"MarkA" <toor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.03.11.13.11.47.951798@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I'm with you, bro. DST may have been useful when the only timepieces
> people were likely to own were a pocketwatch and perhaps a mantle clock.
> Now that *everything* in my home has a clock, it can take days to find
and
> change them all.
don't. they'll catch up in 6 months
>
> What tickles me is how the Idiot-in-Chief extended DST to "save energy."
> With oil prices at record highs, along with oil company profits, he is
> going to ease our pain by adding a few weeks of DST.
Someone -- maybe Daily Show material maybe Bill Maher - that he couldn't
possibly know about oil prices because he doesn't own a car because he is
chauffered about
>
> <snip>
>
>> P.s.....
>>
>> Anybody in any other countries/Nations, reading this, do
>> you have to deal with the bull**** of.....DST.....?
>>
>> How about you Seon, in Australia......?
>
> I am impressed that all of China is all one time zone. It would cover 4
> or 5 hours if they used them.
There was a day when the USSR was. It'd be like 2 am and still light out.
mk5000
<jiminy crickets>
----- Original Message -----
From: "marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Newsgroups: rec.games.rogue,alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:48 PM
Subject: sleepers pupil
>I was really impressed by the organization of Disney.
>
> Nothing goes awry because everything is executed like clockwork.
>
> Everyone knows their parts, everyone knows the timing issues.
>
> They manage huge amounts of people, including tired parents and cranky
> babies.
>
> You can rent a motorized wheelchair for ailing grandparents. It's a lot
> of
> walking so at some point, I wanted a wheelchair.
>
> You can rent a stroller for the kids or bring your own.
> Again, this is advisable because there is so much ground to cover, the
> kids
> get tired quickly.
>
> Especially in the heat.
>
> The entrance point is very security conscious. They take several steps
to
> make sure no one and nothing scary gets in.
>
> There are multiple stroller parking sites. The parents leave their
> strollers with lots of belongings in them while they go in to the rides.
> There are so many Disney employees watching over the stroller parking
that
> no one feels uncomfortable doing so. It's just amazing the scale of
this
>
> Florida is known to be swamp land and to have lots of alligators.
>
> THere are none at Disney except for animatronic ones. Although there
are
> some live ones at the Safari ride at the Animal Kingdom, one of the
Disney
> Parks.
>
> And other large and menacing animals such as tigers and lions, all of
> which
> we saw that day
>
> But it wasn't scary
>
> Don't know how they do all this though without inspiring fear
>
> mk5000
>
> Heather: [at the swamp] Are there any alligators in there?
> Bobby Kent: Why don't you go skinny dipping and find out? --
>
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