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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time wackiness
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:03:35 -0400
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On 3/12/24 5:01 PM, Your Name wrote:
> On 2024-03-12 20:22:11 +0000, moviePig said:
>> On 3/12/2024 3:23 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>> On 2024-03-12 07:37:40 +0000, FPP said:
>>>> On 3/11/24 4:36 PM, super70s wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Savings time has been around for as long as I remember and I'm old. 
>>>>> They did lengthen it several years ago and now you have kids trick 
>>>>> or treating while the sun is still up.
>>>>
>>>> It's safer that way...
>>>
>>> Even safer to ban silly Halloween altogether.
>>>
>>> Parents spend 99% of the year telling their kids "Don't take candy 
>>> from strangers" ... then this one stupid "holiday" comes around and 
>>> those same parents are virtually pushing kids out the door saying "Go 
>>> beg for candy from strangers". Just yet another example of the 
>>> two-faced hypocritic stupidity of the human race.  :-\
>>
>> Halloween's about teaching kids to be extroverts, which many need.
> 
> Halloween, as with pretty much every other "holiday", is today simply 
> about retailers selling as much product as they can.  :-p

Nonsense.  It's also a great excuse to gorge yourself on chocolate 
without guilt.


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