Hijacking

[Foiled Again]

Only a white man would cut a foot off of the bottom of a blanket and sew it onto the top and think he'd made a longer blanket - Native American's observation about Daylight Savings Time

[Sky]

That reminds me of a joke.
What did the blanket say when it fell off the bed? Oh sheet!

[Zeppelinium]

Originally Posted by Protagonist

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Some states (Arizona and Hawaii) don't even use DST, and they get by just fine without it.
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There's a reason Hawaii doesn't do it--it's called latitude.

Arizona, not so much. I'm sure they just think it's neat to have to have three clocks on the wall at the Petrified Forest NP. Actually, I have no idea why Arizona does anything (or does not), except for pure contrariness. Weren't they late to the Martin Luther King party, too?

Z

[eubank]

It's even more complicated: The state of Arizona doesn't do DST, but the Navajo Reservation does. (The rez encompasses a hefty chunk of Arizona.)

Lynn

Originally Posted by Zeppelinium

There's a reason Hawaii doesn't do it--it's called latitude.

Arizona, not so much. I'm sure they just think it's neat to have to have three clocks on the wall at the Petrified Forest NP. Actually, I have no idea why Arizona does anything (or does not), except for pure contrariness. Weren't they late to the Martin Luther King party, too?

Z

[Zeppelinium]

Lynn, that's one of the three clocks. The other two are NP time and AZ state time. The Navajo clock and the NP clock change on different dates...
Z

[N2XBW]

Maybe we should eliminate local time zones entirely and go with Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) -also called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and and Zulu Time. For example, sunrise at my residence at 75 W. Long. is around 6:00 AM EST. This would be 11:00 UTC. It would also be 11:00 UTC in London, Bejing, and Moscow. Everyone would be on exactly the same clock. As the winter sun sets here at 4:30 PM it would be 21:30 UTC. UTC Lunch time for me is around 17:00. Just reset your brain and deal with it. It's only a matter of thinking about our local time in a new way.

[Sky]

Wow, after reading this thread for 7 years, this may be the most serious subject I have ever seen here. Sorry bout this, but I must say it. Times, they are a changin

[Protagonist]

Originally Posted by Sky

Wow, after reading this thread for 7 years, this may be the most serious subject I have ever seen here. Sorry bout this, but I must say it. Times, they are a changin

The discussion of time zones may read as serious, but it can't be helped. One can either discuss serious topics frivolously, or frivolous topics seriously. It you discus serious topics seriously, that's boring. If you discuss frivolous topics frivolously, that's just silly.

Daylight Savings Time and even time zones are kind of silly things to have anyway, so it's hard to make them sillier by being flippant about them.

Though I must admit, Rodney Dangerfield got plenty of mileage out of time zones in his stand-up routine. "She was so fat— How fat was she, Rodney?— that she wore a watch on each wrist because she covered two time zones! Didn't get no respect at all!"

[Jim & Susan]

Originally Posted by Sky

Wow, after reading this thread for 7 years, this may be the most serious subject I have ever seen here. Sorry bout this, but I must say it. Times, they are a changin

Long, Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I read in Readers' Digest (or was it the National Enquirer?) that Ben Franklin actually did "invent" he idea of Daylight Saving Time-----as a joke. I have no idea if that is true, but did read it someplace.

Fast forward a few decades and politicians/gub'ment/bureaucrats got hold of the "great idea". We all know what happened next.

Jim

[ROBERT CROSS]

Ummm....

[cwf]

Originally Posted by Foiled Again

Only a white man would cut a foot off of the bottom of a blanket and sew it onto the top and think he'd made a longer blanket - Native American's observation about Daylight Savings Time

Bingo!

[Gene]

That extra hour we got a few weeks ago gives us time to discuss time, thus a timely topic.

I'm for it, whatever it is, or should we resurrect the Argue Thread so I can argue with myself?

Gene

[Protagonist]

Originally Posted by ROBERT CROSS

We gotta get this thread back on course....daze light saving time

Am I the only one that sees a problem with this? It's the Hijacking thread! The only way to get back on course is to hijack the thread and discuss something else instead.

Hmmm…
We can't elect to discuss politics.
We don't have the moderators' blessing to discuss religion.
It would be naughty to discuss sex on a forum that's accessible to children.
Dang, with those topics gone, I got nothing. I guess we have to stick with discussing day-lite savings time after all.

[ROBERT CROSS]

...Farts, we still got farts...

[mistral blue]

Are Silent Farts Worse? - YouTube

excuse me

[cwf]

Originally Posted by mistral blue

excuse me

Wow... Now we have another concern and possible cause of filiform corrosion! Or is that fili-fart corrosion?

[ROBERT CROSS]

Originally Posted by Protagonist

Am I the only one that sees a problem with this? It's the Hijacking thread! The only way to get back on course is to hijack the thread and discuss something else instead.

Hmmm…
We can't elect to discuss politics.
We don't have the moderators' blessing to discuss religion.
It would be naughty to discuss sex on a forum that's accessible to children.
Dang, with those topics gone, I got nothing. I guess we have to stick with discussing day-lite savings time after all.

Hi Jack...

Bob

[Jim & Susan]

When I visited this thread for an update a few minutes ago, I inadvertently paged all the way down to the "similar threads". This recommended thread popped: http://www.airforums.com/forums/f427...ment-9485.html

U cain't make thus stuff up folks.

Jim

[cwf]

"Keep Lubbock Flat!"

[Sky]

This is kind of interesting if you have not seen it:

http://www.humanitiestexas.org/archi...r-minutes-2007