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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle
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"Even A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day"..............
Success obtained through dumb luck. Even people who are usually wrong can be right sometimes, even if just by accident. From the idea that the stationary hands of a broken clock will still display the correct time at two points during the 24-hour cycle.
Sidebar: This phrase goes back to at least the early 18th century. It was used in a magazine called The Spectator, by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, from the year 1711:
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