8:20

[Tom Stanton]

Everett & Son Books wrote:
> 
> Fellow Rocket Heads:
> It has always been my understanding that timepieces are set at 8:20
> because this was the hour (p.m.) that President Abe Lincoln was shot at
> Fords. (other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?)
> Dale

I remember lots of people telling me everyone will go quiet at 
once. -- animals do this too -- twice a day, morning and night, 
on some sort of cosmic cycle. An urban legend if you will...