Happy New Year

[RichardB]

Happy New Year !

Best Wishes to you and yours.

Thanks to all for your interest and input in 2008.

Here's hoping for some great postings here this year.

[RichardB]

Fireworks and Champers (tastes like Cat's-pee) !!!

[SteveHB]

* HAPPY NEW YEAR *

To all Sheffield History Members

[dunsbyowl1867]

* HAPPY NEW YEAR *

To all Sheffield History Members

and I second (or third) that- best wishes to all!

[Guest carlie167]

A bit late but Happy New Year to everyone, hope we all have a good one. lol

[syrup]

Mines even later but its the thought that counts.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

[DaveH]

A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, and all the best for TWENTY - OH - NINE

Why TWENTY - OH - NINE?

A brief explanation from my ramblings in another society newsletter follows,

There was a lot of fuss about the year 2000. People called it the year “two thousand”.

A hundred years earlier no one had ever called the year 1900 “one thousand nine hundred”, it was invariably “nineteen hundred”, meaning the hundredth year of the nineteenth century.

We flippantly refer to the current year as “two thousand and nine” but a hundred years ago it was always “nineteen –oh-nine”.

There are signs that this particular bug will soon be fixed as last years Olympics in Beijing were the “two thousand and eight” but the following London Olympics are already being referred to more correctly as “twenty twelve” rather than two thousand and twelve.

What’s the difference?

Well “two thousand and nine” is merely a number, bigger than 2007 but less than 2009 while “twenty-oh-eight” has the very essence of time about it, it could for example mean, nearly 10 past eight in the evening or it could mean the current year, both of which bear the mark of time.

Now if you want to be really correct, are very Christian and still want to use a number rather than a “time” you could call it 2009 AD. Without resorting to the abbreviation or the Latin “anno dominos” from which this comes you would be forced to say “In the year of our Lord two thousand and nine anno dominos”.

At which point “twenty-oh-nine” suddenly becomes highly preferable.

[RichardB]

Happy New Year !

Best Wishes to you and yours.

Thanks to all for your interest and input in 2008.

Here's hoping for some great postings here this year.

A Clock somewhere is a bit off, this was posted after the last stroke of Big Ben - the BBC clock also stated Twelve O'Clock and three seconds, not that I was waiting or anything lol

[DaveH]

A Clock somewhere is a bit off, this was posted after the last stroke of Big Ben - the BBC clock also stated Twelve O'Clock and three seconds, not that I was waiting or anything

Don't forget that extra "leap second" which was added to bring the accurate clocks back into line with the Earths less than accurate orbital spin.

[Stuart0742]

Don't forget that extra "leap second" which was added to bring the accurate clocks back into line with the Earths less than accurate orbital spin.

No matter how accurate our clocks are, the time on any postings will only be as accurate as "Server" time and how it was set up, probably based on a local church clock somewhere in Turkey (given our server location is in Turkey)

[SteveHB]

No matter how accurate our clocks are, the time on any postings will only be as accurate as "Server" time and how it was set up, probably based on a local church clock somewhere in Turkey (given our server location is in Turkey)

Turkey clock

[Stuart0742]

Turkey clock

Classy clock Steve, "Bootiful" lol

[DaveH]

Classy clock Steve, "Bootiful"

Turkey is in a time zone about 3 hours ahead of us so why didn't the server clock let New Year in at 9pm yesterday evening?

"Bootiful" is the Norfolk turkey farmer Bernard Matthews second advertising catch phrase.

His first one was "Norfolk and Good" but somehow that didn't catch on and he didn't sell many turkeys. Can't imagine why?

{Sorry lads but as old Norfolk school students the misuse of the word "Norfolk" just comes naturally}