Posted on 04/29/2005 8:17:19 AM PDT by 4thygipper
"What in hayseed tarnations is a HOOSIER???????........."
Hoosier: A citizen resident of the state of Indiana.
What does Hoosier mean? ...We're still working on that. I'll get back to you.
Likewise the Louisville 'burbs. [shrug]
I grew up in the Chicago 'burbs 'round Chicago, with friends, relatives and otherwise elsewhere in the state. You just dealt with it. It was no real sweat.
Who's your daddy?.........
Sign them up for a Profiles in Courage award.
Didn't Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld refuse to go on Daylight Savings Time?
What's a Hoosier? - Courtesy IU Alumni Association
"In the beginning was the word," begins Howard H. Peckham's Indiana: A Bicentennial History. "And the word was Hoosier."As Peckham states -- and most Hoosier historians seem to agree -- the historical explanations are "more ingenious than real."
Still, the many theories are fascinating in their diversity. Take the one that has a contractor in 1825 named either Samuel Hoosier or Hoosher. His workers, who helped build a canal on the Ohio River, were predominantly from Indiana. They were called "Hoo sier's men" or "Hoosiers."
A more colorful tale has the word deriving from the phrase fearful early settlers called out when startled by a knock on their cabin door: "Who's here? -- a call that over time degenerated into Hoosier.
While you're at it, please figure out what a Hoya is also.
This hoosier thinks changing time sucks. I will never vote for Mitch Daniels again. And I own my own business. So don't give me that line about business benifits.
I like DST *`cause the Dims were agin it* . . but I don't understand the politics here, Farm Bureau was also against it.
Anywho, I'm puttin my extra hours in an IRA. How bout you?
Fellow Hoosier
I heard the "Who's there?" explanation from another of your fellow Hoosiers, who said that it was from the early FRENCH trappers and settlers who were afraid of British troops in the area. They tried to pronounce, "Who's there?" in the hopes that they would be left alone, but since they could not pronounce "there" without the "zh" French sound, the British referred to them as Hoosiers........
(benefits) you dummy.
Federal law says that each state must decide as a whole, not as individual regions. It does, however, allow states that border other time zones to adopt that time zone over the state's standard.
Indiana was, indeed, a holdout.
My husband despises the switch to DST and back each year. He could never realize why it had to happen. But last year it hit me that if we didn't change, we'd have sunlight streaming into our windows at about 5 a.m. I'd rather have it at 10 p.m. than 5 a.m.
But we still don't know whether we will be in Eastern or Centeral Time. If we go to Central Time with Daylight Savings, we would have defeated the entire purpose. For those who don't know, Indiana effectively has THREE time zones: EST, EST with Daylight Savings, CST with Daylight Savings Time.
Kind of, but it is possible that Indiana will be put on Central Time.
Check out my tag line..........
"I like DST *`cause the Dims were agin it* . . but I don't understand the politics here, Farm Bureau was also against it.
Anywho, I'm puttin my extra hours in an IRA. How bout you?
Fellow Hoosier"
I have decided that with the extra light in the morning, I intend to mow my lawn before I head off to work.
But the IRA idea sounds swell too.
Check out my tag line..........
Ditto you tag line for me. Hail Hail to Old Purue, all hail to gold and the black.....
Well, I guess if you need a postmark at a certain time, you're in business.
If you think about it from a School standpoint it would be better to be on Central Time. During the Winter months when we get bad weather classes would start an hour later and then be less likely to be delayed or closed with sundrise an hour earlier.
Just a thought since my schoold sidttrict is going and extra 7 days this years due to weather related closings...... It really disrupted our summer plans.
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