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Alternative King for a Day Thread

Centerfield Dec 27 2012 11:51 AM

So you decided to pass on FK's three options (or you didn't, whatever, you are King after all). Tell us what changes you would institute here: 1. The first two days of the NCAA tournament are holidays. Anyone caught working, or trying to get someone else to work is immediately shot. No exceptions. Unless of course, your work is related to the NCAA tournaments. And fast food. Fast food joints should be open too. And I guess maybe hospitals? Ok. Electric companies should work too. We do need to watch the games. So maybe a few exceptions. 2. All holidays are on Mondays with the exception of Christmas, New Year's and Thanksgiving. It's a waste to have July 4 on a Wednesday. Christmas and New Year's will forever be on Tuesday. Two four day weekends to end the year. Thanksgiving can remain on Thursdays. Some people will flip out saying you can't move Jesus's birthday. If you do it for MLK, GW, and AL, you can do it for JC. 3. The Monday after Super Bowl Sunday is a holiday. 4. Columbus Day and Veteran's day are restored to full-fledged holiday status. 5. It will always be Daylight Savings Time. 6. All beaches will be topless. (credit to FMan) 7. It will be illegal to buy holiday gifts for anyone who does not live in your home. 8. Opening Day will be a holiday. Every team in baseball kicks off with a day game on the same day. If you are rained out, you are excused from work until the season starts. 9. The day off after Opening Day will be eliminated. 10. Coldplay would be deported.

metirish Dec 27 2012 11:54 AM Re: Alternative King for a Day Thread

Ha!, love # 9, we all complain about that...... WiFi shall be free and shall be prevalent , stop hoarding that shit like you own it....

Ceetar Dec 27 2012 11:57 AM Re: Alternative King for a Day Thread

alterations: 1. screw the NCAA. amateurs. 2. I like Christmas and New Years on Friday instead of Tuesday. this going back the day after thing was rough. Super Bowl Sunday can become Super Bowl Saturday without needing an official extra day off, although i'm still okay with that. 3. I like NEVER daylight savings time better. 4. Aren't most beaches already topless due to gender equality laws? 5. I think I care about Coldplay less than the NCAA.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 27 2012 11:58 AM Re: Alternative King for a Day Thread

Any gun aimed at an innocent person will backfire, destroying the shooters hands and forearms.

Edgy MD Dec 27 2012 12:02 PM Re: Alternative King for a Day Thread

It seems you're alla bout more leisure. 1. Sorry. I've grown into an NCAA tournament wet blanket. 2. Monday holidays are for the birds. 3. Feh. 4. Columbus day can suck it. 5. If it's always daylight savings time, it will never be daylight savings time, or some such. 6. I like boobies as much as the next guy, but I think you need to consider the Law of Unintended Consequences on this one. 7. Economy: toilet. 8. I can work wit this. 9. That's what kingship is made for. 10. I've warmed up some over my earlier hatred of Coldplay. There are plenty more demoralizing bands out there. OK, maybe not plenty, but some. Anyhow, it's a dangerous precedent, because a successor king might then expatriate Band of Horses or somebody.

Frayed Knot Dec 27 2012 12:49 PM Re: Alternative King for a Day Thread Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Dec 27 2012 03:32 PM

1. The first two days of the NCAA tournament are holidays. -- Nah. If you need these days off you're either an addicted gambler or you care way too much about the fate of teenagers playing basketball for schools you didn't go to. Either way you need to seek help. 2. All holidays are on Mondays with the exception of Christmas, New Year's and Thanksgiving. -- There's a revamped calendar idea that solves a lot of this as in it each date falls on the same day of the week every year. That idea has some merit but it would be a major upheaval and would cause a lot of drawbacks. 3. The Monday after Super Bowl Sunday is a holiday. -- That's what the NFL is trying to get to with their 18-game schedule; the SB gets pushed back to President's weekend so the nation can celebrate football instead of past statesmen. Of course the league could solve the problem now by simply moving the game up by a day but won't do it for fear of slightly decreased TV ratings on Saturday as compared to Sunday. 4. Columbus Day and Veteran's day are restored to full-fledged holiday status. -- I'll compromise here by backing one full holiday instead of two half-ones and choose Vets Day over Columbus. 5. It will always be Daylight Savings Time. -- Remember also that the sunrise/sunset times vary wildly depending on where you live within a time zone. Those on the western ends of TZs won't like this so much and remember that some parts of the country don't go on DST at all. 6. All beaches will be topless. -- Well sure 7. It will be illegal to buy holiday gifts for anyone who does not live in your home. -- Eh. I'm indifferent to this one. 8. Opening Day will be a holiday. -- I've said this every spring during the existence of this forum 9. The day off after Opening Day will be eliminated. -- It's to guard against rain/cold-outs. If that off-day isn't there it'll be somewhere else. 10. Coldplay would be deported. -- Again, I'm indifferent. Besides, I thought they were already English.

Kong76 Dec 27 2012 03:20 PM Re: Alternative King for a Day Thread

Centerfield wrote: 8. Opening Day will be a holiday. Every team in baseball kicks off with a day game on the same day. If you are rained out, you are excused from work until the season starts. 9. The day off after Opening Day will be eliminated. These! Don't really go the beach anymore, but bare titties for all if you still do the ozone.