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OT NINETEEN THINGS THAT IT TOOK ME 50 YEARS TO LEARN
NINETEEN THINGS THAT IT TOOK ME 50 YEARS TO LEARN
1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings." 3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." 4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. 5. And when God ( what ever you believe in ), who created the entire universe with all of its glories, decides to deliver a message to humanity, He WILL NOT use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle. 6. You should not confuse your career with your life. 7. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. 8. When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. 9. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. 10. Never lick a steak knife. 11. Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie. 12. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip. 13. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time. 14. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. 15. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven. 16. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers. 17. The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them. 18. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.) 19. Your friends love you anyway. |
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NINETEEN THINGS THAT IT TOOK ME 50 YEARS TO LEARN 13. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time. I wish someone would have told this one to Indiana's Governor, Mitch Daniels. We have now adopted to DST, and as soon as they decide whether we will be on Eastern or Central time, we will have to start changing our clocks 2x yearly. I liked it the way we were - in the summer, we were on Central time, winter we were equal to Eastern. sigh What a pain! |
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"Magic Mood Jeep?" wrote:
I wish someone would have told this one to Indiana's Governor, Mitch Daniels. We have now adopted to DST, and as soon as they decide whether we will be on Eastern or Central time, we will have to start changing our clocks 2x yearly. I liked it the way we were - in the summer, we were on Central time, winter we were equal to Eastern. sigh What a pain! Are you saying that at the beginning of the winter, you'd push your clocks one hour *ahead*? And then one hour *back* in spring? What was the reason for that? Joyce |
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"Magic Mood Jeep?" wrote:
Did I confuse you more? No, that made more sense, thanks. You're just saying that when people in the Eastern zone changed *their* clocks, they were then in sync with *you*. Is this why TV shows in the Central time zone are always on earlier? I grew up (in Massachusetts) always hearing that a show would be on at "9PM - 8PM Central". I still hear that in California. Joyce |
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... "Magic Mood Jeep?" wrote: Did I confuse you more? No, that made more sense, thanks. You're just saying that when people in the Eastern zone changed *their* clocks, they were then in sync with *you*. Is this why TV shows in the Central time zone are always on earlier? I grew up (in Massachusetts) always hearing that a show would be on at "9PM - 8PM Central". I still hear that in California. Joyce No, it's because 9PM Eastern time *IS* 8PM Central time! ; Hugs, CatNipped |
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CatNipped wrote:
Is this why TV shows in the Central time zone are always on earlier? I grew up (in Massachusetts) always hearing that a show would be on at "9PM - 8PM Central". I still hear that in California. No, it's because 9PM Eastern time *IS* 8PM Central time! ; That doesn't make sense. Why wouldn't people in Central time want to watch a show at 9PM *their* time? It's a taped show, so local stations and network affiliates can show it whenever they like. Besides, I still hear this in California (ie, "9PM - 8PM Central"), and 9PM California time is 11PM Central. By your logic, the show should be on at 6PM in California! (Which is exactly what happens when they show the Oscars, since that is live. It starts at 6PM in LA, but that means 9PM on the east coast. 9-11 or midnight seems like a civilized hour for a TV show. So when I first moved here, I couldn't get used to it being on so early in the evening. I haven't even started dinner at 6!) Joyce |
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CatNipped wrote:
wrote in message ... "Magic Mood Jeep?" wrote: Did I confuse you more? No, that made more sense, thanks. You're just saying that when people in the Eastern zone changed *their* clocks, they were then in sync with *you*. Is this why TV shows in the Central time zone are always on earlier? I grew up (in Massachusetts) always hearing that a show would be on at "9PM - 8PM Central". I still hear that in California. Joyce No, it's because 9PM Eastern time *IS* 8PM Central time! ; Hugs, CatNipped Which is why I liked being on Central time in the summer - the local stations broadcast shows on *our* time - but with the DirecTV satellite, we used toe be able to get Eastern broadcast stations (don't any more), and their shows were always on an hour *later* than ours! that way we could watch shows that were on competing stations... weird. But now we only get IN stations, *but* all the "cable" stations (Animal Planet, FOX news, CNN, Discovery, SciFi & all that) are on Eastern time (but most send out 2 signals, one for Eastern, one for Pacific, DirecTV sends you the one you are closest to), so we can still watch "My Wife & Kids" on ABC, and Mythbusters on Discovery, both on Wed night, 8m "Eastern" time. |
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... CatNipped wrote: Is this why TV shows in the Central time zone are always on earlier? I grew up (in Massachusetts) always hearing that a show would be on at "9PM - 8PM Central". I still hear that in California. No, it's because 9PM Eastern time *IS* 8PM Central time! ; That doesn't make sense. Why wouldn't people in Central time want to watch a show at 9PM *their* time? It's a taped show, so local stations and network affiliates can show it whenever they like. Besides, I still hear this in California (ie, "9PM - 8PM Central"), and 9PM California time is 11PM Central. By your logic, the show should be on at 6PM in California! (Which is exactly what happens when they show the Oscars, since that is live. It starts at 6PM in LA, but that means 9PM on the east coast. 9-11 or midnight seems like a civilized hour for a TV show. So when I first moved here, I couldn't get used to it being on so early in the evening. I haven't even started dinner at 6!) Joyce I don't know for sure, but I would imagine that there are a number of TV stations that service both Eastern and Central time zones (population density being more concentrated here, maybe?) and it's just easier to set the line-up for both. But once you get to Mountain and Pacific times the shows would be coming on too early for viewer convenience. Hugs, CatNipped |
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