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From: The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: "What time is it?"
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:35:37 -0700
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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> I don't know when things went wrong...
> 
> but some where along the line
> 
> you people got it all wrong.
> 
> And it's been wrong ever since.
> 
> But when a person ask the question..
> 
> "What time is it?"
> 
> They are not asking
> what time is it...
> 
> they are asking
> 
> for you
> to look
> at your clock
> and read to them
> what the clock reads.
> 
> They are really asking...
> 
> "What clock is it?" or
> 
> "What o'clock is it?"
> 
> If you want to know
> what time it is...
> (even though you're really
> asking What o'clock is it)
> 
> you look at a clock.
> 
> You don't find out
> what time it is...
> you find out
> what o'clock it is.
> 
> "What clock is it?"
> 
> It's 12 o'clock.
> 
> If you ask "What time is it?"
> 
> you going to get the same answer..
> 
> It's 12 o'clock.
> 
> "What o'clock is it?"


                     MR. LEUCHTAG
         Liebchen, uh, sweetness heart,
         what watch?
She glances at her wristwatch.
                     MRS. LEUCHTAG
         Ten watch.
                     MR. LEUCHTAG
              (surprised)
         Such much?








-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge
 the unchallengeable.