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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Blocking a highway with spilled cabbages sounds like something a supervillain would do. Perhaps this was done by Coleslaw Man.
Or maybe The Riddler--to be followed by an explosion at a shoe store and a fire in a sealing-wax factory. Then Batman will use the Bat-computer to figure out this is all a reference to The Walrus and The Carpenter.
Which will lead to a robbery at an oyster bar/clam bake.
Kat has a point, though, introducing rabbits as the solution to anything rarely works out well.
If life were The Simpsons, a mayonnaise truck would crash next.
Amazing!
And if Chinese Month 3 is actually the third month instead of September being the 9th month I can't criticize that system.
SERIOUSLY. That makes me pause about half the time. Stupid calendar makers!
Didn't the Roman calendar only have ten months?
Only way early on. For at least some purposes, though, the year was reckoned to start with the Spring Equinox, with February being the last month, so September was the seventh month.
There were a BUNCH of calendar reforms before Julian and some minor-ish after (before Gregorian, of course). It's super interesting - lunar calendars make so much sense for short term tracking but getting them to line up with solar calendars is way hard. Leap days, leap months, skipping months, big holidays that just don't count as part of the calendar, lost of variety in how to address the issue.
September=7, October=8, December=10--why did I not realize that until now?
Nov=9, as well.
Plus there's the two weeks that were removed in the 1700s to get things lined up (something re: George Washington, I'd have to look it up)
Before they were renamed after the Caesars, July and August were called Quintilis and Sextilis. It's a good thing that Augustus changed his name from Octavian; that would have made things really confusing for the Romans.
Pope Gregory. To correct seasonal drift.
Two weeks in a millenium is not bad. IIRC, that is why we don't have leap years in years that are divisible by 100 but not 400, to not have that particular drift.