h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here in the U.S. where we go DD/MM/YY...

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

That won't ever happen again.

You may now return to your previously scheduled life.

DURRRR.... I mean here where we go MM/DD/YY.

we always seem to get things after the Americans these days. I suppose we'll have to wait nearly a month for the same thing to happen here.

Yep...

Actually, it will happen again. But not in our lifetime (unless a very precocious baby is reading this). The next time will be in 2106, then 2206, 2306...

Of the arrangements for arranging dates on a computer, MM/DD/YY is the least logical and most amenable to error.

Good job it's the one the US military use, eh?

RF

Useless question: is the MM/DD/YYYY mode really a military con-/invention?

Y.

Technically, is it possible to read shakespeare underwater?

dont see why not

Ah, but YOU can read music underwater, it's a little trickier for us mere mortals

if a man leans over a chair,resting his head and body wieght against a wall,and then lifts the chair,he cannot stand up,but awoman can do it with ease.

Yeah, but they're just weird aren't they?

its somthing to do with balance and phisiology

Is that another example of multitasking, then?
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A9741972

That's not useless - that's useful.

The U.S. Military uses the more common DD/MM/YYYY format. U.S. civilians use MM/DD/YYYY.


Following the horrid events of September 11th was the Anthrax Letter scare. Immediately foreign terrorists were suspected. Yet, the date on the letters was written in the MM/DD/YY format ("09-11-01"). No arrests have yet been made.

"Technically, is it possible to read shakespeare underwater?"

I heard an interesting fact. If you learn something underwater then you will, at a future time, be better at recalling the information underwater than you will be on dry land.

(Interesting but useless, no?)

Alright, I don't have much time here, but I need to know if other organisms besids humans have blood types! It is of vital importants that I know this!
PWT

can't tell you.

It's obviously a useful fact.

sorry