Q 'n' A per se.

[Guest]

 

[EJFan]

yup. the Aleutian(sp?) Islands straddle the 180deg. longitude line.

your wisdom is exceeded only by your great beauty.

 

[silverwhisper]

damned aleutian islands...

gr.

ed

 

[Quoll]

OK, now I'm really perplexed. I thought last Sept. or so the time difference was 14 hours from here. I seem to be in the same time zone as bobsgirl, Eastern US, but now the time difference is 16 hours. In Oct. we turned back our clocks one hour. Did you turn yours ahead one hour?

After some research, I think I answered my own question.

time zone for quoll's location (and possibly australwind's too) is GMT +10. And one hour for Daylight Savings Time currently in use, so it's GMT + 11.

eastern time (us) is currently GMT - 5. Therefore a difference of 16 hours between locations. During the summer here we have daylight savings time, turning clocks ahead 1 hour, so our time would be GMT - 4. Then the difference ould be 14 hours.

So, the last few days when I've been thinking quoll has been logged in here at 3am (and thinking he's having trouble sleeping), it's actually been 5 am.

Yes.




Except on Modays ( your Sunday) when I do get up at 3:am or those nights when I cant sleep.

 

[Quoll]

More impressions.

Be vewwy vewwy qwiet, I'm hunting wabbits, heh heh ehh.

Your'e dithpicable.

Suffewing succotash.

I tawt I taw a puddy tat. (hate that little shit.)




Oh...wait a minute, probably not the sort of impressions you meant huh.

At times it seems like your individual states are more like individual countries, the differences (socially)between some of them seem quite large.

 

[silverwhisper]

quoll quoth
i tawt i taw a puddy tat (hate that little shit.)

that gives me an idea for a poll...

ed

 

[Quoll]

I can only imagine what kind of impression you get from the TV. good Lord...

P.S I set my clock fast on purpose. I'm under the illusion that it helps me be on time. The clock in my car is 15 minutes fast, and I'm still late.

We have that many things with time displays on them that I can lose ten minute just going from the bedroom to the kitchen.

No wonder you are always late, you lose fifteen minutes between house and car, you should set your car clock back, that way you will always have more time.

 

[Quoll]

that gives me an idea for a poll...

ed

*smacks self on forehead* shit.

 

[silverwhisper]

it's all grist for the mill, quoll...

ed

 

[Guest]

 

[EJFan]

At times it seems like your individual states are more like individual countries, the differences (socially)between some of them seem quite large.

quoll... you bring up a great point here. US "states" were named such because the federal government wanted to have (in name and function) a collection of autonomous states collected into one nation, yet with each acting as its own mini-nation (for want of a better description). this, of course, was at the core of the US civil war... does governmental power prevail at the state or federal level?

over the years, there have been shifts in power... sometimes the federal government is the hub of all power and sometimes it acts more like an umbrella. right now, because money is short and federal politicians are afraid of taking a stand on many issues, the states are being given more power to govern themselves. with this, of course, comes the need for more local money and a reduction in federal dollars funding local projects.

the whole thing is very ridiculous.

 

[Quoll]

quoll... you bring up a great point here. US "states" were named such because the federal government wanted to have (in name and function) a collection of autonomous states collected into one nation, yet with each acting as its own mini-nation (for want of a better description). this, of course, was at the core of the US civil war... does governmental power prevail at the state or federal level?

over the years, there have been shifts in power... sometimes the federal government is the hub of all power and sometimes it acts more like an umbrella. right now, because money is short and federal politicians are afraid of taking a stand on many issues, the states are being given more power to govern themselves. with this, of course, comes the need for more local money and a reduction in federal dollars funding local projects.

the whole thing is very ridiculous.

Ok that makes sense, (your explanation), we seem to be moving towards a more uniform system across the states at the moment, trying to bring some sort of similarity to the different laws and hopefully move away from some of the more ridiculous stuff that was done in the past. At one point we had two different guage railway lines between two state capitals, so everyone had to change trains at the border.


When the revolution comes the politicians will be the first ones put up against the wall and shot.
Technically second, because the lawyers were always going to be first, but that's a given.

 

[Guest]

 

[midwestyankee]

It's the concept of the International Date Line that has me confused. MrB finally got exasperated and gave up trying to explain it.

International Date Line? Hell, I have enough trouble finding dates in the U.S. No way I'm standing in line for the international ones.

 

[bobsgirl]

International Date Line? Hell, I have enough trouble finding dates in the U.S. No way I'm standing in line for the international ones.

Psst, Yank... You can find international dates in the grocery aisle with the other dried fruits. Although a good domestic date is an adequate substitute.

Just thought you'd like to know.



* I know where I can find a couple of nice ripe melons.*

 

[midwestyankee]

Psst, Yank... You can find international dates in the grocery aisle with the other dried fruits. Although a good domestic date is an adequate substitute.

Just thought you'd like to know.



* I know where I can find a couple of nice ripe melons.*

Thanks for keeping me currant here, BG.

 

[bobsgirl]

Thanks for keeping me currant here, BG.

Sharing knowledge is my raisin for being, Yank.

(One of these days I expect to start hearing that song from "Annie, Get Your Gun": Anything you can do, I can do better... )

 

[midwestyankee]

Sharing knowledge is my raisin for being, Yank.

(One of these days I expect to start hearing that song from "Annie, Get Your Gun": Anything you can do, I can do better... )

Apricot of almost nothing, BG, what is your favorite musical?

 

[bobsgirl]

Apricot of almost nothing, BG, what is your favorite musical?

Hard to just pick one, as Broadway show tunes are a particular fondness of mine. The old ones, I guess. The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady. Oh, and Camelot. The sweet young bobsgirl was almost seduced in the back of a theater while King Arthur sang, "How to Handle a Woman". *sigh*

 

[midwestyankee]

Hard to just pick one, as Broadway show tunes are a particular fondness of mine. The old ones, I guess. The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady. Oh, and Camelot. The sweet young bobsgirl was almost seduced in the back of a theater while King Arthur sang, "How to Handle a Woman". *sigh*

So this young man, did you like his lance a lot?

 

[SweetErika]

Yank, Quoll, Ed, TBK, Scaly...where did you meet your wives and/or how did you propose? I'm sure you've answered these here before, but I don't recall even the Cliff Notes version.

 

[midwestyankee]

Yank, Quoll, Ed, TBK, Scaly...where did you meet your wives and/or how did you propose? I'm sure you've answered these here before, but I don't recall even the Cliff Notes version.

Cliff Notes version: at work. Propose? I have no recollection of such an event taking place, nor do I have any contemporaneous notes about it.

 

[EJFan]

Yank, Quoll, Ed, TBK, Scaly...where did you meet your wives and/or how did you propose?

hmph. fine. don't ask me. don't include EJ in your little census. see if i care. you can't make me cry. i won't lose any sleep over this. no indeedy.

 

[SweetErika]

hmph. fine. don't ask me. don't include EJ in your little census. see if i care. you can't make me cry. i won't lose any sleep over this. no indeedy.

All of this time you've been trying to get rid of the pussies, yet now you're telling us you've been secreting one away, inside your home no less?

You know I was just taking my time to craft an extra special question for such a special guy. Patience, my friend, patience.

 

[EJFan]

All of this time you've been trying to get rid of the pussies, yet now you're telling us you've been secreting one away, inside your home no less?

You know I was just taking my time to craft an extra special question for such a special guy. Patience, my friend, patience.

it's ok erika... i'm not married anyway... someone'll have to get me pregnant first.

thanks for calling me "special" though... even if you DO mean it in the short-bus sense.