Comments (97)

1. Last week we gained a whole day with it being leap year and all. Shouldn’t the question be not where is our missing hour but where are we hiding the other twenty-three?

   posted by Rob on 3-8-2008 at 11:15 am

2. I work for the post office and we have a policy in which we can donate our sick leave to an employee who is seriously ill and doesn’t have enough sick leave of their own. In that same sense, I think all of these daylight savings hours, one hour per person, are collected in a big psychic time bank. Whenever someone is declared clinically dead and goes through one of those “light at the end of a tunnel” and “it’s not your time” experiences, but then comes back to life, they are given a big chunk of those hours to live out the rest of their renewed life. Just a thought.

   posted by Michael on 3-8-2008 at 11:16 am

3. time is really old. It doesn’t want to hang out around other old people. So around this time the older folks start to migrate back toward more temperate climates. So in order to offset this migration that hour goes to Arizona where there is no Daylight Savings Time. And spends a really cool summer feeling young and spry when young families and individuals want to enjoy their time. When November comes, the reverse migration occurs and that hour returns to enjoy winter and avoid the snow birds that make it feel old.

   posted by Matt on 3-8-2008 at 11:25 am

4. The hour is still there. Daylight savings springs backwards AND forwards. That hour still exists, we just rename it an hour back for daylight reasons. It’s both Twelve, AND One o’ clock. Very Matrixy.

   Sharing is Caring,
   men’s medium.

   posted by Will on 3-8-2008 at 11:26 am

5. Each year, the hour gets transported to a small New England village, and is transformed into an entity. These entities live on and form a community over the years, occasionally waxing poetic about their existence, and sometimes fall in love. They named the community Grover’s Corners, but everyone just calls it…

   Hour Town.
   ^_^

   posted by Johnny Cat on 3-8-2008 at 11:27 am

6. Come on Mental Floss – I expect more from you. Everybody knows that the “missing” hour is stored in a secret government warehouse in Arizona. (Ever wonder why they don’t observe DST?) It comes out of the warehouse in the fall. Duh.

   I did hear once about a break-in of the warehouse, instantly rendering the criminal blind from all the daylight that is saved there. That might be an urban legend though.

   posted by NoSpamSam on 3-8-2008 at 11:53 am

7. The DST hour continues to exist. It is not lost. It just becomes invisible during Daylight savings time. It’s exactly like the lunar phases. One cannot see the whole moon when only certain portions are illuminated. During the summer, just like certain creatures don camouflage to elude being eaten, the DST hour becomes invisible and phases away so that the extra sunlight can’t harm it. When it’s safe to come back in the fall, it reappears.

   posted by Morgana on 3-8-2008 at 12:00 pm

8. What do you mean where does this hour go? We’ve been living on borrowed time since last November. This hour is taking off for a vacation back-packing around Europe for the summer.

   posted by Patty on 3-8-2008 at 12:10 pm

9. It has become the time differential between the rescue ship and the island on Lost.

   posted by Jane on 3-8-2008 at 12:17 pm

10. The hour goes into the worst 6-month CD ever: 0 percent interest. If Father Time got a better bank, he could get almost 2 extra minutes in November! Then we could really call it “Saving.”

    posted by Jess on 3-8-2008 at 12:29 pm

11. The “lost” hour of Daylight Savings Time is hiding in the Land Behind the Dryer with all of our missing socks. The sock creatures who live there steal it once a year to remind us that time is precious, much as they steal our socks to remind us that material possessions are impermanent and fleeting. Every year they give us our chance to reform and to make something of our time, and so far they have (mercifully) credited the hour back to our account in the spring. Will we be so lucky next year?

    posted by Meg on 3-8-2008 at 12:51 pm

12. They go in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault with all of the very important genetically diverse seeds. That way we can keep them safe until we fall back!

