Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 06, 2011

Let’s see. Is it “Fall forward, spring back.” Or is it “Spring forward, fall back”?

just like the sun rises in the east and sets in the north

Yay for the extra hour of sleep!

Oh great. I’ve got five wrist watches, four VCRs, three TVs, two DVD recorders and a coffe pot timer to reset in the morning. There goes that extra hour of sleep.

“Spring forward, lest you Fall behind.” Doesn’t work for Bria9in, however, where Fall is called Autumn…..

It’s actually nice to have a break from the SERIOUS storyline we are in the middle of.

In this strip the male characters are always emotionally damaged in some way such as Brad’s immaturity, TJ’s deviousnesss, Gunther’s nerdiness, Aaron Hill’s narcissism, and Mr. Degroot’s constant state of confusion. Only the foreign exchange students that Luann encounters seem to have any self worth.On the other hand the female characters are usually stronger and in control such as Delta, Bernice, Mrs. Degroot, Toni, and even Tiffany.The males in this strip just can’t figure out the opposite sex. It’s like there is a few pieces missing in a beautiful puzzle or a book without an ending.

EVIL FILLERS!

There you go! Confuse us if you can!

That’s cold, Nancy. :D.

Oakridge and MojitoB — I’ve noticed that if I wait long enough, my clocks and watches will set themselves to the right time.

Yeah, about 5 months.

A lot of things are probably not the same in Bria9in, it obviously being some alien planet.

And Mighty Mouse, of course the leaves don’t “drop”.

Everything in Australia falls up, cos it’s all upside down and backwards there.

Tick tock .. the beds do rock .You got an extra hour before you smack your clock …

One of TWO DAYS OF THE YEAR it’s nice to live in AZ.

…..and when she wakes up the next day, Nancy will be DELIGHTED to find that ‘precious’ son has apparently broken up with the DESPISED Toni Daytona!!!!(You newcomers read the archives)

Happy Un-Daylight Savings Time, Folks!!!

Without glasses he looks a little like Brad.

It’s spring forward, fall back, BikeNBoatN.

Don’t forget the clocks in the cars.

I wish we could skip the ‘spring forward’ part and just turn the clock back an hour every November.

Just like a woman to jerk a man’s chain for no good reason.

Graveyard shift, huh? My sympathies.

But in the fall all you have to do is unplug it for an hour and you’re gold.

0920EST. computer says 1420. nothing changes here. i get up whenever i want. i didn’t change the clock to EDT so i didn’t have to change it back. the cat still gets me up for breakfast at the same time every day (“hungry, now!” time.), so that’s another strike. the coffee perks when i start it up, the sun is up and the day starts just fine without clocks. you’re not “saving” anything, much less daylight. evangelicals are into “saving”, maybe you could get help from there. XD

It sort of made sense starting DST in April, ending early in October, but starting it in March, a week before the Vernal Equinox, when there’s still an unequal amount of daylight/night, serves no useful purpose whatsoever. Ditto for ending it a month and a half after the Autumnal Equinox.

Is there some sort of lobbying group that’s paying off people in DeeCee?

Can you tell us what tomorrow’s strip is?

I am glad that we in Phoenix don’t do DST. Of course, that could mess up catching on various national shows- but now I do radio only while driving and TiVo gets my dozens of TV favs and saves for when I chose to watch.

They’ll all look like Mr. Fogarty in the end.

I’m in Arizona. No daylight savings time, so only our time in relation to the rest of the country changes. We do that to confuse everyone.

I live in Arizona, we don’t practice that Pagan ritual.

All I know is that which my father taught me:Spring is sprung, Fall is fellWinter’s come, and it’s colder than (it was last year).

When I grew up in Texas I remember the elementary textbooks talking about the robins flying away in the fall. NO, the robins ARRIVE in the fall!

This brings to mind a little rhyme,From where I do not know.Nor do I care,so I’ll just share.

“Spring has sprungthe grass is rizei wonder where the flowers is.the boid is on the wing,but that’s obsoid,everyone knowsthe Wing is on the boid.”

by unknown. (thank goodness)

From a FB quote: “When told the reason for daylight savings time, the old Indian Chief said, ‘Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.’”

Have to agree – it just does not make sense.

We don’t have Daylight Savings Time here. It seems a waste of energy to me.

I just love Mrs. DeGroot! Her and Crystal. And again, I note the resemblance between the DeGroots and Crystal and Knute.

Gee, why don’t they just move the time up one half hour and leave it the h e double hockey sticks alone!

“A funny bit of business here between a long married couple and some people here have to try and sour it.”

Who’s “souring” it? And how – by discussing DST? Or even how Greg depects men vs women? That last isn’t a new development on Greg’s part – Frank is often the butt of Nancy’s “zinger” sense of humor, but he’s even-keeled and good natured about it and always springs back – often to zing her back when she least expects it.

Dave? Dave? Are you there?

Oh nooooo….there’s just a puddle of ink and a grease-spotted ransom note from Ann Eiffel!

My husband was a mathematician and he could never figure it out. He was confused by the words “forward” and “back,” as when you move an appointment date forward, that means the appointment occurs on an earlier calendar date, and when you move it back, it occurs later. These are opposite directions from what we do with a clock. But in the spring, if you forget to set your clock forward, you will be late, and if you forget that an appointment has been moved forward, you will miss the appointment. With a PhD, I thought my husband could figure it out from there, but I always ended up being the one to reset every thing. His grandmother kept one clock in the house set at Standard Time, which she called “God’s Time.”

Just move to AZ. No DST there….ever.

I always heard that farmers were against it. Something about messing with livestock feeding times.

FYI: It’s Daylight “Saving” Time, not “Savings”. You are “saving” daylight (supposedly). Just a small nit pic, I’m done now. good night.

Very true comments by most (and I also loved Nancy’s kidding of Frank), When I was working full time a decade or so ago I was happy that we don’t change here in AZ and hated that we did back in IL – I used to have cheap digital watches of many different colors and patterns and it could occupy much more than an hour with VCRs, ovens and clocks around the house. Now it’s just trying to remember and remind my kids in IL, CO and TX what time difference we currently have.

The pain about going back and forth from/to Daylight Saving is that each timepiece has to be handled a different way. And doing something only twice a year is not often enough to remember how!

Now the authoritative version is:

SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK!!

The days in winter are too short for us to have much ‘savings’. I hear that Saskatchewan doesn’t observe it, good for them!

Gotta love Arizona with NO DST.

Daylight Savings Time is a nuisance, with little real tangible evidence of any real benefit (and the generic “for the children” hot button doesn’t wash in this case). DST needs to go.

I do read them, but due to the fact that I asked you to explain how you thought they “soured” the strip, obviously I have a different take on them than you do.

If you can’t give a better explanation for your comment than that, that sort of says it all.

Chicken 33, I didn’t realize how much Dad & Brad look alike until Dad took off his glasses.