Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 8, 2000, 12:30 |
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At 11:23 04.8.2000 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
> >> In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch
> >> is 10:10.
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> >Because on a watch with hands, 10:10 look vaguely smile-like, and when
> >they began selling digital watches, they simply kept the tradition.>
> As I recall, back when ALL watches had hands, they were shown at
>8:20, apocryphally the time when Linconln was shot.......
In Sweden it is always 11:55, since "fem i tolv" means "almost too late"!
/BP 8^)>
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