CP Time

[Wilson Gray]

On Nov 5, 2004, at 3:53 PM, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

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> Once when I taught in New York I told a colleague who I was driving
> to a conference that I wouls pick him up around 7:10 or 7:15. He
> asked "Which?" Reckon I was usin some kinda time he wasn't used to.
> Coulda been HP time.
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> dInIs

You obviously mint inny time 'tween sebm 'n' sebm-thetty, dInIs, seem
like t'me, though that is rather early. As Richard Pryor has pointed
out, don't nothin be hapnin 'fo' lebm-thetty.

-Wilson

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>> Our department chair, who is Mormon, instructed us recently on how we
>> might
>> better parcel out the hours of the day to reflect the 40-40-20
>> evaluation
>> of teaching, research, and service!
>>
>> At 02:25 PM 11/5/2004, you wrote:
>>> Alice and Jesse speak of "Jewish time". It seems to me that I've
>>> always
>>> heard this expression from my relatives. (We are Jewish.)
>>>
>>> Jesse notes:
>>>>>>>>
>>>  I hear new variants of this constantly--"[some ethnic, racial,
>>> religious etc. group] time" = 'late'.
>>>  <<<<<
>>>
>>> It seems to me that there's a significant difference in whether or
>>> not such
>>> terms are used by the group referenced in them.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, "Mormon standard time", which Fritz cites, or
>>> "Mormon
>>> time" as I have heard it, I was told referred to extreme
>>> punctuality: that a
>>> Mormon would say "I'll be there at 5:06" and appear at your door at
>>> 5:06.
>>>
>>> -- Mark A. Mandel
>>> [I talk, Dragon NaturallySpeaking types, I correct. Neither of us is
>>> perfect.]
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