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Sun Sep-11-11 02:23 PM
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Poll question: How would you modify the calendar? |
Tuesday Afternoon
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Sun Sep-11-11 02:58 PM
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1. do away with February. |
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Sun Sep-11-11 05:54 PM
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8. Yeah, start March right after January and then make St. Patrick's day 672 hours longer. |
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That way April will be right where it belongs.
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:15 PM
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19. I went to a University that had a long weekend in February called Monroe Day. Some |
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rich guy gave the university money on condition that they have a long weekend in Feb. Changes your perspective when there is something to celebrate in a month.
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Sun Sep-11-11 03:34 PM
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2. In leap years, March should begin with March 0 and then proceed to March 1, March 2, etc. |
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Sun Sep-11-11 05:05 PM
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3. I can't worry about this until I achieve my pet goal, getting the prime meridian some factors. n/t |
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Sun Sep-11-11 05:27 PM
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4. I'd prefer a lunarsolar calendar with uncounted time. |
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You pick an annual start point, say the return of the salmon. Then you count off ten moons. Then you have an uncounted time until the next start point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar
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Sun Sep-11-11 05:34 PM
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5. I would base it on fallopian tubes. |
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Sun Sep-11-11 05:44 PM
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6. I'm not that tech-savvy: is this the next wave after the innertubes on the information superhighway? |
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Sun Sep-11-11 05:49 PM
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7. 12 30 day months with 2 free beer days between dec 30th and Jan 1st... |
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and 3 free beer days between June 30th and July 1st. Leap years will start with 3 rather than 2 free beer days.
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Sun Sep-11-11 06:11 PM
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9. I don't know about calenders, but |
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I sure wish they'd put mornings later in the day. Prettiest time of the 24 hours and it's always while you want to sleep. I think morning should be around 10.
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Sun Sep-11-11 06:15 PM
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10. 10 months per year. Each 36 days long. Then 5 days where there is party and all slaves are free. |
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Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 06:16 PM by RedCloud
There should be a gift exchange too.
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Sun Sep-11-11 06:31 PM
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10 months per year, 10 hours per day, each hour has 100 minutes.
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The US would of course not go along with it.
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Sun Sep-11-11 07:16 PM
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12. We should all support ten day months and ten month years. I've written Congress about many times! |
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But we'll never get it: very few people realize that the Calendar Lobby has a death grip on Washington
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Sun Sep-11-11 07:52 PM
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13. The first day of spring |
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should be New Years Day.
January 1? Who thought that was a good idea?
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:08 PM
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14. Make every month 28 days long |
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There would be thirteen months, each the same length. Monday would be the first of the month, and Sunday would be the seventh day of the week. The months would be named as such: 1st month: Eins 2nd month: Deus 3rd month: Tres ...and so on; basically, the number of the month in one of thirteen languages. I'm pushin' for the ninth month to be named in Polish just to see the looks on the teabaggers' faces--"nine" in Polish is, as best as I can do with no Polish alphabet on this thing, "dziewiec.' (It's pronounced like 'jev-yench.')
The months would take up 364 days. Three years out of four, there would be one extra day. It would be called New Year's Day, as the first day of the year is now, but it wouldn't have a "weekday" name--it would come between the fourth Sunday in Tretton (thirteen in Swedish) and the first Monday in Eins, In the fourth year, there will be two extra days. The second one is between the second Sunday and first Monday in the seventh month, and will be named "World Election Day." And while we're at it, there will be a world law that says anyone who campaigns in any way for any office before the first of Eins of election year will be immediately named to the parliament of Somalia and sent there. For good.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:21 PM
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Except I'd name the months after animals.
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Sun Sep-11-11 09:44 PM
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16. You could name the months after anything you liked... |
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If nothing else, it would make your finances easier--everyone who got paid on alternating Fridays would always get paid on the 12th and the 26th.
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Sun Sep-11-11 10:40 PM
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17. Maybe eliminate August. n/t |
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Sun Sep-11-11 10:54 PM
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18. Just chuck the whole thing |
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:16 PM
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20. Don't touch a thing. If you did I would have to change all the models for time in my brain. Noooooo! |
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Sun Sep-11-11 11:25 PM
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21. I would have six Septembers and six Octobers. |
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