    posted by Lauren on 3-8-2008 at 12:58 pm

13. The extra hour must go to James Patterson because that’s the only way he could manage to write a new novel every three weeks.

    posted by Ed on 3-8-2008 at 1:28 pm

14. That hour has been eating all winter and is really fattening up. Since it is almost swimsuit season she doesn’t want people to see her fat butt on the beach, so she has decided to hibernate until November 2nd. Then at 2 am on that chilly night in November, she will wake up, make a booty call, and start the eating fest all over again.

    posted by Carrie on 3-8-2008 at 1:35 pm

15. The Senior VP of the company I used to work for (rhymes with RcCormick & Rick’s Reafood Sestaurants–don’t even bother trying to decode that, it’s 1.28 bitch encrypted) collects that hour to make an extra day for us to work, called Chunday. These in turn are collected to make a 13th month, called Chumuary. There are no holidays in Chumuary, and yes, you are on that schedule.

    Death to Corporate Food!

    posted by Rason on 3-8-2008 at 2:41 pm

16. Ah, now, I didn’t want to reveal this little crime of mine, but for such a fine group of Flossers as yourselves, I suppose I could spill the beans… just this once.

    You see, for the past 101 years, I have been “borrowing” that hour. I don’t steal it, technically–I mean, whom would I be stealing it from? And it was William Willet’s idea in the first place.

    What do I do with it? Simple: I just rub a little bit of it onto my face and–voila!–wrinkle free again. How else would I have maintained the appearance of a bonny lass for the past century?

    But what about that hour we get back in the fall? Do I peel the time off my own face? Of course not! Let’s just say Keith Richards had a little debt to settle with me…

    Like i said, it was simple as 3.14159… and really a small task, for such a girl, too.

    posted by Allison on 3-8-2008 at 2:53 pm

17. the hour has been lost… to global warming.

    posted by steve on 3-8-2008 at 3:01 pm

18. Every year the evil aliens from planet Zorkiforgork steal one hour of our time, hoping to understand our species and cultures. During that hour, they examine every little thing we do, hoping to find one major flaw so that they will be able to take over our planet, but they have not yet found this mistake. Therefore, every year they are still looking for this flaw, so they take an hour of our time and try again each year, unsuccessfully!

    Hope you enjoyed that story, I was very bored

    posted by hannah on 3-8-2008 at 3:03 pm

19. well, technically, you arn’t losing an hour, as you borrowed it in the first place, from New Zealand, and we need it back in a few weeks, when our day-light savings ends, so, in the mean-time, it has a wee holiday on the way back here.

    Thanks ever so much for taking such good care of it!

    posted by Andrea-Ja on 3-8-2008 at 3:56 pm

20. The hour and daylight used to be kept in the depths of Mary Poppins’s carpet bag. She used the power of the cosmos to fuel her flying umbrella, but since the discovery of Laughter-as-Fuel, she has become “green”. Now the daylight has nowhere to go but out into the world. Arizona once made fun of it so it no longer goes there to visit.

    posted by Sarah on 3-8-2008 at 4:17 pm

21. The Illuminati took it to fund their ever growing time bank so they may ressurect Nixon and Regan, and run them under the zombie party. For president in 2008. I for one welcome our new zombie overlords.

    Marx
    xl

    posted by Jeremy on 3-8-2008 at 4:29 pm

22. Due to NAFTA, the hour moved to Mexico.

    posted by Tim on 3-8-2008 at 4:31 pm

23. The time we lose in the spring is given to the people who watched Norbit and complained to the right people. In the fall they’ll take the lost time from the people who watched Semi-Pro and return it to the rest of us.

    posted by Chris on 3-8-2008 at 4:40 pm

24. As for the extra hour,every year, it’s
    simply one more reson to live our lives
    in such a way/treat others well,etc…
    to assure ourselves “good Karma”. When
    our time on earth nears the end, the
    accumulated hours are given back to us
    if we are deemed worthy. So, there’s 1
    more reason to go Green,anti-NRA, and,
    above all, NEVER vote Republican!

    posted by Kathy Q. on 3-8-2008 at 4:51 pm

25. It will get stuck in the sofa with the odd sock and quarter. An alternate universe will eventually develop out of the deposit of time and be inhbited by ands that will subside upon the crumbs left over from old graham crackers. The socks will be used against the bitter ice age in this universe, and the quarters will be used as an alternative to inventing the wheel.

