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Re: "What time is it?"

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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> 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?


Since Time doesn't exist...when did people
start asking "What time is it?"

Yous certaintly know a lot about clocks, but
you don't know what time is...it.








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

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"What time is it?" The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-06-29 00:00 -0700
  Re: "What time is it?" "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2023-06-29 09:29 -0700
  Re: "What time is it?" The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-06-29 09:35 -0700
    Re: "What time is it?" The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-06-29 12:16 -0700
      Re: "What time is it?" The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2023-06-29 13:56 -0700
        Re: "What time is it?" "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2023-06-30 10:54 -0700
  Re: "What time is it?" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2023-06-30 11:11 -0700

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