"Okay, that's exactly one moment..."

Remember in the episode "Bart the Mother" where Skinner walks out of the door looking at his watch and saying "Okay, that's exactly one moment."? That was a good joke, but it turns out that a moment actually has a defined length. A moment is exactly 120 seconds. Just a little tidbit of information. ;p

00 Agent Kid wrote:

I read somewhere that (excuse me a moment - my urban legend alarm just went off when I said that...and...now) a moment was 90 seconds. Then again, maybe different international standards organizations have different lengths - a "metric moment" and an "English moment"?

-- Don

Don Del Grande wrote in news:[email]:

Wait, I got confused. A giffy is 1/120 of a second. A moment is 90 seconds.

Once Upon A Summertime, Just A Dream From Yesterday Don Del Grande wrote:

I don't think "moment" has ever been officially defined in seconds, but I have read that it is equal to 1/2 of a Jiffy, or approximately 3.7 Flashes.

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When Abe went into the Retirement Castle and returned with Marge's fake mom, he said he'd "be back in a jiffy!"

A "shake" is defined as 0.000 000 01 seconds (or 10 nanosenconds) (I only know this because Tom Clancy's /The Sum of All Fears/ had the chapter "Three Shakes", where the bomb went off). It's basically only used to describe the events in a nuclear reaction.

As far as I know, there is no official "moment" unit.

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odd, seeings how we use the metric system here in britian.

JQM

"James Q. Morrissey" wrote in message news:c46ngo$cck$[email]...

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moment."?

What's odd? We use the English system, as opposed to the metric system, in everyday life in the US. The metric system, on the other hand, is the "legal" method of measuring things...they just don't make signs and such that way...

i mean it's odd calling it the english system when no-one in england would use it, especially created now.

JQM

"James Q. Morrissey" wrote in message news:c4a2ea$1ka$[email]...

Yeah, but that's where it originated...you crazy Brits...you've made generations of American children hate math...and math didn't need your help...

"00 Agent Kid" wrote in message news:[email]...

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-------- The only reason we say that a moment is exactly 120 seconds is because of that old riddle, "What happens once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years?" (of course the answer is the letter M).

In article , Jay LaRochelle says...

That's what I was going to say.

Flakey Foont

Says who?