"Takin' Twenty with the Virginian Brethren" by Skip Salmon

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Yesterday was April Fool's Day. The big computer search engine "Google" 
changed its header to "Topeka", a reverse echoing of the move by Topeka, KS 
mayor to change that town's name to Google. My second favorite April Fool's 
Day prank was in 1975 when an Australian TV news program reported that 
their nation would convert to "metric time", making 100 seconds to the 
minute, 100 minutes to the hour, and 20 hours to the day with seconds 
called millidays, minutes called centidays and hours called decidays. My 
favorite April Fool prank was yesterday when I reported that ebay had a 
1937 Virginian Calendar for sale for $10. See H. Reid's "The Virginian 
Railway" page 90 where VGN president Carl Buckholtz gave me the 
idea.....Thanks to those who wrote and laughed with me!

Skip Salmon