    That is, if nobody sits on it.

    posted by Rebecca on 3-8-2008 at 5:03 pm

26. The cumalative hours are combined used to air those never ending political ads — then come October, to add insult to injury they take away an hour and use the cumalative balance to extend our misery.

    posted by lakeshoresam on 3-8-2008 at 5:05 pm

27. The hour is transported on to the U.S.S. Enterprise, there is actually no such thingas warp drive, because according to the theory of reletivity nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so instead they use the extra hurrs tos seem like they are going faster than light.

    posted by Forest Ownbey on 3-8-2008 at 6:00 pm

28. The hour we lose this weekend, along with hours lost in playing WoW, trying to read and comprehend War and Peace, gym class, trying outrageous diets, trying to follow the love lives of celebrities in People, reading and forwarding chain mail, goes to the hours spent waiting in lines at Disney, listening to your math teacher’s lectures, the last few hours of the last day school, and waiting for public transportation in the middle of January .

    posted by em!ly on 3-8-2008 at 6:02 pm

29. In Wilford Brimley’s chest cavity, only to be burped out 6 months later during lunch with his, now terrified, nephew.

    posted by Joel Stoner on 3-8-2008 at 6:11 pm

30. It has been sucked into the black hole of stupidity we commonly know as Congress. After all, we have them to thank for this foolishness of messing with our time. Can’t they just leave it alone for Pete sake?!?

    posted by Cyndi on 3-8-2008 at 6:11 pm

31. The missing hour is not missing but actually an internal revenue tax on time. Since not everyone’s hour is worth the same wage, it is taxed with time itself. one, flat tax, everyone pays it equally.

    posted by ccvchango on 3-8-2008 at 6:33 pm

32. It is all a question of thermodynamics. As things heat, they expand. Time is not immune to this effect, so as temperatures increase it gradually takes longer and longer for a second to elapse. Rather than making many minute adjustments over the course of the summer months, and in an attempt to avoid the pratfalls of time appearing to be relative, these adjustments are made as one chunk, towards the start of the expansion process. So the answer is that your hour is merely a part of the cyclical nature of time and temperature.

    One corollary of this phenomenon is that, with the acceleration of global warming, today will eventually be tomorrow.

    posted by rexology on 3-8-2008 at 6:54 pm

33. All of the extra hours are packed into individual wooden crates. Every March, a lone forklift driver carts it through an astoundingly huge warehouse filled with other wooden crates of varying sizes. Last year’s hour was found just in time to put it back in October. Perhaps this year’s hour is sitting atop the Ark of the Covenant.

    posted by Keri on 3-8-2008 at 6:57 pm

34. All these extra Western hours are hanging out inside the bellies of all them Buddhas in Asia, where they don’t practice this nonsense. That is why the Buddha has that s**t-eating grin on his face – he’s thinking, you damn fools. This is all the time you’ve spent driving our cars and playing with our electronics. Belch!

    posted by Bx on 3-8-2008 at 7:39 pm

35. I tell ya, whenever I need a pick-me-up, all I need to do is go to this site. Some of these comments crack me up.

    I am not sure, but I think that hour is permanently lost like Lorenzo Lamas’ career. Nobody knows exactly where it went (or if there was one for that matter), but only the truly brave (or insane) will go to look for it. I, for one, hope it is never found.

