Two to one. I graciously defer. . .

Defer defer, whoever was talking about any deferring?

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I'm the one deferring, Julie, to your idea of clarity. Now, I'm
starting to get confused. :o\

I want to know why, When you are working the week goes by so slow. But when on vacation It seems to FLY by?

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I want to know why, When you are working the week goes by so slow. But when on vacation It seems to FLY by?

Especially when you Fly to your destination!

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I want to know why, When you are working the week goes by so slow. But when on vacation It seems to FLY by?

"Time flies when you're having fun"
Vacation = fun...
Work.... not so much.

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The Universe doesnt always give you what you want... But it ALWAYS gives you what you need.

I want to know why, When you are working the week goes by so slow. But when on vacation It seems to FLY by?

I wonder why time seems to go faster when you are getting older...

Don't quote me but:
"You see more where you are, so there is
less time to look elsewhere......"

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Why when you walk in the rain you get more on the inside of the lenses than the outside?

When you walk you produce local air flow around the front of the lens that drives many of the drops to the edge, and then off the lens. The local airflow also speeds evaporation on the front of the lens. The back of the lens doesn't see this airflow, so anything that reaches there stays there for a longer time.

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As a kid, hydro was changed from 50hz to 60hz in Nothern Ontario. They replaced electric clocks with free new ones.

It should be noted that North American TV used the 60hz for vertical sync were the UK used 50hz. It's was a lot easier to design TVs using hydro as the base frequency to sync with.

The 50/60Hz difference is also why American designed video camera's flicker under artificial light over here in Europe. Because they usually record at 30 fps and the electricity is cycling at 50 Hz, the two frequencies go in and out of sync while recording.
When recording at 30 fps under 60 Hz lighting, the two frequencies sync up hence no flicker.
In case anyone wondered why.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Why are days divided in two parts when it comes to clocks?
Ante Meridiem and Post Meridiem AKA AM and PM.

Ante and post are Latin for before and after.
Medius means middle and dies means day, so meridian is the middle of the day, i.e. noon.
Hence AM is before noon and PM is after noon.
Is it a bad thing that i didn't have to look any of that up.

I'm moving into guesswork here:
A clock divided into 24 would not only look more crowded and be harder to read from a distance, but the 60 minutes in an hour wouldn't divide neatly.
60/12=5, so each marking indicates 1 hour or 5 minutes.
60/24=2.5, each marking would indicate 2m30s, untidy.
Given normal hours of daylight, it's usually obvious which half of the day it is, so a twelve segmented clock works fine.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Given normal hours of daylight, it's usually obvious which half of the day it is, so a twelve segmented clock works fine.

Above the Artic circle it's sometimes difficult to tell day from night:)
Its now dark in the North all day. In the summer the opposite.

I thought that I knew the most usual differences between USA and UK spelling i.e. missing out a "u" as in color, and a z for an s as in recognize, but I came across another one today I hadn't noticed before which got me wondering.

The USA spelling is warehouse, presumably a house where you store your wares. It's a sort of reverse logic like sidewalk, which is where you walk on the side of a street. The UK spelling is Wharehouse, apparently historically from the docks where ships cargoes were unloaded alongside wharfs into storage. Over time the f got replaced by an e.

I thought I knew the differences too, but I've never heard of the 'wharehouse' variant: and neither has my "Shorter" Oxford English Dictionary ('shorter' being the edition in two volumes and well over 2,500 pages...)



It took several attempts with a search engine, convincing it that no, I didn't mean the 'a' to be an 'o', before it found what seems to be the only British example - Whaley Bridge Wharf & Transhipment Wharehouse.

A propos, I've always liked the Indian word for the same facility: a 'Godown'. It sounds like it should be a descriptive English word for how you get there, but apparently it comes from the Portuguese via Malay, Tamil or Telugu.

What did the pirate say, when he reached 80?

Ans.: Aye Matey

Did you hear about the dyslexic pimp?
He bought a wharehouse!

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.