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    How the "Leap Second" Really Works
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    01/06/09

    In reply to How the "Leap Second" Really Works
    It's simply an accounting trick to keep our clocks and calendars in sync with current reality. Now how hard was that?
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    Image of mikecap mikecap
    01/06/09

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    Maybe the world would be better off if we divided up into avout and slines...
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    01/06/09

    @mikecap: Which Math would you belong to?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    01/05/09

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    Fired Miles O'Brien! What will Keiko do?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/06/09

    @OW-Holmes: The hell with Keiko, what about Molly?!?! Won't someone think if the children!
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/05/09

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    Pshhh yeah, Christian time.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/05/09

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    For me, the new year was off by 14 seconds. I wonder if Kathy Griffen was to blame. Unless the atomic clock which my watch calibrates to was off.
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    Image of tehdahl tehdahl
    01/05/09

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    Wow.

    Einstein would be so proud.

    As would Hawking.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    01/05/09

    @tehdahl: As would their elementary school teachers.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/05/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: My unborn niece is golf clapping in the womb.
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    01/05/09

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    Shit, no wonder I woke up in my Irish pajamas on New Year's Day. It's cuz during that out of sync second, I got fuckin tanked on Jack and Cokes. AND I DIDN'T REMEMBER A SINGLE THING!
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