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by Dave Barry , Nationally Syndicated Columnist

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
5. You should not confuse your career with your life.
6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
7. Never lick a steak knife.
8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.
12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.
13. A person who is nice to you but rude to a waiter is not a nice person.
(This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)
14. Your friends love you anyway.
15. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
16. Men are like fine wine. They start out as grapes, and it's up to the women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

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djalbin wrote:9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
This coming from someone who lives in AZ?
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Tim,
The quote "You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time" is why most of Arizona does not observe DST. (actually I don't know why but any reason seems like a good reason if you're not going to do something)

Most of Arizona is Mountain Standard Time (Arizona Standard Time is 7 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-7). Arizona does not observe Daylight-Saving Time so it's Mountain Standard Time all year around.
The exception is in the Navajo Nation Community which does observe Daylight-Saving Time. However, the Hopi Nation, within the Navajo Reservation, does not observe DST.

So if you drive a path through the Navajo Nation (northeast corner of Arizona) on a path that goes through the Hopi Nation you go from MST to DST, DST to MST, MST to DST, and then DST to MST.

Anybody know what time it is ??
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