    posted by It's good to be the King on 3-8-2008 at 8:32 pm

36. This year’s hour has packed its bags and hit the campaign trail. You can it’s ad in most papers. However you to look in the classified section to find listed with it’s running mate. That’s right. Lost and Found for Pres in 2008.

    posted by Tired of it already on 3-8-2008 at 8:50 pm

37. I miss my hour…

    posted by Stephen Davis on 3-8-2008 at 9:03 pm

38. see all of you assume that the hour stays together. But that isn’t the case. Think of it this way, a day is an industry (say televison). The industry has 24 hours and each hour is a big global conglamorate (or TV channel). Each of the sixty minutes are sub-companies of the hour (or your favorite primetime shows). And each minute is staffed by sixty seconds (some would say writers). After a long, long winter of putting in their time and disputes about payments for contributing to digital clocks, there is a disgruntled hour whose seconds refuse to contibute to the minutes and whose minutes never get the hour taken care of. The seconds go on a long labourous strike and put the entire minutes and hours out of work. The other hours basically rerun to fill in the gap. The reruns aren’t as good as the real hour but we all make do until November when the dispute is settled and we finally have new time again.

    posted by Katie on 3-8-2008 at 9:39 pm

39. People of most of the United States of America, I have your precious hour. I can assure you that it is safe, but if you would like to see it again, my demands need to be met. In exchange for a t-shirt of my choice from the Mental Floss store, I will release the hour this fall. Do not contact authorities, or you will never see your hour again. Bwah hah hah hah hah hah hah cough cough cough.

    posted by Brian on 3-8-2008 at 9:52 pm

40. The lost hour is wandering the streets of time, wondering where it can be put to best use. I don’t know where it will land, but I can recommend where it should go. It should be split between two Democratic candidates — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — so that each would use those extra minutes to think before they speak. Surely if they considered the total impact of their words on the Presidential election’s outcome, they might each want to take a minute to breathe before either one’s campaign workers (or they themselves) criticized the other so sharply, and needlessly, for the most part.

    posted by Edith S. on 3-8-2008 at 10:05 pm

41. Did you ever see the movie “Cocoon”? Aliens collect the time and when unsuspecting older people come in contact with the cocoon, they are granted extended life. That’s my theory.

    posted by Charlyn on 3-8-2008 at 10:58 pm

42. It’s shipped to India to pad the difference between the “expected wait time” and the actual eternity that your cable provider’s automated call center makes you listen to perky music while you seethe over the fact that if your call was really very important to them, they’d spend a few hundred more rupees on a few dozen more people to read the part of the script that tells you to unplug everything and wait 15 seconds before plugging it back in, just to see if you are really serious about wanting your TV and computer to work again.

    But that’s just a guess.

    posted by Karl on 3-8-2008 at 11:40 pm

43. Katie and Brian, woot!

    posted by John Coctosten on 3-9-2008 at 12:51 am

44. The hour is being collected for use in a lab. Each hour is used for crucial research. Scientists are brought in to determine which genes stretch an hour the most (the summer gene), shorten an hour, (the coffee break gene) and which ones can be used to genetically clone an hour (the workday gene).

    posted by Kevan on 3-9-2008 at 1:48 am

45. Sorry, guys. I lost the hour. While watching an old episode of X-Files, Agent Scully said “And if your sister is your aunt and your mother marries your uncle, you’d be your own grandpa.” My husband and I paused the show and spent an hour tracing this to see if it could be true. I think it should be changed to “your mother marries _her_ uncle.” Needless to say, I lost an hour for all of us.

    posted by spooler on 3-9-2008 at 3:10 am

46. It’s in the witness protection program, all very hush hush. what I can tell you is it saw SOMEONE kill time! (thats corny i know). Anyway, daylight savings time is just a cover up. Don’t let this get you down though, Hour will be back… probably sometime in august or september.

