This is not a piece of my own creative work. But if you put up a prompt about one’s experience with time zone changes, and one of your respondents to the prompt has a brother who has made a living with a comedy routine on that topic–well, what did you expect?
Here is my brother Hugh on a Rodney Dangerfield special. Go to 5:11 to pick up the “time zone” bit.
Dale Borman FinkDale Borman Fink retired in 2020 from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA, where he taught courses related to research methods, early childhood education, special education, and children’s literature. Prior to that he was involved in childcare, after-school care, and support for the families of children with disabilities. Among his books are Making a Place for Kids with Disabilities (2000) Control the Climate, Not the Children: Discipline in School Age Care (1995), and a children’s book, Mr. Silver and Mrs. Gold (1980). In 2018, he edited a volume of his father's recollections, called SHOPKEEPER'S SON.
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Your brother is a riot, Dale. Thanks for sharing this. I needed a good laugh today!
Funny guy!
That was great. And even more pertinent because Indiana has two time zones, right? I didn’t know your brother is a comedian. Tell us more about him!
For those who missed it, here is a previous Retrospect story. Although I see that the Letterman Show has taken down the video of Hugh I had put up from their show. https://www.myretrospect.com/stories/and-now-for-an-unexpected-interruption-of-logical-sequence/
Love a good standup. No one is smarted than a talented comedian.
Funny stuff, Dale! When is this from? How old was your brother at the time? Of course the jokes were universal (though Moses Malone was a while ago). Love the time zone confusion. Now we are on DST, but Europe isn’t, so for two weeks, my kids in London are six hours ahead of us, until their clock advances. How about that?
This was a Rodney Dangerfield special, and let’s face it, Rodney left the mortal coil quite a few years ago. So yes, this was much earlier in Hugh’s career, maybe in the late 1990s? You have kids in London–what are they in, the paleolithic Age?