Heh. My dad and I have actually looked at a similar piece of furniture. I'm not sure when, if ever, we'll get around to it, though...

Why is midnight midnight, when it's the divide between today and yesterday?

From here.

Also, why do people say 12 a.m. or 12 pm? If it is exactly at 12 it's either midnight or noon. Someone says 12 a.m. and I have no idea what time they're talking about.

Quit yer nitpickin.

You know full well that people mean "Midnight" if they say 12 AM.

Yes, we both know they are wrong, but it's in common use.

Seriously...I didn't know that! Hopefully it's self-explantory, like "I'll meet you at the library at 12 pm" I know the library isn't open at midnight!

I think it's part of my OCD. I never understood "lefty-loosy, right-tighty" either. It depends on what part of the bolt or whatever you're looking at as to whether it's going right or left.

But, I'm weird.

Well, you know that 12:01 a.m. is in the middle of the night. People just make the leap that 12:00 a.m. would also be in the middle of the night. They are technically wrong, because there is no such thing as 12:00 am, but I think it's in pretty common usage.

Maybe, but you are accurate on both the clock thing and the bolts thing.

Ahh yes. I see their "logic." But my brain does not accept it!

If you are going to tighten or loosen a bolt or screw, you do that from the head end. Looking from the head end the lefty/righty thing works, unless it's a rare left hand thread.

Of course a nut doesn't have a head end, but looking from the nut end of the assembly still works.

There's the rub. I usually hold the bolt still and turn the car (or hold the faucet handle and turn the house). That's how we've always done it in my family and I'm not about to change now.

Whenever I see Steve Buscemi I think he looks like Steve Buscemi in a Steve Buscemi mask.

A good reason to stay with military time.
2400 is the final point in the clock. Every second after that is the new day.

Middle of the night would have more to do with light than with time. But of course none of think of that either, middle of the night could be any time where you should be sleeping rather than doing the wild thing, partying, or studying, or whatever.

Is there really a 24.00? I'd have assumed it went 23.59, 00.00, 01.00.
I would always say noon, midday or midnight anyway.

Here's something you probably didn't know when you woke up this morning.

The rules determining the order in which the Olympic teams from each of the participating countries are not based on they alphabetic order. They are instead based on the number of strokes required to represent first word of the name of the country name in Chinese. Additionally, Greece will enter first and the host country, China, will enter last.

From here.

'cause thats how they do alphabetizing in chinese-speaking countries. Obviously without an alphabet, you gotta find... other means of organization.

If there were no laws, there would be no crime.
- HLJ