michaeld5
Okay, but where are you going to find an amputee to look at whenever you need to know.

My thoughts exactly michaeld5

Hot and old...

Michaeld: I hadn't thought of that since I was a child. Now I just remember how many days in each month.

My FSU student planner shows October having 30 days. No Halloween for me. :(

But November 3rd is Sunday AND Monday to, you know, get things back in order.

30 days hath September, April, June, and November.
All the rest have 31, except February alone.
Which has 28 days it's clear, and 29 in each leap year.

That rhyme was printed on the back of every single workbook I had from Grade kindergarten through Grade 8. Along with the multiplication tables, imperial to metric conversions, the national anthem, and a few other things I can't recall right now.

It's creepy that I will never be able to forget it. This is the kind of hardwired information that stops me from remembering new stuff.

This isn't a script for the 18th season of "Columbo". Hell, this isn't even a job for Encyclopedia Brown. It's more like, "How did Slylock Fox know that Count Weirdly didn't have insurance?"

30 days hath September, April, June and November
When short February comes, all the rest have 31.

Thats the way I learned it....back when we brought firewood for tuition...

February 30 and 31, 2008 were added to the calendar by President Bush in order to extend his term.

Seasons I'v Withered: My thoughts exactly michaeld5

My school taught the 'poem', but I was flipping through a math book and I thought "hey, what's this cool knuckle thing?". I never again paid attention to the poem.

You can just imagine with a glaring mistake like that, how bad the insurance card must have looked.

I was most disturbed by this.

Do the British really need that kind of advice?

- Herself -

We're old...

(great headline subby , BTW)

My birthday is February 29th. You bet your a55 I know how many days that month has each year.

/I celebrate my unbirthday on the 28th most years

Fabric_Man: My birthday is February 29th. You bet your a55 I know how many days that month has each year.

Good thing you weren't sent into indentured servitude by a deaf aunt.

/a Paradox?

I was just talking about that poem to my boyfriend the other day. He said he'd never heard it before. I asked how do you remember how many days are in what month? he said I usually don't...

Thirty days hath Septober
April, June, and no wonder
All the rest have peanut butter
Except Grandma, and she can't ride a bike anyway.

This is the rhyme my father taught me to remember days and months.
It probably explains quite a bit about me.

michaeld5

Thats the only way I've ever been able to remember it. It doesn't matter how many times I've tried, I can't keep that info in my head without resorting to the knuckles. Weird how some information sticks and other info seems as slippery as teflon.

/Why can I still remember 80s sitcom themes so clearly???

dahmers love zombie: Thirty days hath Septober
April, June, and no wonder
All the rest have peanut butter
Except Grandma, and she can't ride a bike anyway.

This is the rhyme my father taught me to remember days and months.
It probably explains quite a bit about me.

Thanks, I needed that.

I also need to remember to put the coffee down before farking...

Richard Saunders: We're old...

Yeah well I knew it was all downhill when I turned 26 earlier this year.

/checking for kids on her lawn
/going back to my knitting
/no really I have to finish this scarf before it gets really cold.

The knuckle thing makes more sense. It's easier to remember patterns than poems comprised of similar sounding words.
/don't actually have to look at my knuckles to do it
//Always fun to watch business majors trying to recite that drivel before resorting to their planners in meetings.
///slashies of the world unite!

Georgos: This isn't a script for the 18th season of "Columbo". Hell, this isn't even a job for Encyclopedia Brown. It's more like, "How did Slylock Fox know that Count Weirdly didn't have insurance?"

That's amazing! I came in to comment that Encyclopedia Brown cracked a similar case once because the crook had written "June 31" on a check. At least if my memory isn't faulty after 25 years...

/Methinks E.B. also foiled a crook who forged a letter with a July 4 postmark...

Just yesterday at Jiffy Lube, they put on the little tag in the corner of the window that the next oil change should be done on 2-30-09.

ko_kyi: Fabric_Man: My birthday is February 29th. You bet your a55 I know how many days that month has each year.

Good thing you weren't sent into indentured servitude by a deaf aunt.

/a Paradox?

They only remind you of the fact and leave the rest to your sense of Duty!

It is I, LeClerc!

I hate that mnemonic.

Never been able to use it. Just won't stick. I'd say, "how many days are in X month?" as an 8-year-old and get that damn thing repeated back to me in response. Thanks. So... April... uh, May? June? 30 days hath? uh, 31 days hath? Fark, I've forgotten it already. Thanks a farking lot.

