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I have moved from cautiously optimistic...
To cautiously confident.
GO SOX! REVERSE THE CURSE! Dave |
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:33:43 -0400, Dave Stallard
wrote: To cautiously confident. GO SOX! REVERSE THE CURSE! I'm trying not to let the bench upgrades they've made this summer make me overconfident, but I'm having a hard time; I'm expecting to see defensive history made this year. GO PISTONS!!! BACK TO BACK!!! bw |
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bdubya wrote:
wrote: To cautiously confident. GO SOX! REVERSE THE CURSE! I'm trying not to let the bench upgrades they've made this summer make me overconfident, but I'm having a hard time; I'm expecting to see defensive history made this year. GO PISTONS!!! BACK TO BACK!!! For my mommy -- GO BUMS! WE'LL GET 'EM NEXT YEAR!! -- Cheers, Bev ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Screw the end users. If they want good software, let them write it themselves." -- Anon. |
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"Dave Stallard" wrote in message ... To cautiously confident. GO SOX! REVERSE THE CURSE! You don't understand The Curse. The worst possible outcome of this year would be to come from down three games to win, then get ahead three games and lose. I hope on Curt Gowdy's cowboy hat that I'm wrong. |
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GO PISTONS!!! BACK TO BACK!!!
?? what sport? Oh wait, I vaguely remember the Fort Wayne Pistons - basketball, right? Or was it softball? I do remember that at the time all the pistons for Detroit Iron were made in Fort Wayne - hence the nickname. And that also explains why parts of Indiana stay on Eastern (Michigan) time. Aint trivia fun? TCS (The Colorado Skier) Loveland is open! |
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GO SOX! REVERSE THE CURSE! You don't understand The Curse. The worst possible outcome of this year would be to come from down three games to win, then get ahead three games and lose. I hope on Curt Gowdy's cowboy hat that I'm wrong. I'm glad you didn't invoke Jack Buck's name. TCS (The Colorado Skier) Loveland is open! |
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TCS wrote:
GO PISTONS!!! BACK TO BACK!!! ?? what sport? Oh wait, I vaguely remember the Fort Wayne Pistons - basketball, right? Or was it softball? I do remember that at the time all the pistons for Detroit Iron were made in Fort Wayne - hence the nickname. And that also explains why parts of Indiana stay on Eastern (Michigan) time. uh...not quite. Most of Indiana is in the Eastern time zone. It's mostly just a longitude thing - proximity to Cincinatti and Louisville probably play a bigger part than proximity to Detroit. The four counties in the Northwestern corner of the state are in the Central Time Zone due to their proximity to Chicago. The southeast corner is Central time too. The confusing thing is that the Hoosiers havent't been clued in to the concept of Daylight Savings Time and stay on standard time all year round. Which makes it hard to figure out what time it is in Indiana. Just as well, since there aren't any [ob]ski slopes there worth bothering with. Aint trivia fun? It's more fun if you get it right. -- // Walt // // There is no Volkl Conspiracy |
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Richard Henry wrote:
You don't understand The Curse. The worst possible outcome of this year would be to come from down three games to win, then get ahead three games and lose. I hope on Curt Gowdy's cowboy hat that I'm wrong. You were. The Impossible Dream has been redeemed. WE WON! Dave |
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uh...not quite. Most of Indiana is in the Eastern time zone. It's
mostly just a longitude thing - proximity to Cincinatti and Louisville probably play a bigger part than proximity to Detroit. The four counties in the Northwestern corner of the state are in the Central Time Zone due to their proximity to Chicago. The southeast corner is Central time too. Aint trivia fun? It's more fun if you get it right. I'll stick with my answer. Your logic makes sense, but the original reason Fort Wayne stayed on Eastern time was to make it easier to deal with Detroit automakers. That was some time ago. Things change. (You're young, I'm old.) TCS (The Colorado Skier) Loveland is open! |
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TCS wrote:
I'll stick with my answer. Your logic makes sense, but the original reason Fort Wayne stayed on Eastern time was to make it easier to deal with Detroit automakers. That was some time ago. Things change. (You're young, I'm old.) Thanks. I've reached the age where being called "young" is a compliment. So thank you. I hope to be able to return the favor sometime. You're probably right that commerce with Detroit was a factor in setting Fort Wayne's time zone, but the answer isn't as pat as you portray it. For one, it doesn't explain why the other 90% of Indiana is also on Eastern Time. Time zones were first standardized in the mid 1880's - prior to that each town set their clocks so that 12 noon occurred when the sun was directly overhead. The main impetus was the railroads, who were having a devil of a time making timetables with every single stop being in a different time zone. Thus the idea of "standard" time zones: divide the globe up into twenty-four 15 degree slices, each of which would be offset by exactly one hour. Local geography created variations from the strict longitudinal slicing, but almost all cities in the US adopted "standard" time zones by 1890. Detroit was a conspicuous exception, wavering between Central Time, Eastern Time, and local "sun" time until about 1915. I'm not sure what Fort Wayne or the rest of Indiana were doing during that time. Time zone boundaries tended to push west as communities realized that you could add an hour of daylight in the evening by simply adopting the time zone to the east. By geometry, if you sliced up the country into 15 degree slices, the border between Central and Eastern time would be somewhere near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Of course, the desire to be on the same time zone as your trading partners to the east was a factor as well. These two factors caused all of Ohio plus almost all of Michigan and Indiana to wind up in the "wrong" time zone. In the summer, it's stays light here until after 10pm, and this morning it was still dark at 8am. Weird, but I'm used to it. Anyway, if Indiana chose their time zone to aid commerce, they've really screwed the pooch by refusing to adopt Daylight Savings time. I can't tell you how many scheduled conference calls to Indiana have been messed up by people not being able to calculate the time offset. And to make matters even more complicated, the four Indiana counties that are in Central time *do* switch to Central daylight time in the summer. -- //-Walt // // Proud Member of the Reality-Based Community |
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