Happy New Year

[MrCPFG]

May we all be fortunate to gain the wisdome we need to improve ourselves and those around us.

MrCPFG

[CryptoPlankton]

May we all be fortunate to gain the wisdome we need to improve ourselves and those around us.

MrCPFG

Verily, with age cometh ye olde wisdome.

Binke!

[PinkDalek]

What's this board all about?

I've been Binking in the U S of A.

I must have been L@ST.

[MrCPFG]

What's this board all about?

I've been Binking in the U S of A.

I must have been L@ST.

Does anyone know what this board is about?

I've been considering things, having been l@st for a while.

MrCPFG

[AleisterCrowley]

Oddly enough, I fitted my Wis with a dome just before Christmas, and it seemed to work well even down below freezing.

[PinkDalek]

Oddly enough, I fitted my Wis with a dome just before Christmas, and it seemed to work well even down below freezing.

Not a language with which I am familiar.

Salopian perchance?



Although I can see wis...dome.

[AleisterCrowley]

Floreat Salopia!
Down with Slough, etc etc

[PinkDalek]

I prefer Shropshire FA!

[Bink333]

This board has been placed within Any Other Business.

This is despite the fact that this board is not a business, and is not about a business, nor indeed is it about doing the business.

A Happy New Year thread on this board should rightly be considered everybody's business even if it isn't the start of their own Happy New Year because they are not using the Gregorian calender.

If you are one of the billions of people that still buy your annual Byzantine Calendar (together with the rather fetching photos of Widdy) we are currently in 7526-7527 and the year started around the same time that 1st term started in the UK. It placed the date of creation at 5509 years before the Incarnation, and was characterized by numbering the years from the calculated foundation of the world.

Its Year One, marking the supposed date of creation, was September 1, 5509 BC, to August 31, 5508 BC.

Turns out they were wrong, and we'd all look a bit silly if we were using a calendar that science has comprehensively disproved.

This New Year, perhaps we should then raise a toast to It is named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced the Gergorian Calender on Thursday 4th October 1582. The following day, was Friday October 15th, taking into account the leap year bits that hadn't been taken into account under the Julian calender.

This in turn led to rather unusual footnotes in history such as "Saint Teresa of Ávila died on October 4th. She was buried the next day, October 15."

That's the 11 days in October that never were.

1582 was the year that lasted just 354 days.

Can you imagine the chaos that would have caused with modern TV and sports schedules?

[Breelander]

...they are not using the Gregorian calender...

You make paper with a Calender - ideal for printing calendars, so I'm told.

[AleisterCrowley]

Also useful for straining sprouts etc