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Article #865Calendar argument revival (was At Last! The voice of Reason!)
From: and... Andrew Klossner
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 21:35
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 21:35
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[This is more static about how the decade ends in 1990 not 1989. I'm
as tired of this as you are, but my defective personality won't let me
leave it alone without putting in another last word. Type 'n' now.]
"Is a $20 bill worth only $19 because there is no $0 bill?"
No, it isn't. But this Boston Globe letter writer betrays a lack of
reason in suggesting that there is an analogy between dollars and
years. Dollars do not begin and end.
A better analogy: if you're in a 20 lap foot race, do you celebrate the
beginning of the 20th lap, or the end of the 20th lap?
(Personally, I celebrate both, but after 19 laps my brain is so
oxygen-starved that I'll take any excuse to party ...)
-=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew) [UUCP]
(andrew%frip...@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]
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