Light turns green, car behind you honks (1948, 1950)

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Attaboy, Attosecond!
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: March 7, 2004
Do you have a minute?'' That's what we used to say when the person we were
accosting was in a rush. That notion of a very short time was reduced, not long
ago, by the split second, which was defined by New York Traffic Commissioner
T.T. Wiley in 1950 as ''the time between the light turning green and the guy
behind you honking.''


   T. T. Wiley didn't coin this in 1950.


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Independent Record - 1/6/1948
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Pg. 4, col. 1:
   It is said that the smallest measurable unit of time is the interval it
takes, after the traffic light turns green, for some damn fool behind you to
honk his horn.