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Tell HN: There will be a Blue moon in December
- wglb 17y agoExcept in Australia and Asia.
- danhak 17y agoOn New Year's Eve, no less! How...poetic. Now we've just to figure out what it all means.
- benatkin 17y agoYeah. Also, for glasses, I think we should just wear 2009 glasses and take them off in celebration and toss them high in the air to ring in the new year, instead of wearing a "1" on our noses.
- pmjordan 17y agoIt means our subdivision of a year into months of 28-31 days is quite arbitrary and purely historical.
- chanux 17y agoApparently a blue moon comes once in a blue moon :)
- joss82 17y agoI was so disappointed to learn that a blue moon is not actually blue.
- aw3c2 17y agoOnly your comment made me realise that. And I was already excited about new year with a nice little astro-gimmick.
- frankus 17y agoThe Straight Dope covered this awhile back: The "two full moons in a month" definition is recent and somewhat bogus, like the bit about the seasons officially starting on the solstices and equinoxes. Originally "once in a blue moon" meant "pretty much never", and the modern definition stems from an error made writing a question/answer for Trivial Pursuit. Full article: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/162/is-there-ever-really-a-blue-moon http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/162/is-there-ever-r...