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principessa
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 Posted: 04/06/03 - 08:38 Post subject: Spring forward!
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In case y'all forgot--move your clocks ahead one hour!
WOOT..how many days til summer???
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Finigan
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 09:05 Post subject:
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What kind of f*****g vindictive c********r thought it would be a good idea to steal one hour of a man's sleeping-time?
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sinrakin
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 09:17 Post subject:
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| Finigan wrote: | | What kind of f*****g vindictive c********r thought it would be a good idea to steal one hour of a man's sleeping-time? |
I think it was Ben f*****g Franklin. Why not just stay on daylight savings time all year if it's SO important to have it be light on summer evenings?
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principessa
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 10:39 Post subject:
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You likely won't remember this, but during the "energy crisis" of around 1973, they moved the clock ahead TWO hours...
THAT sucked!
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Domination
Can't Stop Posting
Joined: 13 Oct 2002
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Location: Atlanta, GA
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 10:42 Post subject:
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thats some damn good trivia stuff you got there Princi
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TASB
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Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 1104
Location: The Outback
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 11:00 Post subject:
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Cheer shourthern hemisphere, we have been getting an extra hours sleep for the past couple weeks.
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eqchanter
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Joined: 04 Dec 2002
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Location: tennessee
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Mental_Hernia
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
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Location: Texas
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 11:35 Post subject:
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Hah! This made me think of Minion...
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Spelling & grammar
The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.
Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). It modifies time and tells us more about its nature; namely, that it is characterized by the activity of saving daylight. It is a saving daylight kind of time. Similar examples would be dog walking time or book reading time. Since saving is a verb describing a single type of activity, the form is singular.
Nevertheless, many people feel the word savings (with an 's') flows more mellifluously off the tongue, and Daylight Savings Time is also in common usage, and can be found in dictionaries.
Part of the confusion is because the phrase Daylight Saving Time is inaccurate, since no daylight is actually saved. Daylight Shifting Time would be better, but it is not as politically desirable. In fact, scientifically misguided politicians sometimes misunderstand. In 1995, the British Time (Extra Daylight) Bill was introduced by John Butterfill, attempting the impossible -- to legislate extra daylight. The bill did not pass.
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Finigan
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 12:49 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | I think it was Ben f*****g Franklin. |
I don't need some kite-flying, hitler-loving, commie son of a w***e telling me what to do with my sleeping time. And f**k energy conservation. I leave all the lights in my house, and the kitchen faucet running 24/7 just to spite "the man".
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principessa
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 14:47 Post subject:
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and Fin, to add to that list--
The man was a LECH!
Had to read his autobiography as a frosh in college ....he had a thing for er....YOUNG women, shall we say?
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Finigan
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 18:55 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | Had to read his autobiography as a frosh in college ....he had a thing for er....YOUNG women, shall we say? |
Sweet! Me too!
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Rennol
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 19:11 Post subject:
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I think every guy has a thing for women around the age of 18, starting when they are like, 18, and lasting until they die.
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Ishmobbin
( . )( . )'s Are Fun!
Joined: 09 Oct 2002
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Location: Texas
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 19:48 Post subject:
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it starts a bit b4 you turn 18, more like 12 
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Finigan
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 20:44 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | it starts a bit b4 you turn 18, more like 12 |
more around...6
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Aluaeia
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Posted: 04/06/03 - 21:58 Post subject:
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| Finigan wrote: | | Quote: | | it starts a bit b4 you turn 18, more like 12 |
more around...6 |
You like them rather young.
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