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something nancyk said reminds me of Robin Williams from Good Morning Vietnam - something along the lines of saying it's o-6-30 - "What's the o stand for? o my god it's early...'
I like noon thirty, but probably wouldn't use it seriously; I'm not that avant-garde!
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o-6-30
Military time is given with four digits, leading zeroes not suppressed. Thus 0630, read zero six thirty or oh six thirty.
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I've been using that nuance of usage for lugubrious (i.e. heavy-handed) all my life...dunno where I picked it up. So, now, that you've lugged me out into embarrassment in front of the board, you can put a Sammy Sosa cork into your descriptivist pretensions.  perhaps it derives from the context: exaggerated mournfulness = heavy = heavy-handed
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Military time is given with four digits, leading zeroes not suppressed. Thus 0630, read zero six thirty or oh six thirty. I know that's what military is supposed to look like/be read as, I was just transcribing exactly what Robin Williams says - because he then says 'o my god...' - and I thought that might make it clearer for anyone who may not understand it 
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For lugubrious I get the mental picture of a bloodhound's face. Which fits well with both mournful and with drawn-out and weighted down.
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Which fits well with both mournful and with drawn-out and weighted down.Thanks, Zed...I needed that.
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My brother-in-law, Irishman that he is, insists that it must be beer-thirty when he's ready for a frosty beverage.
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beer-thirty
Not much of an Irishman if he associates beer with frosty.
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That's myackshully© musicks wording, not his. He really doesn't care if they are warm or cold.
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