    posted by deidra on 3-9-2008 at 7:20 am

47. i think it went to the terrorists in a plan to make us all more sleep deprived

    posted by andy on 3-9-2008 at 7:21 am

48. What I can’t figure out is this: In the spring, for example, do we move the clock hands forward one hour or do we move the clock face back one hour?

    posted by Dail on 3-9-2008 at 8:01 am

49. Don’t worry, the hour is still there. It’s like frequent flyer miles, just sitting there waiting to be used. You just can’t use the minutes on days that end in “Y”, you can’t them between the hours of midnight and 12 noon and you can only use the hour one minute at a time. You can call a toll-free number that is always busy and you can book your minutes. You have to book your minutes at least eight months in advance and you have to pay the appropriate user fees and taxes at the time of booking. Minutes are non-refundable and non-transferable and have to be used before the next time change or you lose them.

    posted by Marla on 3-9-2008 at 10:04 am

50. The hour just vanishes, like that stray sock in the drier, then shows up again in 6 months covered in lint. Since it can’t communicate, nobody ever knows where that portal behind the drier leads to and from.

    posted by Lynne on 3-9-2008 at 10:28 am

51. It’s gone into the clutches of Mittelos Bioscience,with Mitelos being an anagram for (as any LOST-ie worth his/her salt knows)…

    LOST TIME.

    Yep, that’s where as least part of the missing hour is . Remember Daniel Faraday’s experiment a few weeks ago when he determined that there is a gap between ‘island’ time and elsewhere.

    posted by Amy on 3-9-2008 at 10:28 am

52. It’s all in HOUR minds…

    posted by sean on 3-9-2008 at 11:00 am

53. That was a great one, Johnny Cat!

    posted by anonymous on 3-9-2008 at 12:11 pm

54. Ya’ll are all bananas. Everyone knows the hour is used to pad the lost time we all spend on the internet when should be working.

    posted by Tessa on 3-9-2008 at 12:53 pm

55. I think it got stuck in the internet. Or maybe the ethernet.

    Either way, it’s not my fault, so don’t blame me. Please.

    posted by Dave on 3-9-2008 at 1:12 pm

56. The hour we lost last night didn’t go anywhere. It’s still there..right in the middle of the night. Watching. Waiting. Wanting to strike.

    posted by Synthia on 3-9-2008 at 1:24 pm

57. In the past. They* try to travel back in time to help Marty McFly** in ’55. However on their journey They* end up getting caught in the Twilight Zone where Rod Sterling takes the hour from them. By the time They* have gotten it back, after an intense battle with towel canons, it’s already time to come home and give all of us the hour back.

    * Who? Why it’s your choice, although it really is the people that work in the fish section of Pet Co, but to each his own.

    ** What else are the fish “experts” from Pet Co going to do on Saturday night besides watch great Sci Fi from the 80′s?

    posted by Emily S on 3-9-2008 at 1:30 pm

58. I’ll be compressing springs (creating a store of potential energy), then dissolving them in acid, with the result that the spring is eaten away by the acid.

    Then I will ponder where that potential energy went.

    posted by jeff on 3-9-2008 at 2:00 pm

59. The lost hour actually returns back to each of us at different times. For example, you are stuck in traffic for what feels like 2 hours, when it has only been 1.

    Idioms XL

    posted by Terry on 3-9-2008 at 2:06 pm

60. That hour has run away to join the circus. It will spend the summer learning the tight rope and how to shove itself into a clown car with many, many clowns. It might even learn how to tame lions. It will, however, become homesick in the end and come crawling back to us in November. (And hopefully, unlike my husband’s high school girlfriend, won’t come back knocked up by a carnie) It’ll be kind of like the episode of Madeline that made me cry as a kid…

    Idioms, women’s large, please!

    posted by Fruppi on 3-9-2008 at 2:32 pm

61. Once upon a time, there was an hour. It had worked hard all through the winter, this hour had: the hour had supervised late-afternoon snowball fights, last-minute grocery store trips, calls to the pizza delivery place, birthday parties, weddings, and Bar Mitzvahs.

