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excuses to leave work early


70. Hey, hey! The Monkees could be coming to our town.

71. My rheumatism is acting up. There’s going to be a terrible tornado.

72. My arthritis is acting up. There’s going to be a terrible blizzard.

73. The pharaoh is acting up. There’s going to be a terrible rain of frogs.

74. I need to give blood.

75. I need to give evidence.

76. I need to give up.

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77. I’m going to my best friend’s engagement party.

78. I’m going to my best friend’s wedding.

79. I’m going to my best friend’s divorce. (We all knew it wouldn’t last. At the wedding, everybody threw Minute Rice.)

80. I have a seriously overdue library book that I have to return.

81. I have a bunch of old parking tickets, and if I don’t pay them I’m going to be arrested.

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82. The police are at the back door. Cover me.

83. I’m having my nails done.

84. I’m having my colors done.

85. I’m having my head examined.

86. I’m going to the bank.

87. I’m going to sleep.

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88. I’m going over the edge.

89. A friend of mine is dying and I have to go to the hospital.

90. A friend of mine has died and I have to go to the funeral parlor.

91. A friend of mine is being reincarnated and I have to go to the zoo.

92. I need to check out the hole in the ozone layer.

93. I need to check into a rest home.

94. I’m breaking in my shoes.

95. I’m breaking up with my boyfriend.

96. I’m breaking out.

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97. I have to pick up my dry cleaning.

98. I have to pick out a car.

99. Salmon Rushdie is coming in to talk about his idea for a book on
Christian fundamentalists. I thought I’d go to a ball game instead.

Clocks

The management of time by mechanical means comes from the invention of the clock during medieval times in monasteries in European countries. Back then, clocks were used to signal to the people that it was time to come together to pray. The clock would chime and the sound of the ringing bells would signal to people that it was time to pray. The irony, of course, is that clocks were originally made so that people would be helped to perform their daily prayers. But eventually clocks ended up as instruments of capitalism, which is basically the exact opposite of religion. Now we’re lucky if we can find the time to pray in our ever busier and busier life.

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The pendulum clock was invented by Christian Huygens in 1656.
In the Arabic language, the word for clock is the same as the word for “hour”. This is true whether you are talking about a wristwatch or a wall clock, an hour of time, or “o’clock”. They are all the same word.

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Unique Stone Wall Clocks Designed and Manufactured in the United States
We are all familiar with today’s clocks and watches. And most of us remember sundials were used in centuries past. What is not widely known is that the ancient Greeks used water for telling time. These water clocks worked on the basis of falling water turning gears and levers to make the clock move.

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In 1797, a tax was placed on clocks in Great Britain. The tax was five shillings.
Who is the longest continuing clockmaker in the USA? Seth Thomas Clocks is America’s oldest continuous clockmaker, having manufactured clocks in the USA since 1813. Seth Thomas was founded in Thomaston, Connecticut, which at the time of its founding was known as Plymouth Hollow. Plymouth Hollow renamed the town Thomaston in honor of Seth Thomas the individual and the Seth Thomas Clock Company. In the Company’s earlier years Seth Thomas Clocks was a fairly sizable maker of grandfather clocks and grandmother clocks, which as this is written, are no longer part of their product line.

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Concerning weighted cuckoo clocks- NEVER EVER move the hour hand when changing the time. ALWAYS move the minute hand or the clock will need to see a clock doctor. This action upsets the sensitive functions of the time mechanism.
The reason some clocks utilize quartz is because quartz pulsates in 1 second increments thus enabling the second hand to maintain accuracy.

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The reason some clocks utilize quartz is because quartz pulsates in 1 second increments thus enabling the second hand to maintain accuracy.

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The first alarm clock was invented in Concord New Hampshire by Levi Hutchins in 1787. It was never patented as the inventor didn’t care about money, he just didn’t want to oversleep anymore.

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Emily Dickinson wrote a poem titled “The Clock strikes one that just struck two.” The Clock strikes one that just struck two — Some schism in the Sum — A Vagabond for Genesis Has wrecked the Pendulum —

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John Harrison, an English clockmaker, devoted his life to the quest of accurately determining longitude in order to make sea faring safer.

