The "real" cause of global warming

[Gary]

[daworm]

Warning? Or Warming? You decide!

[Gary]

Even leaving aside the entire stupidity of believing that DST "adds" an extra hour of daylight, the letter writer isn't even aware thatr the bill that extended DST, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, came out of a Republican Congress, and was signed into law by a Republican President.

Then again, it did come from Arkansas...

[Felix]

Bwahahaha...That EVIL DST.

That's almost as good as a question on the need for the John Ross Bridge, which can open to allow tall boats through.

The person raising the question (hint, she did not have black or brown hair) asked, "Why didn't they just dredge the channel a little deeper?"

Edited to say: I prefer to believe the writer was being ironic.

[legaltender]

I prefer to believe the writer was being ironic.

It's been suggested elsewhere this was probably perpetrated by someone who didn't have happy legal dealings with Connie M. Meskimen, the Little Rock bankruptcy attorney.


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[voxpopuli]

Are you sure June Griffin didn't write that letter?

[halk3]

I don't have a copy of it but a similar letter was published by the Times Free-Press just after DST started this year. There were several replies to the letter pointing out the absurdity of the comments.
Makes me wonder if the letter was written tounge in cheek or if the person actually believes it

[Deleted]

Upon close examination of the last two lines of the newspaper article, I see that Miss Connie has Hot Springs.



So all is forgiven.

[Jay]

That is waaaay too funny. Somehow the DST magically added more sun time in the day....which magically made global warming.... Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb...

[legaltender]

"Connie M. Meskimen" is a *male* attorney whose other letters to the Democrat-Gazette editor typically are sarcastic and satirical. He's into needling games and inside jokes:

Mountain View If a hoax, it’s a beaut.

I finally get it. I feel so stupid. Absolutely everyone must have known but me.

While reading Philip Martin’s column in which he used 12 or 13 hyphens and as many column inches to say that he reads Playboy only for the articles, and only then if the articles are about the erudite, it suddenly came to me: Martin is not a real person. He is a creation of Michael Storey, just like the columns written by the long dead Otus the Head Cat.

I know, the clues should have been obvious: the run-on hyphenated sentences; the William F. Buckley-size words; the endless prattle about his disdain for conspicuous consumption interspersed with his reports to the readers of his most recent experience with old scotch and fine dining in Paris. The self-indulgent "I know" columns by themselves should have been a dead giveaway. Then it came to me. No newspaper would print the likes of those columns unless they were satirical. So my congratulations to Storey on a hoax well executed. I can stand to read the columns now that I know they aren’t serious. I do wish, however, that he would spend a little less time on the Head Cat column and try to make Phil as interesting as Otus. To borrow a phrase from the fictitious Martin, I know Phil Martin. I don’t know what he wants. CONNIE M. MESKIMEN (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, December 22, 2003)

Connie, in short, is conning us on DST.

[Homebrew Dave]

I personally think we need to come up with a new name for Standard Time. Because of the policy change which altered the dates which we change back and forth between DST and Standard Time, we now have DST for 7 months out of the year (or 58% of the year) and Standard Time for only 5 months (or 42%) of the year. This means that DST is the de facto standard for time and Standard Time is standard in name only. Heaven forbid that our children should grow up thinking that a minority position should be used as a benchmark for normalcy!

Oh...wait....nevermind. I forgot what country I was in for a second.

Dave

[Jay]

Yah, they should just switch their names....make life easy

[Deleted]

> "Why didn't they just dredge the channel a little deeper?"

What a cool idea! That way, I wouldn't have to have a boat to go water skiing.



Nah. Lift ticket prices would probably be exorbitant.

[Gary]

A little bit of followup to the letter, from our friends at Snopes.Com: www.snopes.com/humor/letters/daylight.asp

Evidently Mr. Meskimen has been receiving a number of direct inquiries about his bit of satire, as the voicemail at his office phone presents callers with the following message: "If you are calling about the Daylight Savings Time letter and wish to explain global warming or daylight savings time to me, I would urge you to get a sense of humor and/or a life, in that order. Unless, of course, you want to pay me for an interview; if so, please leave your telephone number and I will expediently return your call."

[Longshot! [ Saint ]]

Ah...All is NOT lost, after all.

[trc0505]

Just like liberals to keep american people in the dark - so to speak.