Comments on: Weekend Genius Challenge #23: Spring Forward

By: G`nort

G`nort — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:26:21 +0000

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

By: trey

trey — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:19:13 +0000

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.

By: Miss Priss

Miss Priss — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:48:08 +0000

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

By: tommy

tommy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:48:17 +0000

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

By: heather

heather — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:10:20 +0000

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.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:13:25 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:49:28 +0000

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

By: blechy

blechy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:35:37 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:16:55 +0000

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.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:51:37 +0000

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…