Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for March 12, 2022

I’m one hour late – it’s getting dark – I guess my clock is – Off The Mark – Burma Shave

…as spoken by Sean Connery.

Just slide by an event horizon and take a little off the top

Well we are shaving an hour off our day after all.

As if the sun didn’t have enough to worry about, what with it’s sunspots and all. Now it has to shave too, that’s the pits.

I so-o-o look forward to Daylight Saving Time every Spring! I often don’t get to sleep until about 3 a.m., then wake up late, so dark early mornings are fine with me, and tomorrow’s sunset won’t be until nearly 7 p.m.Spring is almost here! … my favorite time of year.

One of the candidates in our GOP primary had on his list of things to do that he would stop Texas from using Daylight Savings Time.

Those who have a nightlight shaving time are so much more likely to end up with cuts and nicks.

Tonight’s the Night….

“Be nice and clean, shave every day and you always look keen…”

The Sun has a tongue? I hate when my tongue gets burned from the food being too hot. Must be a real problem for Mr. Sol

Allegedly a Native American expression: “Only a white man can believe that you can cut off one end of a blanket and sew it on the other end and get a bigger blanket.”

Change “white man” to politician and it still works.

They need to leave it on Daylight Savings Time year-round.

On workdays, I like to go for an 80 to 90 minute walk before work, I won’t feel like it afterward. Next week that will mean walking mostly in the dark again, for a while.

Not a fan of daylight saving time, but I guess it’s not going away.

He’s shaving his rays?

So that’s where solar flares come from.

It’s all about the economy. People don’t shop early in the morning, but they do shop more if it is still ‘daytime’ after work. Regardless of how many doctors and scientists, how many studies have been done, how many statistics [increases in car accidents, heart attacks, etc. following a time change] show that changing back and forth is not a good idea, arguments that it is ‘good for the economy’ always wins. Profit trumps people, again.

Shaving underarms? Clearly then the Sun is feminine.

I hate winter and feeling like a mushroom in the basement! Dark when we get up, dark going to bed! Ugh

Sean Connery: That’sh not what I shaid.

Have to remember to shift the sundial.

I live in Saskatchewan where it never changes. I’ve also lived in the sub-arctic where the daylight hour changes can be abrupt. Spend 10 years of no sun in the winter and all day daylight and then get back to me about how changing the clocks is a problem.

Why men in Arizona and Hawaii have beards.

Nationally, we are on Daylight time from March through November. We are only on “Standard Time” for about 4 months of the year. How is that “Standard”? Get rid of one or the other. I don’t care. Quit fucking with my sleep cycle, please!