Why! 4am?

Tex1899 · #1 12-01-2006, 10:10 AM

3 comments:

1) Arriving at 4am for 7am work seems a bit odd. That being said, you don't shut off a diesel engine, you let it idle...unless you're at a cemetery.

2) I don't think "woken" is a word. But I use it, so it must be a Texas thing.

3) Hippies are bad for the enviroment. If you don't like them you should transfer to A&M, unless you're studying something like journalism.

About 26 trains run through College Station each day (for those of you who've never been fortunate enough to visit College Station, a train track cuts right through the middle of A&M's campus). I used to wake up at 2 in the morning as a train was nearing a street crossing. Fortunately I graduated several years ago so I don't have to deal with it anymore.

33girl · #2 12-01-2006, 10:27 AM

Our house was off campus, but just off campus (i.e. across the street 2 ways out of 3 was on). It was also located near a hill that apparently the ROTC found good for running up and down as part of their exercise. That would have been fine if they wouldn't have been CHANTING at the same time and doing it AT 5 IN THE MORNING.

Oh, and I think woken is a word.

pinkflamingo · #3 12-01-2006, 10:48 AM

I thought woken was right, too, but can't find it in the dictionary.

"I was awakened..." ?????????????????

DeltAlum · #4 12-01-2006, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by pinkflamingo

I thought woken was right, too, but can't find it in the dictionary.

"I was awakened..." ?????????????????

No on the first (I think)

Yes on the second (for sure)

"I wanna be an Airborne Ranger...
I wanna live a life of Danger..."

(Maybe the chants have changed since my time...)

Siggy_lxvi · #5 12-03-2006, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltAlum

"I wanna be an Airborne Ranger...
I wanna live a life of Danger..."

(Maybe the chants have changed since my time...)

My first two years of college were at a federal service academy that sent graduates to all branches of the military, so I got to hear just about every cadence in use in every service those two years (and was rather like being in a fraternity that hazes HARD and has a nine-month pledge period) and I last heard that cadence as

"wanna live a life of sex, guns and danger
wanna make my living as an Airborne Ranger"

Though, we may have miss-chanted that one based off of the "When I get to Heaven" cadence...

ISUmatt · #6 12-03-2006, 06:57 PM

My dorm last year used to be next to the Amtrak station, so every time a train came in the conductor would lay on the horn for a good 10 minutes. Also, the shape of the building is kind of concave, so the sound would echo off the building right into your window, regardless of what direction you faced. Sometimes it would be so loud the room would shake and stuff would fall over - pretty amazing for a massive 30+ story building..

KatieKate1244 · #7 12-03-2006, 08:50 PM

Trains run a mere 30 feet from my dorm window. It doesn't bother me anymore.

However, my first college was a stone's throw from the Columbus Airport...first night of college, I got landing lights right in my windows (and eyes). Try sleeping through that!

_Lisa_ · #8 12-01-2006, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

Our house was off campus, but just off campus (i.e. across the street 2 ways out of 3 was on). It was also located near a hill that apparently the ROTC found good for running up and down as part of their exercise. That would have been fine if they wouldn't have been CHANTING at the same time and doing it AT 5 IN THE MORNING.

This happened when I lived at U of L, the ROTC guys would run & chant at 5AM past the dorms.

alum · #9 12-01-2006, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

Our house was off campus, but just off campus (i.e. across the street 2 ways out of 3 was on). It was also located near a hill that apparently the ROTC found good for running up and down as part of their exercise. That would have been fine if they wouldn't have been CHANTING at the same time and doing it AT 5 IN THE MORNING.

Oh, and I think woken is a word.

PT is always run at o'dark-thirty!
Don't you remember the military slogan
"We get more done before 9 am than most people get done in a day"?

MysticCat · #10 12-01-2006, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by pinkflamingo

I thought woken was right, too, but can't find it in the dictionary.

"I was awakened..."

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Originally Posted by DeltAlum

No on the first (I think)

Yes on the second (for sure)

Per Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd Ed. 1965), any of the following would/could be correct for passive voice, past tense:

"I was awakened by the noise."

"The noise wakened me." (rare, though, and therefore not preferred.)

"I was wakened by it."

"I was woke by it." (not preferred)

"I was woken by it."

My Random House Unabridged does have "woken" in it.

RU OX Alum · #11 12-01-2006, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

Per Fowler's Modern English Usage (2nd Ed. 1965), any of the following would/could be correct for passive voice, past tense:

"I was awakened by the noise."

"The noise wakened me." (rare, though, and therefore not preferred.)

"I was wakened by it."

"I was woke by it." (not preferred)

"I was woken by it."

My Random House Unabridged does have "woken" in it.

When would you use "awoken"

Texas Beta · #12 12-01-2006, 02:57 PM

Who cares! Now all I hear is the banging of the workers renovating the KA house next door. I can't wait to see it when it's finished, but I sure hate the work that's involved. Hey macallan, didn't it take you guys just a couple of months to finish yalls apartments?

Another thing that annoys me: Next to our house is this shanty looking crack house (you can go from beautiful homes, to crap in West Campus) and there is an ex-con crack head living there. For work now, he installs small motors onto bicycles and they are loud and high pitched. That's not even the clincher, When I pass by his place on the way to the bus stop, I can see one of our coolers sitting next to his door! The jackass stole one of our coolers! I think our house is to far west, in west campus.

MysticCat · #13 12-01-2006, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

When would you use "awoken"

"He was awoken by a knock on the door," perhaps.

I should have completely quoted the first part of the entry before: Awake has past awoke, rarely awaked, and p.p. awaked sometimes awoken and rarely awoke; wake has past woke, rarely (and that usually in transitive sense) waked, and p.p. waked, rarely woke or woken; awaken and waken have -ed.

So I should have noted that "I was woken by it" is also rare, but acceptable. I should have also noted that Fowler's tends to reflect British rather than American usage.

I grew up near a railroad track and I love the sound of a train at night.

On the other hand, work trucks would have me going insane.

Tom Earp · #14 12-01-2006, 03:28 PM

When something woken you up from a dead sleep in the middle of great dream!

Hell, that time of the morning cob webs in the head!

Local lingo is apparent at times is it not?

macallan25 · #15 12-01-2006, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Earp

When something woken you up from a dead sleep in the middle of great dream!

Hell, that time of the morning cob webs in the head!

Local lingo is apparent at times is it not?

No.