Hey, if we secede and join Canada, we can go on Atlantic Time. 'Vantage number three, 'satiable Elephant's Child.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, monsieur Hetley," tsk-tsks Pernicious the Musquodoboit Harbour Farm Cat's faithful amanuensis and general factotum. "You have neglected to take into account the venerable precedent of Newfoundland... as a precondition to your admittance to the Confederation, and as penance for your various malfeasances and high misdemeanours since we last had control of your governmental apparatus (and a sincere thank you, by the way, for that 1812-14 series of customs duties contributions to Lord Dalhousie's Castine Fund, which in part pays my salary to this very day), we shall require that your time be set one-half hour earlier than New Brunswick's..."
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Date: 2008-11-02 02:05 pm (UTC)"Tsk, tsk, tsk, monsieur Hetley," tsk-tsks Pernicious the Musquodoboit Harbour Farm Cat's faithful amanuensis and general factotum. "You have neglected to take into account the venerable precedent of Newfoundland... as a precondition to your admittance to the Confederation, and as penance for your various malfeasances and high misdemeanours since we last had control of your governmental apparatus (and a sincere thank you, by the way, for that 1812-14 series of customs duties contributions to Lord Dalhousie's Castine Fund, which in part pays my salary to this very day), we shall require that your time be set one-half hour earlier than New Brunswick's..."