i was trying to figure out how many days there were in September but was in a hurry and too lazy to look it up.
so i put my closed fists fingers-down and looked at the up/down of my knuckles:
JAN feb MAR apr MAY june JULY
AUG sept OCT nov DEC
(caps: 31 days, non-caps: fewer)
no idea where i heard this, but i think it was sometime in the '80s.
pretty handy.
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I do that! my mom tought me-
--maybe your mom tought you?
pretty handy.
Pun intended?
---X
Hehehehe dad taught me that even before I went to school. I think everybody uses that whenever they are not sure how many days a month has.
i have no idea where i picked that up.
and X, you know it was. i'm cheesy like that.
There's a little rhyme we learnt in school:
30 days hath September,
April, June and November,
All the rest have 31
Except February alone,
Which hath but 28 days,
And 29 in each leap year.
I can't figure out the handy one :-(
It sounds neat.
ohhh- 'handy' i just got it---
I do that too! I think a teacher in grade school taught us that!
i never learnt to do it...
holy crap! that's like crazy mayan or incan code or something.
perhaps you could use your skills for evil?
i've got a trip to vegas awaiting your clever counting tactics.
I just got the pun. LOL. thanks, X.
I use G.G's method more often than I use the knuckle method. but both are pretty nifty to use. I think a school mate taught me the knuckle thing.
I'm with gyal... I learned that "rhyme", despite its lack of rhyming...
chiming in late, but omg...yes!
i always rely on this method :)
I learned that trick too.
I was going to post the "30 days hath . . " rhyme, but I was beaten to it. My version is shorter, though - you don't have all that stuff about February; the fourth line is just "Except for the second one", and you're expected to know about the tricky things with February changing all on your ownsome.
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