> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:38:57 +0800, Robert Bannister > <robban1@bigpond.com> wrote: > >>What I want to know is what do they do with all this daylight they've >>saved? I'm not getting it, and I think they're using my daylight for >>nefarious activities. > > Benjamin Franklin first proposed daylight time (it's not really > called Daylight *Savings* Time anymore). > > I've hear it commented that daylight time was invented by an > Amrican Indian who, finding his blanket too short to reach his > chin, cut off the lower end of the blanket and sewed it onto the > upper end.
Apparently Irishmen worry more about their feet:
The Irishman, who found his blanket too short to cover his legs, hit upon the clever expedient, for lengthening it, of cutting a piece from the top and sewing it on to the bottom. This is pretty much what Sir Robert Peel has done for the Amendment of the Corn Law; what he has cut off from the duty he has tacked on to the averages.--(1842)
_The Life and Labours of Albany Fonblanque_, 1874
An excuse may be found for the learned Archbishop that he possessed a Hibernian intellect, which is known to suffer from singular and amusing aberrations, like that of the Irishman who, finding his blanket too short to cover his feet, cut off a portion from the top and sewed it on to the bottom.
P.C. Sense, _A Critical and Historical Enquiry into the Origin of the Third Gospel_, 1901
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