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Indiana will now observe Eastern Daylight Savings Time. - effective April 2, 2006.
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Posted on 04/29/2005 8:17:19 AM PDT by 4thygipper

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Indiana to observe daylight-saving time - effective April 2, 2006.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: daylightsavings; dst; notbreaking; sowhat
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To: Red Badger

"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.


21 posted on 04/29/2005 8:38:01 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Dems: "It can't be done" Reps. "Move, we'll find a way or make a way. It has to be done!")
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To: Tenacious 1
This is exactly correct. Suburb counties around Cinci honored the time change. Suburbs around Chi-town honored their time change.

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.

22 posted on 04/29/2005 8:38:26 AM PDT by mhking ("Today, we're gonna do things the RIGHT way...")
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To: Tenacious 1
A friend of mine, from Indiana, once told me it was short for:

Who's your daddy?.........

23 posted on 04/29/2005 8:39:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make liberal.....................)
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To: 4thygipper
House Speaker Brian Bosma called the 51-46 decision one of the most "heroic" votes in his 20 years in the General Assembly.

Sign them up for a Profiles in Courage award.

24 posted on 04/29/2005 8:40:40 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Blackwell for Governor 2006: hated by the 'Rats, feared by the RINOs.)
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To: jwalburg

Didn't Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld refuse to go on Daylight Savings Time?


25 posted on 04/29/2005 8:43:54 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life,...")
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To: Red Badger
What in hayseed tarnations is a HOOSIER???????.........

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.


And though I'm a Boilermaker (at least I was for two years, anyway), I'm still a Hoosier by birth, as are all of us born in Indiana.
26 posted on 04/29/2005 8:44:24 AM PDT by mhking ("Today, we're gonna do things the RIGHT way...")
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To: Tenacious 1
What does Hoosier mean? ...We're still working on that. I'll get back to you.

While you're at it, please figure out what a Hoya is also.

27 posted on 04/29/2005 8:45:46 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life,...")
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To: 4thygipper

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.


28 posted on 04/29/2005 8:48:33 AM PDT by JRochelle
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To: Tenacious 1

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


29 posted on 04/29/2005 8:49:17 AM PDT by tumblindice (Famous last words of a fool: I won't miss you, I don't love you.)
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To: mhking

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........


30 posted on 04/29/2005 8:50:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make liberal.....................)
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To: JRochelle

(benefits) you dummy.


31 posted on 04/29/2005 8:50:34 AM PDT by JRochelle
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To: discostu

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.


32 posted on 04/29/2005 8:53:11 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: discostu

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.


33 posted on 04/29/2005 8:55:09 AM PDT by jwalburg (If I have not seen as far as others, it is because of the giants standing on my shoulders.)
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To: 4thygipper

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.


34 posted on 04/29/2005 8:55:46 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Polyxene
This will make a lot of people happy here in the Cincinnati area. Many live in Indiana but work in Ohio.

Kind of, but it is possible that Indiana will be put on Central Time.

35 posted on 04/29/2005 8:56:58 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: mhking

Check out my tag line..........


36 posted on 04/29/2005 8:58:06 AM PDT by boilerfan (Hoosier born and Boilermaker educated!)
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To: tumblindice

"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.


37 posted on 04/29/2005 8:59:02 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Dems: "It can't be done" Reps. "Move, we'll find a way or make a way. It has to be done!")
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To: boilerfan

Check out my tag line..........

Ditto you tag line for me. Hail Hail to Old Purue, all hail to gold and the black.....


38 posted on 04/29/2005 9:00:23 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Dems: "It can't be done" Reps. "Move, we'll find a way or make a way. It has to be done!")
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To: Always Right

Well, I guess if you need a postmark at a certain time, you're in business.


39 posted on 04/29/2005 9:00:34 AM PDT by jwalburg (If I have not seen as far as others, it is because of the giants standing on my shoulders.)
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To: Always Right

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.


40 posted on 04/29/2005 9:02:28 AM PDT by boilerfan (Hoosier born and Boilermaker educated!)
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