From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   henry999@eircom.net (Henry) writes:   
      
   > Yes, but...even in military or continental or railroad time, whatever   
   > you want to call it, the clocks don't _strike_ 13. I have always seen   
   > that as a deliberate distortion of accustomed 'normality',   
      
   Yes, certainly, but I still don't see why you would expect it to be   
   mentioned in an essay on Newspeak.   
      
     A public clock in a university town began striking thirteen every   
     midnight.  Workmen dismantled it several times looking for the   
     trouble, but without success.  It finally developed that an   
     undergraduate with a room opposite had provided the thirteenth   
     stroke with the aid of an air rifle.   
     -- E. Bright Wilson, Jr., _An Introduction to Scientific Research_   
      
   > just as with that rock-n-roll guy (was it in 'Spinal Tap'?) whose   
   > volume control went up to 11.   
      
   I don't want to hear about it.   
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   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
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