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Apologies, but I've gotta vent. There's a local radio announcer who can't give the time without saying something like:

"It's six twenty-one --- twenty one after six." And he does it again and again, whenever he looks at the clock, always in the same maniacal voice and always using the same template:

"It's H:M --- M after H." Why the waste of bandwidth? Doesn't he have anything to say? This mannerism is driving me batty; batty it's driving me ...

TopicHumor - TopicPersonalHistory - TopicLanguage - Datetag20030418

Just be glad he's not saying "one over five to ten past quarter to half... seven".

Maybe it's an equal opportunities thing. Six-twenty-one for the academic set, and twenty-one-after-six for the masses.

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