Posted on 03/09/2007 4:57:01 AM PST by Lucky9teen
This weekend Daylight Saving Time begins, at 2am on Sunday, March 11th. Ah, time...great, we lose an hour this weekend, and that means one less hour to play, drink, sleep, and just be. Let's kill some time here then....
What do you do with your time? Do you Spring Forward this weekend?
2007 Daylight-saving change could confuse gadgets
Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time in British English, is the convention of advancing clocks so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour in late winter or early spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Details vary by location and change occasionally.
Governments often promote DST as an energy conservation measure because it substitutes summer afternoon sunlight for electrical lighting. However, in some cases DST can increase energy costs.
Daylight Saving Time - for the U.S. and its territories - is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and by most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona).
"An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later."
-Winston Churchill
It's been cold, but we're expecting a big warmup today. Might get close to 60.
Decisions! Decisions! Decisions!
Oooo-Rah!!!!
GI Joe, making the highways safe for all people!!!
IRT your tagline....
You can pick your friends
You can pick your nose
But you can't pick your friend's nose.
AND
It's not whether you pick your nose, it's WHERE YOU PUT THE BOOGERS!!!!
Yeah, I think I could have a beer and shoot the bull with that guy.
Back in the seventies when Roone Arledge took over the news division at ABC (he was already running the sports division) ABC had a corporate image crisis.
For years NBC was Proud as a peacock. And CBS had the eye but what did ABC have that was memorable? Not a whole lot. so the corporate powers that be tried to update the image of the network.
One plan that didn't work out quite as well as hoped was a revamp of the corporate headquarters. The board wanted something that would call instant attention to the network and yet was pleasing to the eye. They brought in a image consultant and he suggested building the ABC logo on the front of the building out of glass and turning the letters into huge fishtanks.
Proving that the networks can sometimes be flaky the board thought that was a good idea.
It just so happens that my uncle owned a pet store in New York at the time and ABC contracted with him to set up the tanks and keep them well stocked. They decided that 150 medium sized angel fish for each letter would be enough and my uncle set the tanks up accordingly.
On the day when the fish were to be put into the tanks (after the water had set for a sufficient time) my uncle and his son, my cousin, were emptying all the various fish into the letters. My uncle started on the "A" and his son started on the "C". after getting 100 fish into his tank my cousin droppped the last container holding about 50 striped angels onto the ground. The container broke, spilling, and killing, most of the fish.
My uncle came over and told him not to worry about it, there's plenty of fish in the "C"
*choke*
I was having a hard time waking up, but that "pander pie" really did the job! Thanks!
ROTF!
AND
You can pick your friends,
and you can pick your nose,
but you can't roll your friends into little balls.
We're hoping for a high of 50 tomorrow. I can't wait.
SICK SICK SICK!!!!
Mother Superior called all the nuns together and said to them, "I must tell you all something. We have a case of gonorrhea in the convent."
"Thank God," said an elderly nun at the back. "I'm so tired of chardonnay.
Could you take me off your ping list for awhile? I'm being deluged by the sheer volume of different ping lists that I'm on and I need a time out.
Thanks!
HA! I need to use that with the kids! LOL
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