On Apr 7, 1:50=A0pm, The Speaking Clock <harlequin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 7 Apr, 22:24, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 7, 1:10=A0pm, The Speaking Clock <harlequin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On 7 Apr, 21:51, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Apr 7, 12:41=A0pm, The Speaking Clock <harlequin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > On 7 Apr, 18:19, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > > > Have you seen the movie called: =A0"The Bridge at River Kwai"?
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> > > > > My grandfather was one of the few who survived actually being
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> > > > > > Commander Shears (played by William Holden) said: =A0"You
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h talked
> > > > > > about how to die well. =A0You should talk about how to live
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> > > > > You may take it that both he and his family took that line to
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> > > > > > We are all pawns in a game of chess.
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> > > > > No-one lives well if they are trapped within an insane game.
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> > > > > really look at the game, you only see the player. =A0Yourself.
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> > > > Speaking clock, you are full of wisdom. =A0Maybe we are showing
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> > > > age!!
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> > > Please don't flatter me. =A0It isn't British you know...;) =A0lol
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> > > If we ignore ideals spoken from the youth as we once spoke, and then
> > > see them reframed in new idea's and still ignore them, then we only
> > > show our folly.
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> > > The other day an elderly man asked me if I was still a student - and
> > > although I am 37 I would still have to reply 'yes'. =A0 lololol
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> > Ohh!! my!! You shouldn't call yourself "the speaking clock". =A0You
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> > only half my age. =A0I should be "the speaking clock".- Hide quoted
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> It's a thankless task if you read what the UK gov did with our
> speaking clock in the cold war:-
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking_clock
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> So I'm here, accepting what may be will be, and yet warning what will
> come will come. =A0Perhaps I am getting old afer all, and I should just
> chuck the torch. =A0lol
Back in the 1960s, I used to work with a audio generating device the
telephone companies used to say:
"At the sound of the tone, the time is twelve - 35 and 15 seconds.
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