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Pat Myers's avatar

We'll know whom to turn to in November for some Exit polling.

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Just Lil Ole Me's avatar

You’ve broken my brain. I think I say both EGG zit and EK sit, but now I can’t tell which is right or which I use more. I will never use that word again without thinking about which way to say it. Thanks a lot!

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Gene Weingarten's avatar

Pat Myers, who came up with the idea for that question, finds herself reacting the same way.

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Anne Paris's avatar

Same for me. Now I’m going to be in a burning building and when someone asks for help I’ll be standing there thinking “head for for nearest EGG-sit, no wait…”

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Muriel Nicol Amsden's avatar

Me too!!

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Sam Mertens's avatar

From now on it’s “egress” or nothing.

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

In fact, you may find it more profitable as did P.T. Barnum. He put up signs in his museum reading "This Way to the Egress." Instead of finding what sounded like a new attraction, museum-goers found themselves outside and forced to pay another admission fee.

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Sam Mertens's avatar

I remember Jack Palance telling this story on Ripley’s Believe It or Not.

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Nelsonsdad's avatar

Console yourself with the fact that they are so close, it doesn't matter any more. It's a little like whether or not you pronounce a "T" or a tiny "t" in often. It most often doesn't matter.

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Robin Dryfoos Diallo's avatar

Same for me….i can’t tell. We’re doomed.

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Linda Spiegler's avatar

linda.spiegler@frosch.com Gene, please do an entire piece on Eckers : not only can Ed Compton fix ANY watch or clock, and he made me one from scratch for our 55th (11 o'clock), but he'll type your name in Braille, and introduces you to his resident parrot. Also makes house calls if it's your grandfather clock that needs help. An amazing, very dear one-of-a-kind person who brightens any day--even these days NOW !

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Bill Landau's avatar

He fixes my great-uncle's bar mitzvah watch (probably cost $5 in 1904) whenever it decides it is too tired to go on. I hope Ed Compton never gets too tired to go on.

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Karl Stoltz's avatar

Can you order me a watch that says TWO WEEKS on its face? If not, I'll order my own in about a fortnight.

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Henry Cohen's avatar

That watch is never wrong.

And you don't have to change it twice a year for daylight savings time.

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Gene Weingarten's avatar

Both are very good points.

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Raymo's avatar

Except it's Daylight Saving Time. -Pedantic Man

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WolfBite🐺's avatar

Jimmy Buffett lyrics to Breath In, Breathe Out, Move On

I bought a cheap watch from a crazy man

Floating down canal

It doesn't use numbers or moving hands

It always just says "now"

[Verse 2]

Now you may be thinking that I was had

But this watch is never wrong

And If I have trouble the warranty said

"Breathe in, breathe out, move on"

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Kitchen Cynic's avatar

And in addition, it's always 5:00 NOW. Drink up.

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Sam Mertens's avatar

If you’re in Charlottesville, then that means it’s a good time to send my best wishes to you and Rachel, for whatever they may be worth.

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Gene Weingarten's avatar

Thank you. Twill be fine.

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Gabriel Goldberg's avatar

We canceled WaPo delivery yesterday, because of your excellent alternate news venue Washington Pist and my years of increasing irritation with it. As I read our last issue yesterday, starting as usual with comics, I wondered about your also excellent comic strip appearing in WaPo. That seems cognitive dissonance, out but still there.

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Bob Morris's avatar

Rachel is my hero. Nice piece...

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Mark Asquino's avatar

Now is as good a time as any!

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Otto's avatar

The answer to many existential conundrums can be found in Jimmy’s body of work.

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Robot Bender's avatar

This is true. He was a wise man.

How about a watch that says "Island time"on the dial?

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Jon Ketzner's avatar

My cohort says “ ford. “ If my brother wanted to say “put your forehead forward,” he’d say “ put your ford ford.”

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John's avatar

I think I say both at the same time, egg-ksit, but I can't be sure. Oh crap, now I'm conscious of my breathing.

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stephen dudzik's avatar

Now she needs the rest of the set to complete her week (TUE, WED, THU, etc.)

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Don Weingarten's avatar

It wouldn’t take my vote! I am morally offended!

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Robot Bender's avatar

Are you by chance Scottish?

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

Suggest the next iteration of the "Rachel Watch" have a functional crown to reveal not only "Now," but "Soon" and "Later" to add embodiment to the Manteuffel Special Theory of Relativity.

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