As you get older time seems to fly by faster, hence the days go ‘whiz’?
Needed something to rhyme with “is”, and deadline time came before inspiration.
Days whiz by. It’s a fine and valid rhyme.
The exposition is a little off though. Neither Day and night being names, and eventually winter and summer evening out, really necessarily equate to time flies by quicky. And a “score and four” seems out of the blue. (What does 24 you have to do with anything?)
Still it’s an okay strip. The “whiz” is not a problem.
For years, I’ve used the phrase, “Time flies, whether you’re having fun or not.”
The lines “Light and dark add up the same/ a score and four it ever is” go together. 24 is for the length of the whole 24-hr day; night (darkness) and the other day (period of lightness) always add up to 24 hours whether the dark period be 18 hours and the light 6, or the other way round, or anything in between and, above the Arctic Circle, above.
I expect the “Whiz” sound and line refers to “The longer days, they will not last”.
Four A.M. is whiz time.
Time flies like an arrow
Fruit flies like a banana
“Time flies, if you own a really good stopwatch and have nothing better to do.”
“24 is for the length of the whole 24-hr day”
D’oh!
Somehow I was caught up in years. 24 years seems like a reasonable but arbitrary time unit to measure life phases.
Except on time change days, when you get three and a score or five and a score.
As always, I will grumble about the idea of summer starting on the Solstice. It makes no sense astronomically or meteorologically..
Summer starting on Mid-Summer’s Day? What’s illogical about that??
It does make sense meterologically. You know how when you preheat a stove it doesn’t get hot instantly? And it stays hot for a while after you turn it off? Seasonal lag causes a similar effect. The hottest quarter of the year tends to be mid-June through mid-September, not mid-May through mid-July. Around here we get the most snow and the biggest blizzards in February and March.
In Germany, the “meteorologic” seasons begin on the first of the month containing the respective solstice or equinox, thus roughly three weeks before the “astronomic” start date. This just simplifies the question of which month belongs to which season (May=Spring, June=Summer).
It does make sense meterologically. You know how when you preheat a stove it doesn’t get hot instantly? And it stays hot for a while after you turn it off? Seasonal lag causes a similar effect.
Correct, but it doesn’t match up. In temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, the peak high temps occur around the middle of July. The TV weather people even mention that the “meteorological” summer begins June 1.
As I said, no basis for the Solstice as the start of summer. The only reason it isn’t way off is the temperature lag.
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As you get older time seems to fly by faster, hence the days go ‘whiz’?
Needed something to rhyme with “is”, and deadline time came before inspiration.
Days whiz by. It’s a fine and valid rhyme.
The exposition is a little off though. Neither Day and night being names, and eventually winter and summer evening out, really necessarily equate to time flies by quicky. And a “score and four” seems out of the blue. (What does 24 you have to do with anything?)
Still it’s an okay strip. The “whiz” is not a problem.
For years, I’ve used the phrase, “Time flies, whether you’re having fun or not.”
The lines “Light and dark add up the same/ a score and four it ever is” go together. 24 is for the length of the whole 24-hr day; night (darkness) and the other day (period of lightness) always add up to 24 hours whether the dark period be 18 hours and the light 6, or the other way round, or anything in between and, above the Arctic Circle, above.
I expect the “Whiz” sound and line refers to “The longer days, they will not last”.
Four A.M. is whiz time.
Time flies like an arrow
Fruit flies like a banana
“Time flies, if you own a really good stopwatch and have nothing better to do.”
“24 is for the length of the whole 24-hr day”
D’oh!
Somehow I was caught up in years. 24 years seems like a reasonable but arbitrary time unit to measure life phases.
Except on time change days, when you get three and a score or five and a score.
As always, I will grumble about the idea of summer starting on the Solstice. It makes no sense astronomically or meteorologically..
Summer starting on Mid-Summer’s Day? What’s illogical about that??
It does make sense meterologically. You know how when you preheat a stove it doesn’t get hot instantly? And it stays hot for a while after you turn it off? Seasonal lag causes a similar effect. The hottest quarter of the year tends to be mid-June through mid-September, not mid-May through mid-July. Around here we get the most snow and the biggest blizzards in February and March.
In Germany, the “meteorologic” seasons begin on the first of the month containing the respective solstice or equinox, thus roughly three weeks before the “astronomic” start date. This just simplifies the question of which month belongs to which season (May=Spring, June=Summer).
It does make sense meterologically. You know how when you preheat a stove it doesn’t get hot instantly? And it stays hot for a while after you turn it off? Seasonal lag causes a similar effect.
Correct, but it doesn’t match up. In temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, the peak high temps occur around the middle of July. The TV weather people even mention that the “meteorological” summer begins June 1.
As I said, no basis for the Solstice as the start of summer. The only reason it isn’t way off is the temperature lag.