About that 3 am red phone ringing thing. I'm confused.

[uppityperson]

Why does it only ring at 3 am? Or why does it only matter what happens at 3 am when it rings? What if it rings at, say, 2:15 am, or even 7:03 pm?

[pbca]

1. In those cases it goes to voicemail

when you are making decisions that involve national security or international conflict they want to make sure it's the middle of the night and that you've been asleep for a few hours.

[uppityperson]

5. Bunch of guys sitting around, synchronising their watches. Wait, wait, wait, NOW!

call NOW! oh damn, you misdialed? shit. now we gotta wait another 23 hours, 59 minutes and 30 seconds.

[Eurobabe]

2. The answering machine gets it. n/t

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

3. The Hillary does not require sleep

It is a machine.

[Orsino]

4. It's the Democrats' version of the ticking time-bomb scenario...

...sexed up for maximum fright.

[uppityperson]

8. and for only $99.99, you can buy a PRODUCT!!!!

3 AM, OMG! That's NOTHING like 2:36 am, or even 4:34 am, and WAYYYYYYY nothing like a crisis at 5:34 pm! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

That's about what I thought. Maybe it has to do with advertising working and people wanting simplistic things (hence "only $99.99" is nothing like a hundred bucks either)

[Levgreee]

6. It doesn't matter, because there is always a well rested person in the MMCC at the pentagon

who answers or hears(depending on if it's the President's sleeptime) the phone call.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

7. It's 3 am

She say it's cold outside and she hands me my raincoat
She's always worried about things like that
She says it's all gonna end and it might as well be my fault
And she only sleeps when it's raining
And she screams and her voice is straining

She says baby
It's 3 am I must be lonely
When she says baby
Well I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes
Says the rain's gonna wash away I believe it

She's got a little bit of something, God it's better than nothing
And in her color portrait world she believes that she's got it all
She swears the moon don't hang quite as high as it used to
And she only sleeps when it's raining
And she screams and her voice is straining

She believes that life is made up of all that you're used to
And the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days, and days
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway
But outside it's stopped raining

Matchbox Twenty

[uppityperson]

9. and now.......

it is 3:02 am. All is well.

[gkhouston]

10. if it rings at other times, all she has to do is get the pizza there in 30 minutes

or less. The Air Force can deal with it. :-)

[Cha]

11. "It's 3:am and hilary is dreaming"

<snips>

"For two or three days, the Clinton campaign will spin itself -and the media--silly, breathlessly celebrating her overwhelming victories in Rhode Island and Ohio and her squeaker in Texas.

After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold. Not just that her net gain of delegates this week will be, at most, in the single digits. But worse. There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically.

Seven more weeks of campaign slog through Wyoming, Mississippi and into Pennsylvania. And then maybe tack on six more weeks, if you can believe it, into Indiana , West Virginia, and a handful of other states and into Puerto Rico on the 7th of June, quite literally into D-Day. Whatever the outcome, even if Clinton wins all 16 remaining contests -and some of them by veritable landslides, she will still be dozens of elected delegates behind Barack Obama.

She will not be the winner because she will have not won the majority of elected Democratic delegates. Clinton will be exactly where she was the night before Ohio and Texas: in second place and with no way to become the nominee unless enough unelected Superdelegates defy the popular will of the electorate and throw her the nomination (or unless you somehow believe that she can every coming primary with a 20 point margin).

<more>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-cooper/its-3-am-and-hillarys_b_89936.html

[me b zola]

12. 'Twenty-five or six till four' could have reached a certain demographic

:rofl:

[Mabus]

14. Oddly enough

it is the same demographic that understands 10 2 and 4 are the times to have a Dr. Pepper.

[Mabus]

13. I like the 3 a.m. calls

Those are usually the "I love you-I just broke up with X" phone calls. It's so nice to hear from my brothers.

Besides, everyone knows that terrorists don't operate between the hours of 7 p.m. and 2:15 a.m., so those calls are generally safe ones or mistakes.

[progdonkey]

15. it's that the person is being woken up in the middle of the night...

..and instead of saying, "I'm sleeping, call me in the morning," he/she picks up the phone and deals with the problem.

It's not just that the person picks up the phone, but that the person stays on the phone and calmly handles whatever the issue is.

That's why I'm voting for Obama. ;-)

(I'm sure they chose 3am because it would be considered "middle of the night" by most people. Since many people stay up till 2am, that doesn't cut it; and since many people wake up at 4am, that doesn't work either, so it's got to be 3am.)

[npincus]

16. and is it 3AM EST? 3PST?

[uppityperson]

20. Somewhere in the world it is 3 am. Even now.

and now. and now. and now. OK, the clock may be set for a specific time zone, but it still is 3 am, somewhere.

[AtomicKitten]

17. That's 3:00 A.M. in the Garden of Good and Evil.

[Renew Deal]

18. At 2:15, I want Biden

At 7:03, Dodd.

[texshelters]

19. 3 AM is when the devil is the most active

According to scripture, Leviticus 17:7, "the devil will take shape three hours past the middarkness has fallen"

So Clinton goes a name calling again.

You believe me, don't you?

Otherwise, I would be a liar!

There was probably a poll taken and 3 AM was seen as the most scary time of night by participants.

Tex

[uppityperson]

21. Don't forget to take Daylight Savings into consideration.

Though what with the recession, perhaps Daylight is not saving as much. Simplistic jingo advertising.