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| From | nobody@example.org (Scott) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! |
| Date | 2020-03-12 14:53 +0000 |
| Organization | XMission http://xmission.com/ |
| Message-ID | <5e6a4be6.1568204921@core> (permalink) |
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:22:04 -0700 (PDT), robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote: >On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 5:38:58 AM UTC+11, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2020-03-10, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <s.....@eircom.net> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:30:00 -0400 >> > Andreas Kohlbach <a.....@spamfence.net> wrote: >> > >> >> Another example I like is the Welsh singer "Shakin' Stevens", who in the >> >> 1980s made songs paying homage to songs of the 1960s Rock'n Roll. Because >> >> the 1960s were vintage in the 1980s, as the 1980s are now. >> > >> > It's 2020 the 80s are almost twice as far back as the 60s were when >> > they were now. >> >> See? Time _is_ going faster. > >Life is like a toilet roll. The closer you get to the end, >the faster it seems to go. Not my theory but I like it: every year of life feels shorter than last year because, relatively, it is - when I was a little kid, a year was 20% of my lifetime; today, a year is only 2% of my life.
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Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-08 15:51 -0700
Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! John Floren <jfloren@eternal-september.org> - 2020-03-09 12:56 -0600
Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-03-10 09:30 -0400
Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2020-03-10 08:46 -0500
Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-03-10 15:32 +0000
Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-03-10 18:38 +0000
Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-03-11 08:01 -0400
Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-03-11 16:09 +0000
Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! robin.vowels@gmail.com - 2020-03-11 18:22 -0700
Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?! nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2020-03-12 14:53 +0000
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