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: goodbye daylight saving time :

November 5, 2017November 12, 2017 ~ the whirly girl ~ 9 Comments

Great, if we're turning back the clocks, then I’ll fall back, too. I’ll return to an old trick I haven’t used in a while: the use of clever and hilarious quotations from clever, hilarious people. They’re hugely entertaining and require no effort on my part. Frankly, copying and pasting is about all I can manage … Continue reading : goodbye daylight saving time :

: happy summer solstice :

June 21, 2014July 3, 2014 ~ the whirly girl ~ 8 Comments

What the heck are you doing in here? Go outside, enjoy the sunshine. Summer's here. It arrived this morning at 6:51 a.m., Eastern Daylight time, the longest day of the year for us poor schmoes in the Northern Hemisphere -- yeah, the frigid one. We'll have 16 hours and 17 minutes of sweet, sweet daylight … Continue reading : happy summer solstice :

: welcome to the cruelest month :

January 1, 2014January 1, 2014 ~ the whirly girl ~ 18 Comments

T.S. Eliot was wrong; he said April was the cruelest¹. Well, what does he know? He was a poet², for crying out loud, a notoriously flaky bunch, not a meteorologist. April is not now, nor has it ever been, the cruelest month. It’s not even in the top five. No matter what he said or … Continue reading : welcome to the cruelest month :

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I bought a new Hoover today,
Plugged it in in the usual way,
Switched it on — what a din;
It sucked everything in,
Now I’m homeless with no place to stay.

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We’re all hurtling through space at 1,040 mph with the earth’s rotation. I’m the one in the backseat with my head out the window. May I borrow a comb?

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