During the OPEC oil embargo, it was decided to stay on daylight time year around to save electricity. Parents were upset because their kids were going to school in the dark. If we stayed on standard time in the summer, people would be getting up in broad daylight. The farther north you are the more sense the time switch makes. Hawaii doesn’t have daylight time because it is too far south; Arizona doesn’t have it because they think it is a communist plot.
I am tired of male cartoonists making saps out of male characters. I wonder, are all professional plumbers in cartoons just as incompetent with their own home plumbing? In the cartoon reality, he would have to call in another professional plumber who just made a mess of his home plumbing ad infinitum until the loop ends up with a female plumber who fixes all the plumbing in all the houses of all the other plumbers.
That’s why the old man in the pub in the book 1984 was so upset about not being able to get a pint. He was adamant about getting a pint but the bar tender said he had half liters and liters, he didn’t know what a pint was. 16 ounces is very close to a half liter, so American readers didn’t know what the problem was. The old man insisted that a half liter wasn’t enough and a liter was too much.
Another galaxy? That is stupid, the large Magellanic cloud is 160,000 lightyears away, and that’s the closest one. Why not just tow it to another solar system? Apparently, the authors think the sun and the 9 planets (yes I am including Pluto) is a galaxy.
If the count is 3-0 and the pitcher has any control left, the next pitch will be right down the middle, swing. Usually what happens is the manager gives the hitter a red light, the next pitch is right down the middle, strike one 3-1. The hitter is poed and swings at anything the next pitch, voila, full count.
Actually, proper radio procedure is “Wallace this is Spud”.