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."
