Little Nemo. You’d think with 8,000 posts under your belt that you’d know:
Since you were the first to do this, you get the warning. Quit it.
And all the rest of you lemmings who followed–QUIT IT!
samclem GQ moderator
:smack: And now that I read the whole thread, I see xash has already been here.
We’re in the 21’st century now, and there’s no reason for anybody to have to use daylight savings time. It’s a silly and anachronistic policy. Retail stores often have different winter and summer hours, and somehow the employees manage to figure it out and show up on time without someone forcing them to change their clocks.
Pah. This being GQ, I suppose I should phrase it this way: can anybody name a logical reason for daylight savings time that applies in the world today?
Well, you obviously need to reset your watch.
Heh.
A conversion to a different system of time measurement would probably play out the same way that metrification did back in the 1970s. The U.S. is offically metric, but most people get along fine without using metric measurement.
Im not gonna argue with the bannings, but isnt repeating the post in full context just as bad?
I would like to say that I didn’t intend my joke as being directed at George Bush personally - I was aiming my joke at the old Roman tradition of each Emperor naming a month after himself. I’d also like to say it wasn’t necessary to warn me twice or to tell me to quit doing something after I had already stopped. But I won’t mention any political figures in a humorous way in the future.
So I’m reading Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove. In it he has oddball moments with Will Shakespeare that seem non-germane to the plot.
And it got me thinking. Turtledove’s got a doctorate in history. He’s done that sort of hardcore research that provides verisimulitude to his books. Maybe some of those incidents he puts in (being jeered by the audience, performing plays by Dekker, etc) are real events mentioned in the historical record somewhere.
So what’s the deal? Do we have any anecdotal evidence of Shakespeare and Burbage and Kemp other than administrative records such as birth and death and marriage and such? Any contemporary accounts of his life from those who’d seen his plays on stage?
Dammit. Ignore that.