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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Velcro Closings (and digitial watches)
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Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 17:48:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 26 17:48:24 1984
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> > <>
> > Velcro closings will do the same thing to shoe tieing skills that
> > digital watches did to time-telling.
> 
> I don't know anyone that can't tell time on a regular clock (not
> counting 1-year-olds), do you?  And if all clocks were digital (some time
> in the future), why would anyone need to tell time?

I know a 9-year-old who can't tell time *precisely* because of
digital timepieces;  if there is not one around, he'll look
until he finds one.  This is kind of sad, I think...

-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

"The other kids tease be.  They call be dubby.  I'd dot a dubby, ab I?"