Posted on 08/16/2017 4:58:59 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
DALLAS, TX — Untold millions are poised for the Aug. 21 eclipse of the sun on Aug. 21 (sorry, Texas, it'll only be partial from our horizon), but the date — when many kids gear up for the first day of school — is inconvient for one mom.
"Most kids go back to school that day," the mom wrote the Perot Museum in Dallas that's hosting a solar eclipse party. "Can it be done on the weekend?"
The answer is no. The date of the solar eclipse cannot be postponed for another day.
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Surprised it was Dallas and not Austin!
I know hundreds of home schoolers. None of them are that stupid
Obama would have but Trump just refuses to order the sun and the moon to stop. Hillary would just stop the clock with her glare so it will still be Sunday when the eclipse happens.
No dear, but just for you we will schedule it at night.
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Yes, if they scheduled the eclipse at night, we wouldn’t need special glasses nor have to worry about folks injuring their eyes from trying to look at it without proper protection.
I can’t believe how dumb the people in charge of this eclipse are!
“...inconvient...”
Obviously a public school idiot..... should send her to Guam, maybe it’ll tip over!
“When I first started work, I got a memo from a manager asking if May 21 could be rescheduled...”
That sounds like just sloppy communication to me. I would guess that there was something scheduled for May 21 and he meant to ask if the event could be rescheduled but was too lazy to say what he meant and just asked if May 21 could be rescheduled. If that does not explain it then the manager was a real idiot but I see more and more every day of people who are too lazy to express themselves clearly and their “go to” response if called on it is to say, “Don’t be silly, you know what I mean.” My usual response is to ask, “How can I be sure what you mean when you don’t even seem to know yourself?”
Yep. About a third and rising fast.
Khrushchev told us they would get us from with in and he has right.
Very.
In the 70s my state adopted daylight savings time for the first time. I had just started dating a really nice girl who I knew wasn’t extra smart (she had other attributes).
We were driving somewhere and I was chattering on about how excited I was about DST starting the next weekend for the extra hour of daylight in the evening. She said she didn’t fully understand how it worked.
I explained it, but she got real quiet. I took my eyes off the road for a quick glance and she had a puzzled look on her face. Just then she said, haltingly, “Then they don’t really do anything to the sun then?”
I barely averted driving into the ditch.
Me too! Alternatively, I am reminded of Hank Johnson, wanting to know whether the extra military stationed at Guam might cause the tiny island to capsize. I still have great respect for the officer who he was questioning answered him saying, “We don’t anticipate that happening, Sir!” I could never have remained that composed.
Oh well then, we’ve had our fun...she was not asking that they reschedule the eclipse, just the party! (Which would then have to be renamed the pre-eclipse or post-eclipse party!) Still, its humerous.
I always hated it when the 4th of July fell on a Wednesday. Impossible to schedule a long weekend around that.
Could they not have had a July 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 THEN the 4th. Then afterwards skip right to July 7? That way it landed on Friday.
Maybe she’s really a dim bulb.. or it’s slightly possible she just had a “mom brain” moment preserved for all to see.
Not like cloud cover at all. Solar eclipses take on a whole different effect. Otherwise why would wildlife react differently?? I watched one in my twin brother’s front yard using goggles my Dad used to watch the detonation of the world’s first thermonuclear device at Eniwetok. Operation Ivy. Ivy Mike to be exact. Task Group 132.4.
What’s so funny about this?
This lady is a logical thinker.
Obviously, if humans can control the earth’s temperature we can control one little eclipse.
She’s since Americanized her name. She’s now G-String Nguyen.
And we wonder where snowflakes come from.
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