Post by Ravenmaster on Apr 1, 2006 23:14:12 GMT -5
People say "Oh Spring Forward, Fall Back" and all this other nonesense but when you think about it, why is it called Daylight Savings? Well, here's how it goes.
I believe lil' Ben Franklin had the idea of Daylight Savings. But he forgot about Daylight Savings' greedy twin sister, Daylight Spendings.
Oh of course, they used to get along. Father Time MADE them get along. They would play stick ball and chase a hoop down a dirt road with a stick but one day BAM! Puberty hit these two like a rock. Daylight Savings and Daylight Spendings hit their teenage years and the world between them fell apart. Savings and Spendings soon were thrown into a prestigious college and Father Time wasn't paying for their CRAP anymore. Well, Savings spent his time wisely, saving every minute he could while his sister Spendings spent days in the same place when she was supposed to be someplace else like Clock and Sundial class or...whatever. Savings and Spendings soon became arch enemies and Savings kicked his sister out of the apartment they were sharing. Savings was soon nationally known. He was famous for his lightning personality and how he could make people around him smile at his warmth and kindness. Also he was rich. Like, Oprah rich. But his equally infamous sister was gaining a reputation as well, making all those around her shiver and get lost in her darkening shadows. One time this kid got lost in there and... well...never you mind that.
One day Savings and Spendings agreed to face each other, one on one for an epic battle. Savings came and plucked the sun from it's setting position in the sky and Spendings grabbed the moon from it's rising position.
They spent days fighting each other with the light and the darkness until Spendings finally fell and sent the moon up back into the sky where it belonged. Savings put the sun back up into the sky as well and then banished Daylight Spendings to their home back with Father Time. But Spendings wouldn't stand for it and instead lost herself in her own darkness which eventually became the phases of the moon.
From that day on Daylight Savings governed both the lightening periods and the darkening periods. In the spring he would be his self before his sister banished herself into a darkness that would never reach light. He'd be happy and social and even run marathons for Lung Cancer Research. But once October came he would become cold like his sister and lock himself into his own darkness until the next spring. Some say, in that time of darkness, that Savings longs for his sister's cold company so at least they could have something in common once again and be cold together.
And this, ladies and gentlemen is why we have only Daylight Savings for many a moon ago, we lost Spendings to her own darkness.
Well....I just made all that crap up. Fun! Read it! I dare you!
I believe lil' Ben Franklin had the idea of Daylight Savings. But he forgot about Daylight Savings' greedy twin sister, Daylight Spendings.
Oh of course, they used to get along. Father Time MADE them get along. They would play stick ball and chase a hoop down a dirt road with a stick but one day BAM! Puberty hit these two like a rock. Daylight Savings and Daylight Spendings hit their teenage years and the world between them fell apart. Savings and Spendings soon were thrown into a prestigious college and Father Time wasn't paying for their CRAP anymore. Well, Savings spent his time wisely, saving every minute he could while his sister Spendings spent days in the same place when she was supposed to be someplace else like Clock and Sundial class or...whatever. Savings and Spendings soon became arch enemies and Savings kicked his sister out of the apartment they were sharing. Savings was soon nationally known. He was famous for his lightning personality and how he could make people around him smile at his warmth and kindness. Also he was rich. Like, Oprah rich. But his equally infamous sister was gaining a reputation as well, making all those around her shiver and get lost in her darkening shadows. One time this kid got lost in there and... well...never you mind that.
One day Savings and Spendings agreed to face each other, one on one for an epic battle. Savings came and plucked the sun from it's setting position in the sky and Spendings grabbed the moon from it's rising position.
They spent days fighting each other with the light and the darkness until Spendings finally fell and sent the moon up back into the sky where it belonged. Savings put the sun back up into the sky as well and then banished Daylight Spendings to their home back with Father Time. But Spendings wouldn't stand for it and instead lost herself in her own darkness which eventually became the phases of the moon.
From that day on Daylight Savings governed both the lightening periods and the darkening periods. In the spring he would be his self before his sister banished herself into a darkness that would never reach light. He'd be happy and social and even run marathons for Lung Cancer Research. But once October came he would become cold like his sister and lock himself into his own darkness until the next spring. Some say, in that time of darkness, that Savings longs for his sister's cold company so at least they could have something in common once again and be cold together.
And this, ladies and gentlemen is why we have only Daylight Savings for many a moon ago, we lost Spendings to her own darkness.
Well....I just made all that crap up. Fun! Read it! I dare you!