    The lonely little hour, though, was unnoticed for much of its work. It stayed behind the scenes while people went about their lives as though that hour had never happened. They complained about there not being enough hours in the day, whined about not getting enough time to play before dark, and in general made themselves unpleasant.

    Finally, this hour had reached the breaking point. Making a quick call to its travel agent, the hour put in its two weeks’ notice, cashed in its savings (who do you think picks up all those dropped pennies?), and bought a ticket to Hawaii.

    Unfortunately, the hour forgot about the tighter security measures and failed to leave enough time; right now, the hour is stuck in a long line at the check-in counter, tapping its foot and wondering whether the person behind it would hold its place in line while it nips out for a cappucino.

    posted by Katherine on 3-9-2008 at 2:45 pm

62. My parents threw away my hour to make room for a gym when I went away to college :(

    posted by Matt on 3-9-2008 at 3:13 pm

63. Outer space.

    posted by Lisa on 3-9-2008 at 3:47 pm

64. it got lost in the united states budget

    posted by jeni Bartram on 3-9-2008 at 4:11 pm

65. Long ago a young bachelor named Father Time fell in love with an hour in what could only be described as an on-again-off-again relationship. Things went great through the winter, but nameless and shallow, she left him to pursue summer love interests. But soon after summer ends and would-be suitors go back to college, the hour feels lonely and attempts to reconnect with Father Time. Always the hopeless romantic, he is enamored by her charm every year. Later he would name two seasons after their love: Fall, for the time when he falls in love, and Spring, for when she disappears.

    posted by Steve on 3-9-2008 at 4:31 pm

66. Of course, the hour goes to those on welfare, who don’t need to be. (They don’t get the missing socks though – they don’t want them!)

    posted by Brittany on 3-9-2008 at 5:01 pm

67. The creators of Mystery Science Theater 3000 have sent it up disguised as a horrific B movie for Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow to riff while still trapped on the Sattelite of Love for over 20 years!
    It should then come out on video on November 2nd of this year when Daylight Saving Time ends.

    Simple as 3.121592…
    Men’s Medium

    posted by Ryan Smiga on 3-9-2008 at 5:09 pm

68. Made a mistake!

    Simple as 3.141592…
    Men’s Medium

    posted by Ryan Smiga on 3-9-2008 at 5:11 pm

69. 60 minutes:

    15 are the phone call I should have made to my mother.

    5 are the breakfast I should have eaten.

    15 are the haircut I really need.

    10 are the scrubbing my bathtub needs.

    14 are the shoveling my sidewalk needs.

    1 is the shot I wish I was doing right now.

    60 minutes

    posted by Kristin on 3-9-2008 at 5:35 pm

70. The extra hour wants to see the Grand Canyon and goes to Arizona.
    Karl Marx
    Men’s Medium

    posted by John P on 3-9-2008 at 5:50 pm

71. Any Lost fan knows that they missing DST hours are responsible for the time disparities on and surrounding the island where Oceanic flight 815 crashed.

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 3-9-2008 at 5:57 pm

72. The lost hour paid $3000 to see a Hannah Montana concert.

    Ship Happens
    Women’s small

    posted by Elizabeth on 3-9-2008 at 6:07 pm

73. It was eaten by the now. Greedy, selfish now.

    pi, mens medium.

    posted by Geoffrey on 3-9-2008 at 6:47 pm

74. I don’t know where the lost hour went, but I think that Ed’s idea about James Patterson makes the most amount of sense.

    posted by bet on 3-9-2008 at 6:55 pm

75. All of the hours that are stolen from everyone else come to me, and the men and women I work with. I am in the United States Military and we are always doing more with less. There are never enough hours in the day to complete everything, too many people deployed around the world. Not enough time with families and friend. Not enough time for the resque choppers to get the patients to a better hospital. And for far too many not enough time to make it home safe. So once a year we take an hour from everyone in the world, or at least try to. The down side is that we have to give it back in the fall, but at least we can help a few people until then.

