# Anyone seen the sun lately?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 7, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205 "2004-01-07T14:25:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/1 "2004-01-07T14:25:26Z")
**Missing persons report**
_Name_
The Sun
Aka. Sol, Star, Helios, Sonne, Solei, Sole, life-giver, etc.
_Age at disapperence_
Approx. 5 billion.
_Last seen_
In September.
_Description_
Big, shining, yellow, circular. Sometimes red, especially in the morning and evening. Stays mostly in the sky. Seldom, if ever, seen during dark nights. Fairly large, especially when seen up close. But in no way overweight. Travels around a lot. Happy go luck kind of guy, with a radiating personality. Height: roughly 1,390,000 km. Weight: circa 1.989e30 kg.
If someone abducted dear sun, please return him. He is greatly missed, life is cold and miserable without him. Besides this constant darkness is really driving me to the pits.
- Rune
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/2 "2004-01-07T14:28:59Z")
Yeah, sorry. He’s in my yard at the moment, making the grackles look all sparkly. Shall I just call out to him and send him your way?
I love living here in the winter. I liked Yellowknife, but living at 63 degrees North is not so good when you get all of four hours of sunlight in a day.
Cheer up, it’ll come back soon!
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/3 "2004-01-07T14:34:42Z")
It’s all bright and sunny and pretty and chilly right now. What a lovely morning.
😃
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/4 "2004-01-07T15:00:33Z")
We in Cleveland last saw the being in question last Saturday; he was quite bright.
I think he took a train to Florida.
Lets all clap and say
Here Comes The Sun
da da da da da
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/5 "2004-01-07T15:30:33Z")
If the sun is missing, he might be going down on Elton john.
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### Author:  [@Sat\_on\_Cookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sat_on_Cookie)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/6 "2004-01-07T15:39:44Z")
/hijack
Is it just me or is Denver one of the sunniest places on Earth? I lived there for five years and was ready to drop kick the sun into the next universe. I had headaches from how damn sunny it was. Even when it snowed, it was sunny. Bah.
/hijack
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### Author:  [@Scarlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlet)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/7 "2004-01-07T15:43:29Z")
you must be in michigan… I think the sun leaves this state 9 months out of the year.
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### Author:  [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/8 "2004-01-07T16:36:21Z")
Every damn day. Please go away Mr. Sun and let us have a real winter day, just once a year!
Go visit Denmark for a change. I’m tired of you.
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### Author:  [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/9 "2004-01-07T16:48:25Z")
The Yellow Face hurtses us! It burns, it burnsss!
We hates it.
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### Author:  [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/10 "2004-01-07T17:51:37Z")
I stole it.
But it was too hot to fence!
Ba-boom-ch!
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### Author:  [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/11 "2004-01-07T18:31:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \*
> \*\*It’s all bright and sunny and pretty and chilly right now. What a lovely morning.
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> 😃 \*\*
Rabbit, that sums it up perfectly. This is one of the few times during the year I can tolerate the weather in New Orleans. I’m not worried about getting heat stroke while working outside, hurricane ripping the roof off my house or the streets turning into rivers trying to get into my house. Oh how nice it is.
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/12 "2004-01-07T18:51:50Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Scarlet \*
> \*\*you must be in michigan… I think the sun leaves this state 9 months out of the year. \*\*
It says Copenhagen, Denmark as his location. And if you think Michigan is bad, don’t go any further north.
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### Author:  [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/13 "2004-01-07T19:26:51Z")
You know, **Ginger** , the long arctic nights never bothered me so much (with the exception of one Yellowknife winter when I had ALL the symptoms of SAD). The long days, though, seemed to make me and everybody else pretty insane. And anytime I got into the true 24 hour sun areas during the summer, everone seemed totally loony, even by our relaxed northern standards.
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### Author:  [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/14 "2004-01-07T19:34:17Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \*
> \*\*If the sun is missing, he might be going down on Elton john. \*\*
😃 😃 😃
That’s really funny.
Last I saw Elton John, he was singing with the crocodiles on the Muppet Show.
Now and forevermore, the thought of Elton John will make me giggle. Never liked his music much, but it seems he has other uses …
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### Author:  [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/15 "2004-01-07T19:43:37Z")
I have the controls set for the heart of it…
I see it now.
“They’re gone. I’m free now… Oh God…”
Can anyone name the two references?
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### Author:  [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/16 "2004-01-07T19:44:09Z")
I’m looking at it right now…all shiny on that blue sky backdrop.
Unfortunately my friend, the Sun isn’t doing his job because it’s freakin 40 degrees here and I’m freezing.
When will summer get here???
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/17 "2004-01-07T20:16:43Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday \*
> \*\*You know, **Ginger** , the long arctic nights never bothered me so much (with the exception of one Yellowknife winter when I had ALL the symptoms of SAD). The long days, though, seemed to make me and everybody else pretty insane. And anytime I got into the true 24 hour sun areas during the summer, everone seemed totally loony, even by our relaxed northern standards. \*\*
My YK-dwelling sister is a total loony all year. It could be SAD, or she could just be loony. By the time Caribou Carnival rolls around, she’s Raven Mad. 😃 Where do you live, and when were you in YK? I may know you!
**Steelerphan** : I’d respond, but I’m spending the year dead for tax purposes.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/18 "2004-01-07T20:33:28Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by The Long Road \*
> \*\*Rabbit, that sums it up perfectly. This is one of the few times during the year I can tolerate the weather in New Orleans. I’m not worried about getting heat stroke while working outside, hurricane ripping the roof off my house or the streets turning into rivers trying to get into my house. Oh how nice it is. \*\*
Tell me about it. I’ve been here just about exactly a year, and I’ve been waiting for this weather to come back since about February! I really need to move somewhere where they have at least a mild winter. I HATE heat.
My move here was dictated by circumstances more than choice, though aside from the humidity I’m enjoying it.
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### Author:  [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/19 "2004-01-07T20:37:07Z")
**Ginger** , it’d be cool if we’d met, but I think it’s unlikely. I was in YK from '86-90, and Iqaluit from 1999-2001. In T.O. at the moment, we’ll see for how long. Still know some people in the North, so I suppose we might have mutual acquaintances. If you want to take it to e-mail, drop me a line.
Rube
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### Author:  [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-the-sun-lately/223205/20 "2004-01-07T22:11:55Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \*
> \*\*It’s all bright and sunny and pretty and chilly right now. What a lovely morning.
>
> 😃 \*\*
Oh, bad karma man! You’re definitely going to have a least six legs in your next life for that one.
GingerOfTheNorth,
Four hours a day. That’s about what we have. When you can see it for the clouds that is. Except I’m a work these hours, so poor me only get to have some furtive glimpses of the sun in the weekends.
Autz,
Yes please send sun home. I’m off to bed. Can I expect to see him back tomorrow then? Bright and shining as usual?
- Rune
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