What exactly comes After Hours?

mloc · 22-12-2006 4:48am #1

This is perhaps a woefully stupid question, but at this extremely late stage in the morning, the phrase "after hours" has began to puzzle me somewhat.

What comes after "hours"?

I challenge you to answer that.

Perhaps this would be best moved to the etymology/linguistics forum. In advance.

caff · 22-12-2006 4:53am

instinctivly I would answer

minutes.. then seconds

however.... more abstract and I would answer cold night air and then onset of soberness .. possibly coupled with a takeaway and taxi ride

22-12-2006 5:03am

caff wrote:

however.... more abstract and I would answer cold night air and then onset of soberness .. possibly coupled with a takeaway and taxi ride

Wow,thats a deep post for after hours.lol

tman · 22-12-2006 5:06am

caff wrote:

instinctivly I would answer

minutes.. then seconds

Would've said "days, weeks, months, years, decades, YORE MA!" myself

caff · 22-12-2006 5:14am

Deleted User wrote:

Wow,thats a deep post for after hours.lol

i'll be in work here till 8am.. anything to keep me awake has my full attention..

thus the deep philsophical ramblings

Black Swan · 22-12-2006 5:19am

After after hours?

caff · 22-12-2006 5:23am

maybe its like

before hours -> hours -> after hours...

so afer hours its back to before hours?

JaysusMacfeck · 22-12-2006 6:30am

After hours ends when people who have had a good night's sleep start posting and those who are still awake scuttle off to bed.

edit: which would be about now. oiche mhaith!

Hagar · 22-12-2006 6:39am

mloc wrote:

What comes after "hours"?

A question mark. What did I win?

caff · 22-12-2006 6:49am

Hagar wrote:

A question mark. What did I win?

nothing

the " comes before the ?

Our man in Havana · 22-12-2006 7:31am

caff wrote:

nothing

the " comes before the ?

Indeed it does.

Adam · 22-12-2006 7:37am

House?

pantar_dubh · 22-12-2006 8:09am

posts

Archeron · 22-12-2006 8:13am

Tia Maria

Hagar · 22-12-2006 8:20am

After Eights

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 22-12-2006 8:25am

More drinking of some sort im gonna guess, then after that a hangover

Beruthiel · 22-12-2006 8:34am

morning

Red Hand · 22-12-2006 9:18am

All Things Retro comes after After Hours? How does that work then?

azezil · 22-12-2006 9:29am

Santa!

The ultimate force for right in the universe, bringer of gifts for the good, punisher of the wicked *shakes mighty fist of DOOM*

scojones · 22-12-2006 9:55am

The walk of shame.

Splinter · 22-12-2006 11:18am

holding your ceramic friend in your arms?

22-12-2006 11:30am

The after party?

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 22-12-2006 12:45pm

Yours?

Karoma · 22-12-2006 12:47pm

Work / Life. (i.e. \"Hours\") ¬_¬

Feral Mutant · 22-12-2006 1:44pm

More hours.

biko · 22-12-2006 2:38pm

Since hours are a definition used by all earthlings we will probably use it forever.
Maybe there will be earth-hours, mars-hours and space-hours after hours?

Lump · 23-12-2006 12:48am

Yore MA!

Ickle Magoo · 23-12-2006 1:04am

I always saw "after "hours" as those hours after the pub closes that people are at the stage of yabbering complete crap, with the odd bit of genius thrown in...:)

mloc · 23-12-2006 1:35am

I gotta say, I'm kinda suprised at the amount of responses to this one. I was rather drunk when I posted that last night. Rather very.

tman · 23-12-2006 1:51am

Lump wrote:

Yore MA!

I did "YORE MA!" on the last page, try to keep up.

The_Minister · 23-12-2006 2:06am

According to my dictionary:
Hourglass comes after "Hour" which incorperates "Hours".
"House" comes after if you count the "S"

monkeyfudge · 23-12-2006 2:21am

I believe The Colour of Money was the next film Scorsese directed after After Hours.

the_syco · 23-12-2006 2:36am

mloc wrote:

This is perhaps a woefully stupid question, but at this extremely late stage in the morning, the phrase "after hours" has began to puzzle me somewhat.

What comes after "hours"?

After hours are the hours after you finish work. Thus they are linked to the time when you play*.

*Either that, or yore ma comes after hours...