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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/27/07 15:07
gosha bine wrote:
> On 27.06.2007 15:33 Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> bill wrote:
>>> Robert Newson wrote:
>>>> David T. Ashley wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Daylight saving (though how calling one time another saves daylight
>>>> - there will be exactly the same amount of daylight in the day
>>>> regardless of what you call the hours - I'm still trying to work out)
>>> ...
>>>
>>> When a sample of Iowa farmers were asked about the effect of
>>> increasing the amount of daylight savings time this year, a fair
>>> number said that it would make the summer hotter because there would
>>> be more sunlight to warm the earth. They were evenly divided if this
>>> was a good thing or not.
>>>
>>> bill
>>
>> Another urban legend.
>>
>
> That was an example of so-called "joke", Jerry. ;))
>
>
Sorry, but that can be pretty sensitive to those of us who grew up in
Iowa - and have had people believe it as a fact, not a joke.
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