This reminds me of one of my favorite help desk tickets, where a manager filed an "urgent incident" because she couldn't change the date to Feb 31 on backdated entries to the system.

It was funny enough that it got to me through the help desk, whose job it is to catch these sort of things, but what made it great is that her boss backed her up saying that it was an unresolved urgent incident despite my pulling out a calendar and showing that there was no such date.

Woodruff's defence barrister said he should be given credit for admitting the forgery.

Wrong. He should be given a good swift kick in the balls. I thought only America had idiots in the legal profession. Must be universal.

Fabric_Man: My birthday is February 29th. You bet your a55 I know how many days that month has each year.

/I celebrate my unbirthday on the 28th most years

Two questions leapers always get are:

1) What day do you celebrate your birthday?

2) How old are you?

It's especially fun watching grown adults do basic math in their head.

/Finally turned seven this year.
//I'll get my driver's license eventually.
///*rimshot*

when i am emperor, we shall have a new calendar.

28 days in each of the 13 months.
1) January
2) February
3) March
4) April
5) May
6) June
7) September (these 4 now have names that make sense!)
8) October
9) November
10) December
11) July
12) August
13) Farkwelluary

For an entire year, the 1st of the month will be a Monday. Some will want to make the 365th day be Farkwelluary 29th (and leap year, the 30th) but, I decree that they will have the next day of the week, but no month / day. They will be national holidays. (nothing gets done on new year's eve or day as it is, may as well just expand on that.)

The next year will start on a new day of the week. People will need a little time to convert, but it should go easy, except on people born jan 1 through 28, as they will be the lucky bastards who don't need to convert their birthday.

Rickerkioz: Fabric_Man: My birthday is February 29th. You bet your a55 I know how many days that month has each year.

/Finally turned seven this year.
//I'll get my driver's license eventually.
///*rimshot*

It must be a bummer having to wait 84 human years before you can have a beer.

/Maybe you can get the grandkids to buy for you.

FAILbruary.

Rickerkioz: Fabric_Man: My birthday is February 29th. You bet your a55 I know how many days that month has each year.

/I celebrate my unbirthday on the 28th most years

Two questions leapers always get are:

A third question pops into my mind: What the hell kind of Hello Kitty forums do you hang out on that you have to mask the word "ass?"

We need a metric system for time

Worst story EVER!

TFA:
Chris Woodruff used his computer printer to create his own insurance certificate when he was stopped by police but made a basic error with the date.

Must be pretty nice to have a printer in the car. The story then goes on to say he produced the forgery to bring to court... not to give the cops when he was pulled over.

He said the soldier needed a licence [sp] because his wife is due to have a baby and he needed to be taken to hospital for check ups.

I know the pregnancy can stress out the guy too.. but I think the lady is the one in need of checkups.

/that's some great journalism work there Lou.

This cop is now qualified to work for LAPD

That guy is so stupid - he should have done that AFTER he was a cop. Then there wouldn't be any problem.

I generally skip Feburary altogether

Lousy Smarch Weather....

/Also not going to touch Willy

Fabric_Man: My birthday is February 29th. You bet your a55 I know how many days that month has each year.

/I celebrate my unbirthday on the 28th most years

My birthday is March 1st, so I've also been very aware of Leap Years. Really pissed me off when I was a kid, not so much now.

WTF?

I think it's about time we caught up with the rest of Europe and decimalise years.

dahmers love zombie: Thirty days hath Septober
April, June, and no wonder
All the rest have peanut butter
Except Grandma, and she can't ride a bike anyway.

This is the rhyme my father taught me to remember days and months.
It probably explains quite a bit about me.

I came in to say similarly, the version my parents taught me:

Thirty days has Septober, April, June and NoWonder.
All the rest have peanut butter,
Except for my Grandmother; she has a little red tricycle.

Thirty days hath..
BUY A farkING CALENDER!

You take a greasy whore and a rollin' dance floor
You know you're jailhouse-bound

I once experienced Feb 30th, do you know how?

Crossed the international dateline while in the Navy coming back to the states from overseas deployment. The actual date that was repeated was Feb. 18th if I remember correctly but it made for a 30 day month since it was a leap year

Burchill: I think it's about time we caught up with the rest of Europe and decimalise years.

I say we forgo numbered years altogether and start letting companies bid on what to call the year.

Year of the Yushiatyo 2007 mimetic-resolution-cartridge-view-motherboard-easy-to-install-upgrade for Infernatron/Interlace TP systems for home, office, or mobile, anyone?

Lousy Smarch weather.

/Weather hot enough for linking
//Do not touch Willie
///Good advice