Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
I'm not very creative, so I kind of don't understand how anything gets anything other than the most obvious name! "Which mountain?" "You know, the tall one?"
One of the Discworld novels has a bit about explorers grabbing natives by the arm and demanding to know the names of things so they can fill in the empty bits on their maps, leading to many landmarks with names that translate to "A Mountain, I Don't Know, What?"
Your Finger You Fool is my favorite. I have been looking for a way to drop that into this conversation.
I gotta, say, now that I know a little more about Romulus's calendar I kinda like the idea of just not counting the winter months. Get to December and then, whatever, we'll care what month and day it is again in the Spring. I can see the value in that.
I gotta, say, now that I know a little more about Romulus's calendar I kinda like the idea of just not counting the winter months.
As you noted, it was commonplace in the Middle Ages to have open revelry at times over the winter, and anything you did during that space Did Not Count because it was off the calendar. You see some of that hanging over into Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, but commonly there were all kinds of satirical plays that mocked the local nobles openly during that stretch and It Didn't Count. Plus everybody having sex and not too much concern about parentage down the line.
That's why there were riots when the calendar was closed up and those Festival days were eliminated.
That's why there were riots when the calendar was closed up and those Festival days were eliminated.
The Middle Ages were a lot more pleasant than a lot of people realize.
Heh. One of my customers just hired a new Buyer - it is amusing me much more than it should that my two contacts at this company are now Jesus and Christian.
On the flip side, we've got a bunch of new hires in our department, the most recent of whose last names are: Good, Bright, Smart. I'm starting to wonder how our HR group is sourcing these people.
Better than Bad, Dim, and Dumb.
Or Howard, Fine, and Howard.
That's awesome, brenda.
Y'all would never hire me (scared off).