Question everything

If there are 365 days in a year, and a moon lasts 28 days, wouldn't there have to be 13 moons a year? And an international holiday for the day left over?

 

Absolutely so, Hyo --

The Hebrew calendar is a lunar calendar in which each month lasts 28 days. The year is something like 354 days long.

Every "several" years a leap month is added in order to keep that calendar in proximity with the secular calendar. By "several," I mean that the schedule for adding a leap month is a bit more complex, than a Feb. 29 leap day.

The extra moth occurs in spring, and is called "Adar B," as though we might say "March B" (following March).


So -- to frame this as a question, as Paul Harvey may have said, and now, do you know the rest of the story?


(Spectra steps behind the chicken-wire fence, so as to avoid the air-borne, Salmonella'd tomatoes) :brick:

 

Weren't there 10 months until Julius and Augustus messed things up?

 

Those wacky ancient Romans!arty:
Who knows what they'll come up with next?

 

Didn't they invent the orgy...?

 

Oh, I didn't say they messed everything up, did I?

 

Dang... ya'll are having all this orgy talk fun without me? What's up with that?

 

You didn't hear us trying to wake you & leave notes for you?

 

Guess you didn't know that I'm a sound sleeper, did you?

 

Oh was THAT why I couldn't hear you? Dogpile and Janis is on the bottom?

 

Is that what you were dreaming about? :brick:

 

Ahhhhhh....isn't it nice to be able to depend on Hyo and Janis to keep up our standards around here?

 

We have standards?

 

Sure... didn't I see them way back on the shelf behind the never worn sweater from Aunt Martha?

 

The sweater that Aunt Martha S. knitted in jail ?

( rubs hands together in anticipation -- oh boy, here's another topic to open the floodgates! )

 

Can I help it if she used her cell mate Bertha as a model and the sweater just wouldn't fit?

(HEE! Good one Steve!)

 

Can Steve & Janis organize a free concert at Echo Beach, featuring Martha & the Muffins, for the Prius Posse (shown below)?

:hippie::mullet::alien::tongue1::clap2::spy::evil::rockon: