Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)

Roger Mills wrote:
>         As I recall, back when ALL watches had hands, they were shown at
> 8:20, apocryphally the time when Linconln was shot.......
Well, from what I understand, they were originally shown sometimes at
8:20 and sometimes at 10:10, both of which allowed the brand name to be
unobscured by the hands and allow watches that had a date function to
show that as well, but they noticed that ads showing the watches at
10:10 tended to do slightly better, because the resemblance to a smile
made the watch look "more friendly".

> >Exstewardesses?>
>         I do believe a hyphen is required.
Hmm, you may be right.  It does look odd without a hyphen.  Oh, well.

But, hey, any word can be all typed with the left hand, it's just faster
to use both hands!  ;-)  (And, of course, this is all assuming you're
using the Qwerty keyboard, with a Dvorak keyboard, everything would be
different)

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