Dork Van de merde squawked in
news:tj_Jf.266785$nR7.8083486@phobos.telenet-ops.be
on 19 Feb 2006 (historic occasion):

" Polly want a kwacker
  http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/second.html
  The second is the duration of 9192631770 periods of the
  radiation corresponding to the transition between the two
  hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
 Polly want a kwacker"
-- Dirk Vdm

For the first time in his life he didn't mumble "time is what a clock says"
or try to tie it to the velocity of radiation, but to the count.
Give him his cracker.