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In Reply to: The Overactive Bladder Channel posted by Bambi B on December 16, 2002 at 14:06:48:
BB, ironically, I would refer to History, A&E, Disocvery, and TLC as THE Nazi Channel to my friends. Their combined programming, up until a couple a years ago, would afford you to flip between the four and see Adolph at anytime of the day or night! I was amazed how it used to be. 8^)
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Ah, I remember the excitement of my wife and I when our cable company began to offer the History Channel! We were filled with anticipation for shows about English Knights, French Kings, the Spanish Inquisition, Ancient Mayan Civilization, etc. What did we get? 24 hrs of war footage! Pheh! At least Biography still has interesting features now and again.And of course there's always the Weather Channel. "Honey, come see this Occluded cold front that's causing chances of precipitation over much of the Eastern Seaboard!"
rufus,Some more synchronicity:
I used to have a game in which I would turn on The History Channel but as soon as I saw Hitler or heard his name, I would turn it off. There were several times that I the instant I tried it, there would be Adolph. Mostly it would take about 4-8 minutes as the next round of announcements of future Hitler programmes would be run.
It's not that Hitler is not important and very interesting, but the Thousand Year Reich was only 1933-1945. What about 15,000,000,000 B.C.E to 1933 and 1945 to 2002?
Fortunately, it has improved, but still has an emphasis on miltary history, weapons systems, etc. History was made off battlefields as well.
Cheers,
Merry Christmas and Happy New year to each and every Inmate.
bubbahotep,For a more definable date, I use B.C. and A.D. I do find it odd though we use the English "Before Christ" and the Latin "Anno Domini" for after.
I use "B.C.E." - Before Common Era- when referring to pre history- a very approximate early time- like the origin of the Universe fifteen billion years ago, the mass extintion of the dinosaurs 65 million B.C.E., the migration from Asia to North America 12,000 B.C.E., and etc. "B.C.E." allows scientist-approved sloppiness.
Dates in the West are a conundrum as in the absence of any evidence there is conjecture that Christ was born between what we call 4 B.C. and 6 A.D. -and possibly in March or April rather than December. This makes Millenial hysteria- that happened in both 1000 A.D. and 2000 A.D.- less accurately timed, especially as the 2000th year after Christ was Jan 1 ,2000.
"A.D". was not used until the 6th C. A.D.and was still based on a complex calculation of 750+ years backwards.
As there is no year "0", is the original Christmas December 25, 1 B.C which then turned to 1 A.D. (two years later by date) a week later on January 1? Anyone living during the translation between B.C. and A.D. has to have two years subtracted from the addition of the BC and AD numbers.
Then there was the change from Julian to Georgian calendar that changed everything, because the equinoxes were getting so far off their dates. Ten days were omitted from the calendar, and it was decreed that the day after Thursday October 4, 1582 would become known as Friday October 15, 1582. The rent came up faster in Europe that October!
Whichever it is, have a merry approximately "2002" Christmas and a very happy so-called "2003" yourself!
Cheers,
Bambi B
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