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Egg times and Hour Glasses
the_jon_m - bluesman of the parish Started conversation Aug 1, 2004
I've just found a rare scroll in my library, apparntly it answers the age old question, what comes first the egg or the hour, apparntly the egg was first so I went back in time to find out more about it and while I was there, acciently invented the egg timer.
While I was there somebody with a strange varity of slow boiling water expanded on my idea to make an egg-timer for himself, that conidently took one hour to boil, thereby inventing the hourglass.
So seems that hour glasses are egg timers and I repectfully request that poepl stop breaking the damm things, the sand gets in my shoes
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