    posted by Gregory on 3-9-2008 at 8:05 pm

76. We all know…Mr Nobody has it inside the tiny hour glass on the computer screen.

    posted by Lisa on 3-9-2008 at 8:07 pm

77. It went to the same place as that extra minute on the sleep button on the alarm clock. (Yes, I’ve read on here why that is…) :o)

    posted by Kimmer on 3-9-2008 at 8:41 pm

78. It’s still there. It just went on a crash diet that appropriately did its trick just in time for daylight savings. So thin it virtually disappeared. I have a hunch, however, that it will gain it back just as quickly in six months.

    Idioms, med wmn.

    posted by Stephanie on 3-9-2008 at 8:52 pm

79. The RIAA stole it.

    posted by Jess on 3-9-2008 at 8:57 pm

80. It’s all relative. The 60 minutes are not lost. They continue to expand and recede according to each person’s use. When you’re with someone you love, an hour seems like a minute. When you’re listening to a pundit on talk radio, a minute seems like an hour. Time is also money: you spend it, save it and waste it. Since I have no money, I have no time.

    posted by Adrienne on 3-9-2008 at 9:21 pm

81. Well, time is money, and Daylight Savings was invented by Ben Franklin, Mr. “Penny Saved” himself. So, every spring, the Government takes an hour from everyone and invests it until the fall, when it is refunded, and the interest is used for various government projects.
    That’s right, temporal interest. Why not? You can spend time, or save time, and you have even hear other people talk about investing their time wisely, right? Well, that’s what’s happening here, except on a national scale.
    How do you think we managed to get to the moon so quickly? We dug into the time bank and got busy. It was time well spent.
    Of course, in recent years, our government has been wasting time as much as it has money, and we’re operating at a temporal deficit. That’s why nothing ever seems to get done. There’s no time left, so we’re always running short of time. We need to let our lawmakers know that we want a balance temporal budget. We want to know how they spend their time, and we want them to stop wasting our time. Yes, it’s our time, and we want accountability!

    posted by Mark on 3-9-2008 at 9:37 pm

82. “The extra hour must go to James Patterson because that’s the only way he could manage to write a new novel every three weeks.”

    Ed, that was brilliant. I was going to try my hand at this whole “where did the hour go” thing, but seriously, who could top yours?

    posted by Jen on 3-9-2008 at 9:51 pm

83. The hour we lost today was due to the stress of living in our everyday world. With the crazy storms that have hit the US recently, the election, leap year, questions about the possibility of a looming recession, and the crimes sprouting everywhere, have all added up to feed the news outlets that spew out junk 24/7. That hour was just tired of all of it and decided to go on sabbatical and leave us to the insanity that we are trapped in. It’s probably heading for a place where no one can find it since the apocalypse seems to be upon us or at least approaching. It’s gone into hiding in the bermuda triangle and meeting up with Amelia Earhart.

    posted by Mercedes on 3-9-2008 at 10:54 pm

84. Those “lost hours” accululate throughout our lives and reappear during the long hours spent when your child is sick, or your parent is having surgery, or you are lonely. Fortunately they are few when we are young, and we’ve used most of them up by the time we are old.
    PERSEVERE!

    posted by Tracy on 3-10-2008 at 4:35 am

85. It’s on sabbatical until fall. It volunteers for six months at the Missing Sock Rehab facility.

    posted by Li on 3-10-2008 at 5:48 am

86. Accounting for billions (lets say 3) of people around the world and the 100 or so years DST has been in place is approximately 1.44*e^15 seconds. All that time has been EATEN. We have munched those numbers away, much to the dismay of the troggles. We are not all to blame, though – let’s not forget the Helpers (Trogglus assistus). And the hour we get back in the fall? That’s due to the Workers (Trogglus laborus) long nights putting all those numbers back after we’ve finished munching numbers and much on snack food instead. Sometimes the workers go a bit overboard. Then we get a full day back.

