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: BS: Time for Tomorrow
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 06:13 PM

Back in 1001 and 1111 they didn't use Arabic numerals or the zero, so it wouldn't have worked. (Well, maybe the Arabs did, but their 11th century didn't come for another 500 years)