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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:12 PM
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Poll question: When do you consider summer over?
I always considered it Sept 1, the meterological start of fall.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:13 PM
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1. Right after the unlimited hydro races.
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SaveABug Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:14 PM
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2. When the RV's from Texas and California
return to their usual resting places.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:15 PM
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3. The first time I run the furnace
:)
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:18 PM
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4. When school starts
Because that's when you have to start watching out for school zones. It's a real clear sign to me.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:20 PM
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5. never... Summer is an attitude, not a temperature range.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:22 PM
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6. I disagree, but
interesting position. :)
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:59 PM
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9. Live life like it is summer every day.
Don't let the tyrany of the calendar/watch or other's opinion of you change your actions.
BBQ whenever you want, not just because it is a friggin holiday.
Go to the beach in the winter, it is beautiful
Don't be scared of the early darkness, embrace it.

Go, live, adapt, improvise, overcome.

We are not around long enough, and you should do it all before * makes it illegal.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 10:17 PM
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16. I like to adapt..
But I do enjoy what each season has to offer. I'm so used to 4-season climates that I wouldn't want it any different.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:24 PM
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7. technically,
it's the fall equinox, on September 21st. :-)
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:27 PM
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8. When The Celebrity Benefits/Tourist Population
starts winding down... after Labor Day...

And I can drive into town without having to deal with traffic jams and rude people with
too much money and too few social skills.

I live in the "Hamptons"

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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 10:06 PM
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14. OOh, I feel for you. I used to live out there...too long a commute
for me... moved inward to Babylon. I can't stand even going out there until at least October for weekends, and mid-Sept for general things.
Had to go out to Riverhead and Orient last week... I wanted to scream and start shooting.

I do not know how anyone does it anymore out there.
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:59 PM
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10. When I have to don a pulli
And gloves to pedal my steed.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 10:02 PM
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11. IN TEXAS
SOMETIME IN F***ING DECEMBER. x(
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 10:04 PM
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12. Whenever the quail,
Edited on Mon Aug-25-03 10:18 PM by dweller
puny, piss-ant and piss poor awol pumped up product of the pnacian excuse of a pResident gets off his lazy, ignorant ass and heads back to the now peaceful district that he is being overpaid to occupy, and pretends to perform his pitiful portrayal of a puppet of Re:puke: propaganda, then i consider it over. It's been Peaceful in some respect without his punkass around.

But, then it becomes the fall.
:hi: just cleaning your screen here...
sorry for the spittle... I voted other.
dp
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 10:05 PM
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13. When stew for dinner starts sounding good again.
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 10:08 PM
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15. End of Daylight savings time
when is that anyway
not for a million years I bet

I'm sunburned
the hurricanes still spin their summer dances
It will last forever won't it
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nemo137 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 10:21 PM
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17. when i have to wear a jacket for the first time n/t.
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 10:29 PM
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18. The fall equinox...
Septembers are awesome here in Oregon, one of the pleasantest months, weatherwise...I always look forward to October, too, perhaps my favorite month. November through February is the dark time here, but we've had remarkably mild winters the past few years (last winter we had no frost in Portland until the last week in march, a week after winter was"over"...
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leftist_rebel1569 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 10:31 PM
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19. When School Starts
for me, Summer is vacation time...
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 11:27 PM
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20. When the final game of the world series has ended
and the San Francisco Giants win the pennant...


The Giants win the pennant!


The giants win the pennant!


The giants win the pennant!



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5thGenDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 04:50 PM
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34. My birthday (Oct 4)
I was going to say when the baseball season ends and
THE TIGERS WIN THE PENNANT!!
THE TIGERS WIN THE PENNANT!!
THE TIGERS WIN THE PENNANT!!
...but that, of course, would be when Hell Freezes Over.
John
Been to five games @ Comerica this season. The Tigs lost them all.
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Mr. Brown of MD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 11:30 PM
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21. When school starts
But of course.

I'm actually not minding going back to school this time. We'll see if I still have that opinion in December, though.

-CollegeDude
14 credits on deck this semester
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MaryBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 01:22 PM
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22. Cold (cool) weather starts here
on Hallowe'en.
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pmbryant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 02:06 PM
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23. When I go outside at night and actually feel chilly
When evening temperatures drop into the 50s. In south central Texas, that generally occurs sometime in the last week of September.

At that point, we in Texas haven't felt chilly outdoors for five months or so, so it is a strange feeling.

That's when I declare summer to be over. :D

--Peter
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 02:26 PM
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24. I get depressed
when the birds stop singing their morning and evening "stay away from my nest" songs and the cicadas start buzzing.;(
LuLu
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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 02:55 PM
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25. September 23rd
Edited on Tue Aug-26-03 02:55 PM by mrmcd
Thats when it's over for me.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 03:41 PM
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28. My Birthday?!?!?
What did i do to you that you would think just because i'm having a birthday, summer is over? Boy, and you don't even know me. (Kidding!)
The Professor
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 02:57 PM
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26. usually around thanksgiving
Edited on Tue Aug-26-03 02:59 PM by amazona
Really I go by the first cool weather, which in recent years does not occur until the end of November/beginning of December (southeast Louisiana).

It really depends on where you draw the line. I first observed fall migration of Wilson's phalarope on July 9, which would make it quite a short summer this year...and quite a hot autumn! Many people in my area have their "winter" hummingbirds already.
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MiltonLeBerle Donating Member (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 03:16 PM
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27. 6 PM on Labor Day.
That's when the city crews go around and start removing the lifeguard stands from the beaches in Chicago.
I never understood why they couldn't just wait until Tuesday morning to do it- until I found out what "double overtime" means.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 03:41 PM
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29. When It's Too Cold For Golf
And for me, that's pretty darn cold! (Under 40 degrees F)
The Professor
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GAspnes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 03:50 PM
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31. close. when the snow stays on the ground.
but your golf test is pretty close.
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 03:49 PM
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30. When school starts=day after Labor Day...
for obvious reasons.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 03:56 PM
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32. Here In Colorado, Summer is Over At The First Snowfall
Which can happen any time after Labor Day.............

:-)
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-26-03 04:21 PM
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33. When it gets cold
That usually happens here in Wisconsin when my college alma mater starts classes which is usually just before the fall equinox. The weather will be changing rapidly in the rest few weeks. That's when I stop wearing shorts and wear jeans regularly when I'm not at work.
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