    posted by Ellen on 3-10-2008 at 7:28 am

87. Elvis has it. And it’s stashed under his Harry Potter Cloak of Invisibilty while he plays blackjack in Vegas.

    (Jimmy Hoffa is under there, too. They split proceeds. House always wins? House = Elvis.)

    posted by maybe...maybe not on 3-10-2008 at 9:32 am

88. I believe that hour went to the same place Mr. Spock went when they jettisoned his body off the Enterprise. Like Mr. Spock, that hour returns, alive and well, leaving the world in it’s natural order… do do do do…do do do do…

    posted by Cindy on 3-10-2008 at 9:51 am

89. We all know that money makes the World go around. So money is directly related to the rotation of the Earth. However, without some periodic input, money and the Earth’s rotation would dampen to a halt. To prevent this, we make a change in time every six months since time is money. This keeps the value of money oscillating, and henceforth keeps the Earth spinning.

    It’s all so obvious. Notice the reports that gas prices have risen 9 cents? Not really. Our withdrawal of one hour has devalued currency. Don’t worry though, it will resettle in November.

    But what about inflation, you say? Isn’t that why gas prices rise? No. Inflation is caused by our careless removal of 24 hours every four years without adding them back in elsewhere. Until we do away with this leap year mess, inflation will continue to spiral out of control.

    posted by Chris on 3-10-2008 at 11:16 am

90. George W. Bush has been taking these hours in the gallant attempt to use the time to verbalize a coherent thought. He gives them back come fall ’cause it ain’t working so goodlike.

    Personally, I’d give up yet another hour JUST TO SEE IT HAPPEN.

    posted by blechy on 3-10-2008 at 11:35 am

91. I once had time, but time is relative and my relatives took all my time, now I am out of time.

    posted by David on 3-10-2008 at 11:49 am

92. Once every year the universe has to use that extra hour for repairs. making sure the sun has enough solar mass for another year. Polishing the tectonic plates. Making sure that black holes still have a properly working event horizon. Just basic maintenance, the annual ‘tune up’ of the universe. We have no recollection of the hour due to the maintenance preformed upon us, our minds are put into ‘safe mode’ for this time.

    posted by Ian on 3-10-2008 at 12:13 pm

93. During its heyday in the late 90′s Microsoft managed to slip a bill by Congress that took an hour out of every calendar year to give to their programmers to allow them to literally work 30-hour days creating badly debugged software.

    posted by heather on 3-10-2008 at 2:10 pm

94. The daylight savings hour will be divided up to add 1 minute to each school day so that school children will have to wait that much longer for each school day to end. (remaining school days roughly 60) That is why school seems to last so much longer during the Spring. This will be countered by the seemingly fast rate at which the Summer flies by, leaving us no choice but to reinstate daylight savings time in the Fall. This is not a theory, but actually takes place. I am a high school teacher and witness it annually. (and all of you remember how longer school lasted in the Spring rather than the Winter!)

    Idioms are for the birds.

    Mens XL

    posted by tommy on 3-10-2008 at 2:48 pm

95. My missing hour was spent by my body convincing my my brain that it was really too early to get up. My brain, sheep that it is, replied, “The sunlight indicates that it is too early.”

    Thus, I was late for work.

    Shirt: Pluto, Medium

    posted by Miss Priss on 3-10-2008 at 4:48 pm

96. Every Spring, CBS takes the lost hour and uses it to film the opening sequence of 60 Minutes…otherwise, that little stopwatch wouldn’t be able to tick.

    posted by trey on 3-10-2008 at 5:19 pm

97. The question is not “where did the hour go?” The question should be, “Was there really an hour in the first place?”

    posted by G`nort on 3-10-2008 at 8:26 pm

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