In article <1gv424t6u3seo653hqo9445g4simldt2r8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Bill Kinkaid <davelister@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jeff Lanam <jeff-dot-lanam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > xhoster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >> Estron <estron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> When is "the dead of night"?
> >>
> >>It starts when respectable people are no longer out and about, and
thus
> >>everyone left skulking about is presumed to be up to something. So
around
> >>10 pm or so, but maybe earlier depending on local customs, but later
around
> >>harvest time. Put out the lamp, that whale oil doesn't grow on trees,
you
> >>know.
> >
> >9:30 in Provo, Utah.
>
> Half an hour earlier than in Toledo?
He meant 9:30 AM.
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D.F. Manno | dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words
are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by
destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people
will solemnly vote against their own interests." (Gore Vidal)
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