# a timely reminder from longhair75

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-timely-reminder-from-longhair75/60409>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 1, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-timely-reminder-from-longhair75/60409 "2001-04-01T21:07:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-timely-reminder-from-longhair75/60409/1 "2001-04-01T21:07:31Z")

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good afternoon friennds,

last night, we all remembered to change our clocks, didn’t we?

another important thing to do today is to check the battreies in your smike detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.

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**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-timely-reminder-from-longhair75/60409/2 "2001-04-01T21:11:04Z")

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friends,

please forgive my typos. i submitted rather than previewed.  
[ul]  
[li]check your smoke detector batteries[/li][li]check your carbon monoxide detector batteries[/li][li]hi opal[/li][/ul]

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**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-timely-reminder-from-longhair75/60409/3 "2001-04-01T21:28:53Z")

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Damn.

And here was, worried about detecting smikes…