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 Title text: Family going to bed at 10 PM is so much worse than jet lag. |
Explanation
The script is built similarly to the original A Visit from St. Nicholas, even derriving a few lines from the original poem ("'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house" "Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;"). The punchline is that Cueball has been so used to using the computer late at night (possibly either due to him working hard into the night at coding projects or using the Internet excessively due to all the interesting things that the Internet has to offer) that, when Santa Claus comes to deliver the presents (at a time when normal folks sleep), he notices a still-awake Cueball and apparently asks "What are you doing up so late?" The title text expands on this, contrasting Cueball being forced to sleep at a "normal" time against jet lag, that is, the feeling of sleeplessness due to your body being synchronized to a different time zone than the one you are present, so named because one traveling in a jet could easily pass through time zones, even though the sleep pattern of the pilot stays the same. (We can conclude that Cueball visited his parents for Christmas time, a Christmas tradition, but his family lives at a different time zone than him.)
Transcript
- Narrator: 'Twas the night before Christmas at my family's house.
- Narrator: There were no sound of stirring save the click of a mouse.
- Narrator: For 'twas just like a childhood Christmas except
- Narrator: I'd forgotten the hours that normal folks slept.
- Santa: What are you doing out of bed so late?
- Cueball: Late? It's barely 3AM!
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Can we just change "used to using", if it is bad, into something better, instead of marking the explanation as incomplete because of a wording issue? -St.nerol (talk) 10:43, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Because Cueball exclaims that it's barely 3 AM, would Cueball's internal sleep clock need to be turned more than five hours to sync with his family? I know it's a small detail, but I thought it would be worth noting. Cueball would probably stay up past 3 AM into the morning hours before going to bed. NAE (talk) 14:45, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
