Earlier this morning (or, more than likely, last night before going off to bed), many of us set our clocks back an hour. (2 am is when it all "officially" happened ... but I don't know that any of us actually set an alarm to do so at 2:00 ... 'cause even if you did, it would only go off again in another hour after falling back ... and who out there wants to get up at 2 am on a Sunday Morning ... much less TWICE?!?!)
This morning, Chuck Buell gives us a little clock tutorial (as only he can)
What can be said that hasn’t already been said about Daylight Saving Time or Standard Time?
OK.
How about when you set your clocks back one hour this morning at 2 O’clock!
What does “O’clock” mean?
Well, it’s simply a contraction of a phrase from Middle English, "of the Clokke.”
Clearly however, saying "of the clock" all the time was taking too much “time” to say every “time,” and so it eventually became abbreviated to just "o'clock!”
The first “time” this was reportedly used was in 1560. For a while, tho, a rival phrase "a clock" was also used, though this seems to have died out in the 1800s when o'clock became preferred.
And on this timely subject of “Clocks,” why is getting hit referred to as “getting clocked?!”
Well, it appears that the Human Face has been likened to a clock “Face,” and when one is toiling or working, one “clocks” or “punches” in before and after each shift. Sources credit our Australian Friends slang sense of putting those "hit and sock and punch" concepts together in about 1941 resulting in the phrase of being "clocked!"
Now, I’m only speculating here, but if an alarm clock should somehow enter into all this, maybe that would explain another expression when one gets clobbered of “getting their bell rung!”
(Oh, and BTW, I'm setting MY Clocks back to when I was 21!)
With all that being said, as we turn back time by returning to Standard Time This Morning, it’s “time” to “clock in” with this “CB ‘Clock’ Minute Medley!”
CB ( which stands for “Cuckoo Boy!” )
Here's our own salute to TIME from a couple of years back ...
https://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2022/01/sweet-16-january.html
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
11/3/64 – Lyndon Baines Johnson is elected President of the United States in a landslide victory. Teamed with Hubert Humphrey as his vice president, they defeated the Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater and his running mate William E. Miller with a record 61% of the popular vote and the electoral votes of 44 of the 50 states. In raw numbers, Johnson received 43,127,041 votes to Goldwater’s 27,175,770; he also got 486 electors to Goldwater's 52. The people had definitely spoken during this election.
Don't forget to vote on Tuesday!
Also on 11/3, a 17 year-old fan fell from the balcony during
a Rolling Stones gig in Cleveland, Ohio. The Mayor of Ohio banned all future
pop concerts, saying; "Such groups do not add to the community's culture
or entertainment."
