# Ed Zotti's announcement re Board down all night Tues **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 1, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282 "2017-09-01T23:47:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/1 "2017-09-01T23:47:21Z")
“SDMB offline Tues 10PM-Wed 4AM” Now’s the time to start making plans for how to fill those SIX hours! :eek: How do you plan to spend them? Finishing your college degree? Getting acquainted with your children (although they’ll be asleep most of the time). Learning a foreign language? Going to a 24-hour gym and developing a muscle or two? Wake up the dog and take him for a walk to make up for those times you brushed him away while you were finishing up an urgent post? Start your Christmas shopping? The possibilities are endless. If all Doper pledged to do something worthwhile during those offline hours, hell, we could pump up the GDP, end crime (or increase it… :dubious:), cure some important but not too difficult medical problem (hangnails, maybe?)-- we could spend those six hours \*\*making America great again! \*\* How will you spend this gift of time? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/2 "2017-09-01T23:52:42Z")
Have a cocktail or four. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/3 "2017-09-01T23:54:13Z")
Read email without fear of “reports” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/4 "2017-09-01T23:56:56Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Read email without fear of “reports” Sorry. _hangs head_ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/5 "2017-09-01T23:58:27Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Read email without fear of “reports” I could still send you updates on my evening. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/6 "2017-09-01T23:58:50Z")
Well, if I ever could sleep for six straight hours I might try that. Never happen though. (And if I did I’d probably wet the bed…) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/7 "2017-09-02T00:02:42Z")
I’ll probably curl up in a dark closet and cry into my booze. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/8 "2017-09-02T00:10:08Z")
Rock back and forth, scratching the hair out of my head, and praying to the hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/9 "2017-09-02T00:27:32Z")
He didn’t mention a timezone. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/10 "2017-09-02T00:48:12Z")
Reminisce with my husband about the time the place where he works announced that one of its numerous buildings would not have vending machine service for **up to an hour**. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/11 "2017-09-02T00:53:41Z")
Checking NOAA for the weather in Georgia and possibly having sex. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/12 "2017-09-02T01:19:26Z")
What time zone is that for? Chicago? That’s an entire afternoon for me, thru to 7pm. Super. Might do actual work. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/13 "2017-09-02T01:27:11Z")
Sleep. That’s a bit past my planned bedtime. But I’m near Chicago. With an unreliable internet connection. And used to going to Plan B. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/14 "2017-09-02T01:36:22Z")
Laying on the F5 like a rat in a Skinner box. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/15 "2017-09-02T02:13:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Sorry. _hangs head_ > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I could still send you updates on my evening. So nice of you both to care. \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/16 "2017-09-02T02:49:40Z")
Visit Paris and Rome. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/17 "2017-09-02T06:21:59Z")
Depending on Ed’s time zone, it looks like it will be 10-am to 4pm Wednesday for me. There’s never much point lugging on during those hours anyway. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/18 "2017-09-02T11:33:02Z")
I plan to make America great again. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/19 "2017-09-02T12:14:36Z")
Delete Tapatalk from my phone. (Ed says it’s an upgrade for mobile devices, so I’m hoping I can finally ditch that piece of crap. Especially now that they’ve started showing ads. That’s why I have a paid membership, so I don’t have to look at those!) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282/20 "2017-09-02T12:17:47Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I plan to make America great again. And with the other 5 hours? 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-zottis-announcement-re-board-down-all-night-tues/795282.md?page=2)