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What the hell is midnight oil?

9 Comments Posted by chipx86 on January 17, 2006

I’ve never understood that expression.. “Burning the midnight oil.” What’s midnight oil? Oil that is only used at midnight? Why do we want to just burn it? I don’t know..

I’m pulling an all-nighter. Oh how I missed these… Except I shouldn’t be doing this. Still, getting a lot done, so it’s worth it, but I think I’m going to crash. If you don’t count sleep and a couple small breaks, I’ve been working about 57 hours straight. I didn’t even notice the weekend. Now it’s Tuesday.. This week’s going to fly by. It’s worth it though.

I don’t know why I wrote this. Trying to keep my eyelids open. Back to work.

Life

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9 Responses to What the hell is midnight oil?

senectus January 17, 2006 at 4:43 AM
uh.. apparently it came from :
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/80200.html

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Mikey Cooper January 17, 2006 at 4:54 AM
Oil-burning lamps when cramming for their finals, they didn’t have electricity back in the day.

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Andy Wingo January 17, 2006 at 5:05 AM
According to an old episode of http://www.drscience.com/, midnight oil is an excretion of the musk gland of the inspiration weasel.

Now you know!

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Nathaniel McCallum January 17, 2006 at 5:12 AM
The phrase “mid-night oyle” from the poem above is probably an allusion to this (much earlier) parable: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%20:1-13;&version=31;

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sb January 17, 2006 at 5:19 AM
Such inspiration. What are you working on?

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ChipX86 January 17, 2006 at 5:26 AM
sb: I’ll blog about it when it’s finally done.

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Peter Robinson January 17, 2006 at 6:29 AM
Midnight Oil is a good Australian Band http://www.midnightoil.com/

But really its from the olden days -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Oil

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James January 17, 2006 at 7:53 AM
It is obviously a reference to the Australian rock band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Oil

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calum January 19, 2006 at 10:02 AM
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/80200.html
http://www.takeourword.com/TOW138/page2.html

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