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Man 1: Left-handed eyeglasses.
Man 2: So what did you guys come up with?
Woman: A safety-padded bowling ball
Man 3: The metric calendar
There was proposed a calendar that had thirteen months of twenty eight days with a leap year day every four years. Every month would start on the same day. The moon would have the same phase every month. It was never accepted because of the thirteen month year.
Lewis LinsonThe main reason was fundamentalists forced the US to veto it. Their doctrine, to be forced on everyone else as is the nature of all fundamentalism, would have a week with eight days and the Sabbath must be only on the seventh. Are these people prohibited from crossing the International Date Line? .While it was never mentioned as a factor, I have long suspected the calendar publishers may have had something to do with it, behind the scenes.
It’s interesting to note that a day is a real, physical thing (one rotation), the (lunar) month is a real, physical thing, and so is a year (one orbit). But a week is purely custom and/or religion.
ChukLitl Premium Member over 7 years ago
10 day weeks in 10 week months with 10 month years. So I’m 21 & they look maybe 25?
tahoeh2o over 7 years ago
How about a left-handed metric crescent wrench…
sadiedog over 7 years ago
There actually once was a metric calendar and a metric clock as well, back when America had just gained independence.
linsonl over 7 years ago
There was proposed a calendar that had thirteen months of twenty eight days with a leap year day every four years. Every month would start on the same day. The moon would have the same phase every month. It was never accepted because of the thirteen month year.
toahero over 7 years ago
The inflatable dartboard and the screen door for spacecraft.
Radish the wordsmith over 7 years ago
Things can’t be any more mixed up than they are already. September means seventh month and its placed as the ninth month on the current calendar..
ars731 over 7 years ago
The French attemp at an new calender
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
hippogriff over 7 years ago
Lewis LinsonThe main reason was fundamentalists forced the US to veto it. Their doctrine, to be forced on everyone else as is the nature of all fundamentalism, would have a week with eight days and the Sabbath must be only on the seventh. Are these people prohibited from crossing the International Date Line? .While it was never mentioned as a factor, I have long suspected the calendar publishers may have had something to do with it, behind the scenes.
Godfreydaniel over 7 years ago
It’s interesting to note that a day is a real, physical thing (one rotation), the (lunar) month is a real, physical thing, and so is a year (one orbit). But a week is purely custom and/or religion.