On Wed, 07 May 2008 11:55:11 -0400, "Charles Wm. Dimmick"
<cdimmick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Estron wrote:
>> When is "the dead of night"?
>> I vote for 3:00 to 4:30 am. By three, there are no commercial
>> establishments open except the ones that aren't going to close, if
you're
>> intentionally staying up all night, you feel weariness, and if you're
>> trying to go to sleep and you know it's after three, you feel defeated.
>> And 4:30 is when people who work the early ****ft are starting to wake
up
>> and get moving, but it's still well before any daytime commercial
activity
>> begins.
>"Dead" as in "deathly silent". So if you live where the bars close
>at midnight and all the cars have left the parking lot by 12:30 am
>and there are no more people or cars moving around outside, then
>it is "dead of night" until the time that people, cars, milkmen,
>and garbage collectors start moving around again.
As a footnote, "Dead of Night" is also a scary British film from 1945.
It has five unrelated stories of the supernatural by four different
directors. Very good and worth renting.
Les
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