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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Does "come bang on time" mean "come exactly at right time"?
Context:
When I received the invitation, I thought, well, so that's what happened to Guy Matthias. He had retreated, back to his bunker.
It was a long story.
The invitation said:
"GUY MATTHIAS WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO HIS 2013 END OF TIME CHRISTMAS PARTY at THE BUNKER nr ITHACA, New York. Come as you are..."
"The bunker" was not actually near Ithaca – it stood in a lonely valley, further north. Guy bought it in 1999, when he was getting ready for the Y2K Apocalypse. He thought the end would come bang on time, as the new millennium dawned, he actually thought it would all fit neatly into the Gregorian calendar! When the apocalypse didn't fit neatly, and didn't come at all, Guy had a long dark night of the soul but then he emerged full of hope again. He'd just mistimed it. He was wary of the obvious next time around: he decided not to sign up with the
When I received the invitation, I thought, well, so that's what happened to Guy Matthias. He had retreated, back to his bunker.
It was a long story.
The invitation said:
"GUY MATTHIAS WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO HIS 2013 END OF TIME CHRISTMAS PARTY at THE BUNKER nr ITHACA, New York. Come as you are..."
"The bunker" was not actually near Ithaca – it stood in a lonely valley, further north. Guy bought it in 1999, when he was getting ready for the Y2K Apocalypse. He thought the end would come bang on time, as the new millennium dawned, he actually thought it would all fit neatly into the Gregorian calendar! When the apocalypse didn't fit neatly, and didn't come at all, Guy had a long dark night of the soul but then he emerged full of hope again. He'd just mistimed it. He was wary of the obvious next time around: he decided not to sign up with the
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Exactly at the scheduled time. That is, at 12 midnight, eastern time, as Dec 31, 1999, became January 1, 2000.
- Exactly at the scheduled time.
- That is, at 12 midnight, eastern time, as Dec 31, 1999, became January 1, 2000.
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Exactly at the scheduled time. That is, at 12 midnight, eastern time, as Dec 31, 1999, became January 1, 2000.
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