What will you do with the extra second at midnight tonight ?

[dipsydoodle]

THE GREENWICH PRIME MERIDIAN, ENGLAND — Just a second, 2009.

It's going to take a little longer to say goodbye to the worst economic year since the Great Depression, but all for good cause.

The custodians of time will ring in the New Year by tacking a "leap second" onto the clock today to account for the minute slowing of the Earth's rotation. The leap second has been used sporadically at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich since 1972, an adjustment that has kept Greenwich Mean Time the internationally agreed time standard.

Some scientists now say GMT should be replaced by International Atomic Time — computed outside Paris — because new technologies have allowed atomic time to tick away with down-to-the-nanosecond accuracy.

But David Rooney, the Royal Observatory's curator of time, defended leap seconds. The arrangement, he said, allows for satellites and physicists and high-frequency traders to benefit from atomic time accuracy while keeping our clocks consistent with the position of the sun in the sky — and with GMT.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6187948.html

So - What will you do with the extra second at midnight tonight ? Fart, burp . blink , whatever. Any ideas ?

[ixion]

1. I've always wanted to learn to play piano...

maybe I'll use my extra second for that. :+

[dipsydoodle]

2. That's classic

hadn't thought of that. :rofl:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. my wife has an idea of something i could get done in a second...

and new year's is the ONE time a year she might consider it ! :-)

sP

[Uben]

4. I'm just gonna wait............

...that way, when someone says wait a second, I can say, I already have, thanks!

[Lint Head]

5. I think I'll play the bagpipes for the first time.

:dem:

[BlueJazz]

6. Oh Great...Just Great...Now I have to set all the Clocks in the house and Cars again.. Shit!!!

[MiniMe]

7. Curse that BushCo has even an extra second to be in office

[mwb970]

10. That's what I was thinking!

That's one more second that this awful administration remains to stain our nation. Let's inaugurate Barry one second early to make up for it!

[bdamomma]

14. exactly, damn that stupid man.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

16. To make it even worse,

2008 was a Leap Year. The little prick had an extra day to screw things up even more.

[MiniMe]

18. Aaauuuggghhh.

I did forget. Makes it even worse.

[Soylent Brice]

8. i'd like to say i'd spend my time wisely and doing something constructive,

but i'll prbably end up wasting it screaming one second longer for someone to bring me toilet paper, or something like that.

[santamargarita]

9. Wishing we didn't have an extra second of Bush!

A millisecond of that shitbag is way too much!

[Inspired]

11. Kiss a little longer. n/t

[conscious evolution]

12. Get laid

Still haven't figured out what to do in the other half of that extra second.

[KansDem]

20. "Still haven't figured out what to do in the other half of that extra second."

Smoke a cigarette?

[Condem]

13. One more second of sleep.

[rpannier]

15. One extra shot of JD is a possibility

[derby378]

17. Listen to ANTI-PROCRASTINATION SONG by SOD

I think the musical part clocks in at just over a second. So that'll be cool.

[helderheid]

19. Learn a new language.

[KansDem]

21. HA!!! You all kill me! I'm going to get started with 2009 during the last second of 2008!

And I'll be living life one second ahead of all of you all through 2009!

I'm an over-achiever! :D

edited to add: That person you see way out ahead of you will be ME!!!

[LiberalEsto]

22. Write my bestseller

and maybe do a load of laundry

[Kalyke]

23. How cool would it be to have the title of "Curator of Time?"

Can you imagine him at parties?

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Rooney. What is it that you do?"

"I'm the CURATOR OF TIME... bwahahahaha!"

:rofl:

[bikebloke]

24. Travel

See the world again. Might as well, since I'll be off from work.

[pipi_k]

25. What will I do with the extra second? Oh, just the usual....

I can wash out forty-four pairs of socks
And have them hangin out on the line
I can starch and iron two dozen shirts
Before you can count from one to nine
I can scoop up a great big dipper
Full of lard from the drippin's can
Throw it in the skillet, go out and do my
Shopping and be back before it melts in the pan
'Cause I'm a woman
Double U O M A N
I'll say it again



:)


Thank you, Peggy Lee...

[dipsydoodle]

27. Just for you

http://www.last.fm/music/Peggy+Lee/_/I%27m+A+Woman+(Digitally+Remastered+04)

Happy New Year.

[pipi_k]

29. Thank you!

Happy New Year to you too

:)

[mnhtnbb]

26. Call up Time Warner and tell them to pi$$ off!

[Dulcinea]

28. Drink & giggle. eom

[roamer65]

30. Pull my finger one second before midnite and find out.

:silly: