Originally Posted by Arthur P. Bloom
On a lighter note, I recently was filling out an on-line form which asked for "today's date" in the following format:

dd mm cccc.

It also had tiny little words under the spaces provided, explaining to those of us without a 4th grade education, what those letters stood for.

Here's what it said: "day" "month" "century"

Since I was born in the 19th century, and since I am a very literal and compliant person, (code for a hard-headed old Kraut-Mick) I typed in "1900" which it didn't like. I called the place that was asking for the info, and managed to get my blood pressure up trying to explain to the moron at the other end of the line that if they had wanted to know the year of my birth, they should have used "y y y y" instead of "c c c c".

Well, let's see. Millennials, common core, an education at a good college. Pick any or all as the cause.

-Hal

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