Friday, September 30, 2005

good as an abacus, if you ask me

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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13 comments:

  1. Unknown9/30/2005 11:27 PM

    I do that! my mom tought me-

    --maybe your mom tought you?

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  2. X10/01/2005 2:13 AM

    pretty handy.

    Pun intended?

    ---X

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  3. DCveR10/01/2005 5:16 AM

    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.

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  4. cadiz1210/01/2005 4:18 PM

    i have no idea where i picked that up.

    and X, you know it was. i'm cheesy like that.

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  5. neena maiya (guyana gyal)10/02/2005 4:11 PM

    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.

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  6. Unknown10/02/2005 7:29 PM

    ohhh- 'handy' i just got it---

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  7. Anonymous10/03/2005 9:42 AM

    I do that too! I think a teacher in grade school taught us that!

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  8. piu piu10/03/2005 5:43 PM

    i never learnt to do it...

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  9. lucasjackson710/04/2005 12:01 AM

    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.

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  10. Syar10/04/2005 1:37 AM

    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.

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  11. Andy10/04/2005 2:24 AM

    I'm with gyal... I learned that "rhyme", despite its lack of rhyming...

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  12. Anonymous10/04/2005 1:15 PM

    chiming in late, but omg...yes!
    i always rely on this method :)

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  13. Lia10/06/2005 8:14 AM

    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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