[BC] Repetitively Redundant

[Barry Mishkind]

At 05:46 AM 9/2/2008, Gary Peterson, wrote
>How about "the time, right now, is...?"  I'm always glad when the phrase
>"right now" is given along with the time.  Otherwise, I wouldn't know if the
>time check was telling me what the time was 23 minutes ago, or not. :-)

         When I was in high school, we had a local
         announcer who always said "The time
         stands at X:XX"  ... I was impressed that
         he could stop time - but then I was young.