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<TITLE>Time and the Arts</TITLE>
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<H1>Time and the Arts</H1>
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@(#)tz-art.htm 7.38
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Please send corrections to this web page to the
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<A HREF="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone mailing list</A>.
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See also <A HREF="tz-link.htm">Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</A>.
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<PRE>
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"Is that a pertinent fact, or are you trying to dazzle me with your command
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of time zones?"
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"Frasier Crane"
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Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI:
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Artist: Karrin Allyson
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CD: I Didn't Know About You
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Copyright Date: 1993
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Label: Concord Jazz, Inc.
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ID: CCD-4543
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Track Time: 3:44
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Personnel: Karrin Allyson, vocal
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Russ Long, piano
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Gerald Spaits, bass
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Todd Strait, drums
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Notes: CD notes "additional lyric by Karrin Allyson;
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arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson"
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ADO Rating: 1 star
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<A HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A175928">AMG Rating: 4 stars</A>
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Penguin Rating: 3.5 stars
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Artist: Kevin Mahogany
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CD: Double Rainbow
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Copyright Date: 1993
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Label: Enja Records
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ID: ENJ-7097 2
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Track Time: 6:27
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Personnel: Kevin Mahogany, vocal
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Kenny Barron, piano
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Ray Drummond, bss
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Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone
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Lewis Nash, drums
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ADO Rating: 1.5 stars
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<A HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A262654">AMG Rating: 3 stars</A>
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Penguin Rating: 3 stars
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Artist: Joe Williams
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CD: Here's to Life
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Copyright Date: 1994
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Label: Telarc International Corporation
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ID: CD-83357
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Track Time: 3:58
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Personnel: Joe Williams, vocal
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The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra
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Notes: This CD is also available as part of a 3-CD package from
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Telarc, "Triple Play" (CD-83461)
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ADO Rating: black dot
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<A HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A194434">AMG Rating: 2 stars</A>
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Penguin Rating: 3 stars
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Artist: Charles Fambrough
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CD: Keeper of the Spirit
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Copyright Date: 1995
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Label: AudioQuest Music
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ID: AQ-CD1033
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Track Time: 7:07
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Personnel: Charles Fambrough, bass
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Joel Levine, tenor recorder
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Edward Simon, piano
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Lenny White, drums
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Marion Simon, percussion
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Notes: On-line information and samples available at
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<A HREF="http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html">http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html</A>
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ADO Rating: 2 stars
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<A HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A224430">AMG Rating: unrated</A>
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Penguin Rating: 3 stars
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Also of note:
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Artist: Holly Cole Trio
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CD: Blame It On My Youth
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Copyright Date: 1992
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Label: Manhattan
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ID: CDP 7 97349 2
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Total Time: 37:45
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Personnel: Holly Cole, voice
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Aaron Davis, piano
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David Piltch, string bass
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Notes: Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in
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Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue"
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ADO Rating: 2.5 stars
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<A HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A157959">AMG Rating: 3 stars</A>
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Penguin Rating: unrated
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Artist: Milt Hinton
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CD: Old Man Time
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Copyright Date: 1990
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Label: Chiaroscuro
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ID: CR(D) 310
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Total Time: 149:38 (two CDs)
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Personnel: Milt Hinton, bass
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Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet
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Al Grey, trombone
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Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate,
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clarinet and saxophone
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John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith,
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Ralph Sutton, piano
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Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar
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Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams,
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drums
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Lionel Hampton, vibraphone
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Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal
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Buck Clayton, arrangements
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Notes: tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time,
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Sometimes I'm Happy,
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A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,
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Four or Five Times, Now's the Time,
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Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us,
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and Good Time Charlie
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On-line samples available at
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<A HREF="http://www.globalmusic.com/labels/chiaroscuro/chiaro_cd_gallery.html">http://www.globalmusic.com/labels/chiaroscuro/chiaro_cd_gallery.html</A>
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ADO Rating: 3 stars
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<A HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A162344">AMG Rating: 4.5 stars</A>
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Penguin Rating: 3 stars
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Artist: Paul Broadbent
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CD: Pacific Standard Time
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Copyright Date: 1995
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Label: Concord Jazz, Inc.
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ID: CCD-4664
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Total Time: 62:42
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Personnel: Paul Broadbent, piano
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Putter Smith, Bass
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Frank Gibson, Jr., drums
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Notes: The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans
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ADO Rating: 1 star
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<A HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A223722">AMG Rating: 4 stars</A>
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Penguin Rating: 3.5 stars
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Artist: Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum
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CD: Silence/Time Zones
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Copyright Date: 1996
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Label: Black Lion
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ID: BLCD 760221
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Total Time: 72:58
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Personnel: Anthony Braxton, sporanino and alto saxophones,
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contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments
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Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments
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Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments
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Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer
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ADO Rating: black dot
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<A HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A310757">AMG Rating: unrated</A>
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Artist: Jules Verne
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Book: Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours
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(Around the World in Eighty Days)
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Notes: Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot.
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European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in
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deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once
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reading a paper.
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An on-line French-language version of the book
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"with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition"
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is available at
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<A HREF="http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j</A>
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An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at
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<A HREF="http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty</A>
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Film: Bell Science - About Time
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Notes: The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza
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Information on ordering is available at
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<A HREF="http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml">http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml</A>
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An episode of "The Adventures of Superman" entitled "The Mysterious
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Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers
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of WWV to broadcast time signals five minutes ahead of actual time;
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doing so got a crook trying to beat the statute of limitations to
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emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure.
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The 1960s ITC television series "The Prisoner" included an episode
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entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to
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the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big
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Ben" chiming on Polish local time.
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The series "Seinfeld" included an episode entitled "The Susie," first
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broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time
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isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour.
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The syndicated comic strip "Dilbert" featured an all-too-rare example of
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time zone humor on 1998-03-14.
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Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103
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of the November, 1999 Atlantic Monthly.
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"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on
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the 1999-11-13 United States airing of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
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"Good news."
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"What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?"
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Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a
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May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series "Baywatch"
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"A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you
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cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing
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they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief--like so many myths, such as that
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there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time'--is false."
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Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02
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"I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day
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when you turn the clocks ahead."
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Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10
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