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This was in a list a friend sent me, and I thought we might have a bit of fun adding definitions:
"How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on."
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How long a minute is depends on how good the book you're reading is.
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How long a minute is depends upon whether you're the little old lady on the crossing or the driver at the red light.
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How long a minute is depends upon whether ... you believe time exists or not. Some new physics people, whatchawawn.
Mr Einstein proposed a comparison that depended upon whether you were wooing a beautiful girl or at the dentist I believe.
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Hey, all you Board members who are lawyers ...active or inactive.
Isn't there a well known law case where the jury was swayed -- concerning a three-minute period that was in question as to guilt or innocence of the defendant -- when the prosecutor demonstrated to the jury just how long three minutes is by having the jury sit and wait while three minutes went by on the clock?
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I come up with 11,178,000 miles.
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Dear Faldage: I looked up speed of light in encyclopedia, and got figure "about 186,000 miles/sec" . Multiplying that by 60 (sec/min) gave me 11,160,000. Where did the discrepancy come from?(What value did you have for speed of light?)
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I started school in 1972, around the time NZ made the switch to metrics, and c was still given in imperial values, as 186,282 miles per second. Multiplying that by 60 gives 11,176,920, if that helps. The imperial value has a nice rhythm to it that is lacking in the prosaic metric approximation of 300,000 kilometres per second (closer to 299,727, akchully)
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Does this make an ayleur (I ain't laughing)
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And then there was the poor rooster-- purchaced by a new age radical, who went back to nature and had a farm.
He/she called up the Cooperative Extentions (a US gov agricultular service) and asked-- "how long should i leave my rooster with the chickens to insure good laying habits of the hens?"-- the clerk at the extention office needed to check, so he said "Just a minute"-- and the new age farmer said "thank you" and hung up!
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