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Re: "What time is it?"

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Subject	Re: "What time is it?"
Date	Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:56:53 -0700
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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> 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.

I mean, why do you call it spacetime...shouldn't it be
called...spaceclock?


I means, you don't say bodytime, yous say bodyclock.







-- 
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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