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From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
Subject: Re: language wars (results 13 September) last posting
Date: 1996/10/03
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galina.kasminskaya@ksu.ru writes:

> It's like saying Pearl Harbour was bombed on 1941.12.07, but the
> Japanese bombed it on 1941.12.08.

Ah, memories!  I was a member of my college living group's Campus Quiz
Bowl team, and one of the questions that year was "When did the Japanese
bomb Pearl Harbor?".  One of my teammates (and also roommate) was the
first to hit the buzzer, so he got to try the answer:  "Well, one date
was December 7, 1941."  The moderator confirmed "That's correct", but
looking puzzled by the answer, continued by asking "Do you have another
date?", to which my teammate casually replied "Well, in Japan, it was
December 8!"  The audience erupted in laughter.

Oh, by the way, we won the competition that year, by a landslide.