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(#5674593) Re: March 15
Posted by fatdaddy on 16 Mar 2025 at 11:28AM
Actually neither I nor auto recognized it. Auto correct was focused only on single words and I was quite worn out from several days of my neighbor's poisons.
(#5674519) Re: March 15
Posted by Jools on 16 Mar 2025 at 12:02AM
Yes I know that, but the typo was funny, probably due to auto correct
(#5674518) Re: March 15
Posted by GinnyB on 15 Mar 2025 at 11:55PM
It's technically the IDES OF MARCH..

From Wikipedia
The Ides of March (aɪdz; Latin: Idus Martiae, Medieval Latin: Idus Martii)[1] is the day on the Roman calendar marked as the Idus, roughly the midpoint of a month, of Martius, corresponding to 15 March on the Gregorian calendar. It was marked by several major religious observances. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history.
(#5674515) Re: March 15
Posted by Jools on 15 Mar 2025 at 11:38PM
Funny typo
"Beware the idea of March"
(#5674426) March 15
Posted by fatdaddy on 15 Mar 2025 at 3:18PM
In Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar" from 1599 a fortune teller warns "Beware the idea of March".
Many years later, in 1957, the residents of Hinckley, Ohio began celebrating the annual return of buzzards on "Buzzard Day".
In 1974 radio station WMMS 100.7 FM changed its mushroom logo

to the buzzard

This was not, however related to Hinckley's "Buzzard Day" at the time.
The Buzzard ruled the waves when I was an adolescent.
(#5674324) Re: Buzzer day?
Posted by Jools on 15 Mar 2025 at 5:09AM
you really need your eyes checked
buzzer-D
(#5674291) Buzzer day?
Posted by rabbitoid on 15 Mar 2025 at 2:18AM
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(#5671164) Losar
Posted by fatdaddy on 28 Feb 2025 at 4:18AM
Today is the beginning of the Tibetan New Year celebration. It is a day for preparation. Tomorrow is the Tibetan New Year Eve with the New Year on 02 March.
This New Year 2152 is a female year with wood and the snake as its element and animal.
The next Losar will begin on 18 Feb 2026.
(#5665416) Re: Black History Month
Posted by fatdaddy on 3 Feb 2025 at 7:23AM
?
(#5665372) Black History Month
Posted by Jools on 3 Feb 2025 at 3:40AM
Possibly the last time we will see this Sad
Unless it's already been cancelled.
(#5661911) Re: Confusion day for French speakers
Posted by Jools on 20 Jan 2025 at 3:56AM
It's actually even more confusing

While in English, the term penguin is generally used for birds living in the northern and southern hemispheres, in French, we use the terms manchot (for penguins from the southern hemisphere) and pingouin (for penguins from the northern hemisphere, which are also known in English as auks)

Which is fine, except the only (English) penguin living in the northern hemisphere (just north of equator) is the Galápagos penguin.
Also all auks (apart from the extinct great auk) can fly.
So French oenguins can fly and English ones can't Puzzled
(#5661895) Confusion day for French speakers
Posted by rabbitoid on 20 Jan 2025 at 2:30AM
In official French, the English Penguin is called Manchot ("missing arm").

The confusion is because in French there is a word Pingouin, which for some mysterious reason refers to The bird called in English Razorbill.

Of course, in this era French is heavily contaminated by English so people tend to refer to the Antarctic birds as Pingouins which is always good for making your purists and teachers scream in fury.
(#5659227) Re: Earth rotation day
Posted by fatdaddy on 8 Jan 2025 at 6:14PM
I'm glad we still rotate on our axis as well as revolve around the Sun and that our Solar System still revolves around The Milky Way's black hole. I think we're heading towards M31 as well and will reach it when we're about twice as old as we are now.
(#5659026) Re: Earth rotation day
Posted by Jools on 8 Jan 2025 at 8:19AM
Indeed, I was thinking the same. However:

January 8 is Earth’s Rotation Day. The day commemorates when French Physicist, Leon Foucault, demonstrated the Earth rotates on its axis in 1851.

To prove his theory, Foucault suspended a lead-filled brass sphere, now called the Foucault Pendulum from the top of the Pantheon in Paris.

He showed that the plane of the swing of the pendulum rotated relative to the Earth’s rotation. You can now see the Foucault Pendulum demonstrating the rotation of the Earth in science museums around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum
(#5659006) Earth rotation day
Posted by rabbitoid on 8 Jan 2025 at 5:42AM
Because on all the other days the earth stands still.
Gort, klaatu barada nikto!
(#5635840) Re: Jeez. A year gone already?
Posted by Lil Red on 5 Oct 2024 at 5:42PM
I miss her

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