The FOR...NEXT loop for TIME increments by STEP 2 (every two jiffies) for two reasons: 1) the printing of 60 jiffies a second is too fast to read, and 2) the printing of each jiffy takes longer than its incrementations; this would delay the loop, so the printing of TIME$ is slower than it should be.

Then the Preſident thought it was time to acquaint the Aſſembly, that he had not been utterly unapprized of the deſign of the Monarch; that although he had not received official intimation, he had heard enough to provide for ſome diſpoſition, which, to comply with the wiſhes of the King, conſiſted only in removing of the tables of the Preſident and the Secretaries, and throwing a fleur de liſed carpet on the Preſident’s chair, for the accommodation of the King.[…]The Preſident having received him at the door, and handed him to the fleur de liſed chair.

'And anyway,' he added, 'Sprocket has the dirts with ya.'

Technically, there is no such thing as one zucchini. We rarely refer to one spaghetto or one broccolo, because it’s not considered good form to serve just one. But there are a lot of broccoli - a whole bunch, in fact, - on a single stem, whereas there is only one zucchino.