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Founded in 1963, Glock started out as a manufacturer of curtain rods before branching out into the arms industry in the 1970s, manufacturing machine gun belts, practice hand grenades, plastic magazines, field knives, and entrenching tools for the Austrian Army. When, in the early 1980s, the Austrian Army requested a pistol model, Glock responded with the first polymer made handgun, the Glock 17 , a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol. (The 17 was so-named because it was Gaston Glock's seventeenth patent.) The Austrian Army adopted the Glock 17 in 1982 with the Norwegian Army adopting the model two years later. One year later, Glock Inc. was established in the US in Smyrna, Georgia. In the next few years, Glock expanded its 9 mm product line, developing the select-fire Glock 18 in 1986 and the Glock 17L and Glock 19 in 1988. In 1990 Glock became the first manufacturer to offer models chambered for the .40 S&W cartridge, the Glock 22 and the Glock 23, beating Smith & Wesson to the marketplace with pistols for their own cartridge.

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In 1998 the city of New Orleans filed a lawsuit in state court against Glock and other weapons manufacturers claiming the weapons could be made safer for children and requesting reimbursement for the cost of gun violence in the city. This was the first time a government suit was brought against a weapons manufaturer claiming they were responsible for the damages their products caused. The city of Atlanta was quick to file their own lawsuits and many other local and state governments followed. By 2000 over 30 cities and one state (New York) had filed similar lawsuits against gun manufacturers.

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In 2000 the Clinton administration reached an agreement with Smith and Wesson, the largest gun manufacturer in the United States. Glock originally did not agree to the settlement but latter agreed to change some practices.

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In 2006, Glock pistols were found in Sudan. Arms exports to Sudan are in contravention of UN and EU rules. Amnesty International issued an open letter to Austria's Parliament demanding an explanation of how the pistol ended up in Darfur. Glock sued Amnesty, claiming that it was falsely accused of violating the UN arms embargo. It lost its lawsuit and a subsequent appeal.

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Glock sidearms are common handguns among law enforcement agencies and military organizations around the world. The popularity of Glock pistols can be attributed to a number of factors. They are said to be very reliable, being able to function under extreme conditions and to fire a wide range of ammunition types. The simplicity of the Glock design contributes to this reliability, as it contains a relatively small number of components (nearly half as many as the typical handgun) making maintenance and repair easy.

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The polymer frame makes them lighter than typical steel or aluminum-framed handguns, which is attractive for police officers and civilians who carry firearms for extended periods of time. Glock pistols do not have any external controls such as levers, decockers, or manual safeties (stock). This adds to the simplicity of use and removes a potential source of errors when operating the handgun under stress. Most of the steel components in a Glock pistol are treated with a nitriding process called "Tenifer"[9], which increases the surface hardness and makes the weapon resistant to corrosion and wear.

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The popularity of Glock pistols inspired other manufacturers to begin production of similar polymer-framed firearms, including the Springfield XD, Steyr MA1, Smith & Wesson M&P, and Walther P99 pistols. Glocks tend to be in the middle of the price range for quality pistols: generally less expensive than similar SIG-Sauer and HK USP pistol models, but more expensive than Hi-Point or Taurus models.

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Glock pistols do set off metal detectors and can indeed be detected by X-ray machines, due to their metal barrels, slides, magazines, and ammunition. The erroneous claim that they could not was first made in an article by columnist Jack Anderson, entitled, "Quaddafi Buying Austrian Plastic Pistol", published in The Washington Post on January 13, 1985. The claim was then reported by the Associated Press and further reported by many United States television news stations and newspapers. It has since become an urban legend that to this day continues to appear in news reports and movies, and has even been a topic of debate in the United States Congress and during oral argument before the United States Supreme Court in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller.

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In fact, 83.7% (by weight) of the Glock pistol is normal ordnance steel and the "plastic" parts are a dense polymer known as "Polymer 2", which is radio-opaque and is therefore visible to X-ray security equipment. In addition, virtually all of these "plastic" parts contain embedded steel not to make the firearms "detectable", but to increase functionality and shooting accuracy. Contrary to popular movies like Die Hard 2: Die Harder, neither Glock nor any other gun maker has ever produced a "porcelain", "ceramic" or "plastic" firearm which is undetectable by ordinary security screening devices. Even if a pistol completely undetectable by either X-ray machines or metal detectors were to be developed, the ammunition inside would still be detectable.

