life is unfair to the midwest.
Posted by wrongobongo on January 12, 2008
And by “life” in the title, I of course mean “the world of television”. When an ad for an upcoming program comes to an end, the splash screen thingie reads: “Next Tuesday night at 8 (7c)!” or whatever. Something similar. We in the Midwest are relegated to parentheses to determine the times of our programming.
Unless.
(Unless!)
The announcer of the ad gets excited, or the end is pressed for time, or some similar case, in which case all we get is “TUESDAY NIGHT AT EIGHT!” and we poor, oppressed Midwest-dwellers have to translate the time in our own heads.
Life, she is le difficult.
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elfathina said
Oh so sorry – math is not my forte, so I guess we’ll stay planted right here in New York. My friend and her family are moving out to the midwest in June – thankfully they are very good at math, but I will email her right now just to give her the heads up so the kids can start practicing!
Emily said
In Puerto Rico, they don’t change the clocks for daylight savings time, but American TV stations they get do change them, so twice a year, all your favorite shows CHANGE WHAT TIME THEY ARE ON. All of a sudden, boom. Different time of day for Fresh Prince!