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What exactly comes After Hours?

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  • 22-12-2006 5:48am
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    mloc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭


    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.


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    caff
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    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


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    [Deleted User]
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    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


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    tman
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    caff wrote:
    instinctivly I would answer

    minutes.. then seconds
    Would've said "days, weeks, months, years, decades, YORE MA!" myself


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    caff
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    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


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    Black Swan
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    After after hours?


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    caff
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    maybe its like

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

    so afer hours its back to before hours?


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    JaysusMacfeck
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    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!


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    Hagar
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    mloc wrote:
    What comes after "hours"?

    A question mark. What did I win?


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    caff
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭caff


    Hagar wrote:
    A question mark. What did I win?

    nothing

    the " comes before the ?


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    Our man in Havana
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    caff wrote:
    nothing

    the " comes before the ?
    Indeed it does. :D


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    #12
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    House?


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    pantar_dubh
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    posts


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    Archeron
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    Tia Maria


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    Hagar
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    After Eights


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    Hail 2 Da Chimp
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    More drinking of some sort im gonna guess, then after that a hangover :(


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    Beruthiel
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    morning


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    #18
    Red Hand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


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


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    #19
    azezil
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    Santa!

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


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    scojones
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    The walk of shame.


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    Splinter
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    holding your ceramic friend in your arms?


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    [Deleted User]
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    The after party?


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    #23
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Yours?


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    Karoma
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    Work / Life. (i.e. \"Hours\") ¬_¬


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    #25
    Feral Mutant
    Registered Users Posts: 950 ✭✭✭Feral Mutant


    More hours.


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    #26
    biko
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    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?


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    #27
    Lump
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    Yore MA!


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    #28
    Ickle Magoo
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    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...:)


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    #29
    mloc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭mloc


    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.


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    tman
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    Lump wrote:
    Yore MA!
    I did "YORE MA!" on the last page, try to keep up.


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


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