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In Die Hard 2, the character John McClane portrayed by Bruce Willis specifically referred to a non-existent "Glock 7" with many fictitious characteristics:
That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me! You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it costs more than you make here in a month!

Mike Papac, an armorer at Cinema Weaponry, which supplied the Glock pistols used in Die Hard 2, has stated, "I remember when we did that scene, I tried to talk them out of it. There's no such thing as a gun invisible to metal detectors, and there shouldn't be, but they wouldn't budge. They had it written into the script and that was that."[10]

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The Glock pistol design was not the first to incorporate a plastic frame. Heckler & Koch used polymer for their VP70 pistol frame in 1970.[11] HK's innovation of polymer frames and polygonal rifling seem to have been influential in the Glock design. Still earlier, Remington introduced their polymer-framed Nylon 66 Rifle in 1959. This was so revolutionary at the time that Remington dyed the plastic brown to resemble wood and fitted a cosmetic sheet-metal cover on the receiver to make it appear to be made from steel. Further, the most extensive use of polymers in a pistol was in the Ram-Line Syn Tech Exactor pistol with a barrel made from steel-lined plastic.

When London hosts the Olympic Games in 2012 they will become the first city to officially stage the event for the third time. Athens would also share this honour but for the fact that the 1902 Athens Intercalated Olympic Games are not counted as an official event.! Great Britain only won 3 gold medals at the 1948 London Olympics and finished 12th in the medal tables. In total team GB won 23 medals. Subtract the Gold medals and put the numbers together and you get 2012.

Amazingly, 3 nations won exactly twenty medals and the 6th and 7th won 20 and 12 consecutively. In 1948 the USA came first in the medal tables with 84 medals. Add 48 and 84 and you get 'London' 132. which can be written as London Won 20+12. Numerology strikes again!

There is a very fair argument that the first modern Olympic Games actually took place in the small English village of Much Wenlock in 1866 - some 30 years before the 1896 Athens Games. They were the brainchild of Dr. William Penny Brookes and were visited by Baron Pierre de Coubertin who was so inspired by the event that he went on to found the International Olympic Committee. In 1994 the president of the IOC, Juan Antonio Samaranch, laid a wreath of the grave of Dr. Penny Brooke and acknowledged him as the 'real' founder of the Modern Olympic Games.

One of the London 2012 mascots is called Wenlock in recognition of the Much Wenlock Olympian Games.

One of the two designers of the 2012 Olympic Torch was originally from Shrewsbury a large town near Much Wenlock in Shropshire England.

Britain's first Olympic champion was actually a minor Scottish Aristocrat born in India. Launceston Elliot won the Single Hand Weightlifting Competition at the 1896 Athens Games. He is considered an inspiration for the first colour entertainment' film about the Olympics called Geordie and made in 1955.
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The sporting pictograms that are now an integral part of the Olympic Games were first introduced at the 1948 London Games. There were originally just 20 Olympic Symbols and they were used on the tickets to help people find the events. They were reintroduced at the 1966 games and have

been used ever since.

The 1948 Olympic Games were the first to be held after the death of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

At the 1908 London Games the organisers of the Marathon discovered that the British Royal Box was 385 yards further down route than the 26 mile finishing mark. The route was extended to finish exactly in front of King Edward VII and has been 26miles and 385 yards ever since.

Britain was the first country to stage a Paralympic event which took place on the Opening day of the 1948 London Olympics and were known as the Stoke Mandeville Games. Competitors were disabled war veterans. The name derives from Parallel Olympic.

One of the Mascots being used for the 2012 London Games has been named Mandeville in recognition of the Stoke Mandeville games for the disabled.

The oldest woman to have ever competed in the Olympic Games was equestrian Hilda L. Johnstone who, at the age of 70, took part in the Dressage Event at the 1972 Munich Games.