Things you were shockingly old when you learned

xxxpost Someone noted upthread that fingers work just as well. Look at your hands, palms down. Pinky finger of yr left hand is January (31 days). Space between pinky and ring is February (less than 31 days). Ring finger is March (31 days). Treat your thumbs as if they were one contiguous finger with no space between (September and October, both 31 days). Continue until you run out of months.

This is one of those things that would take like four seconds to demonstrate irl but is a huge PITA to describe with words.

If you don't mind I'll stick to the rhyme.

I do mind, very much so.

Maybe I should compose a rhyme for my trick to help with its popularity.

September and October, both 31 days

The rhyme wins out.

but August has 31 days and September has 30

xp

30 days have September, April June and November
All the rest have 31
So put away your knuckles son
Oh yeah, there's February too
Figure it out - I ain't spoonfeeding you

Anyway I came here to post that I was shockingly old to discover that the French were still executing people by guillotine as late as 1977.

― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, October 27, 2020 10:39 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they should bring this back

https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/16/84/1996671609-messed_up.gif

If nothing else, I've demonstrated today why I need a mnemonic to remember the number of days in a given month.

The term "alley-oop" was used in football before it was used in basketball.

i'm sorry that i messed things up
and I'm sorry that sorry is never enough
-Richard Marx

lol

30 days have September, April, June, and November
All the rest are too hard to remember,
Eeny meanie miney mo,
January has 20 and March also,
if they holler give them more days,
subtracting them from February's 38
my mother told me to distribute the rest of the days evenly
so May and July and August and December each get 31

I use the knuckle thing still!

@chonnye I use this knuckle counting trick if I'm unsure! Months on knuckles are 31 and ones between are 30. Or Feb. pic.twitter.com/aO5gst9fZb

— @DerekTheDuck (@DerekTheDuck) March 31, 2016

reminds me of teh time when I was in a church musical called THE BACKYARD GANG and the cast was struggling with singing the lyric, which was "la-di-da-di-da-di-da-di-da-di-di", and so instead of telling the one or two dumb people "it's literally just la-di-da-di over and over, with two dis" at the end, the idiot changed it to "la-di-di-di-da-di-di-di-da-di-da" and not only was that harder to remember, but now it no longer rhymed with the next bar, which ended in "Happily".

burned her house down *emotionally*

Here's my mnemonic for how many days in a month: OSJJLAAFCTIPOIYP

o

sweet

jeebus

just

look

at

a

fucking

calendar.

there

is

probably

one

in

your

pocket

i'm wearing fuckin cargo pants i can't fit the 1990 SI swimsuit calendar in my fuckin pocket

i think the benefit of the rhyme is you don't have to stare at your upraised knuckles like a crazy person

my knuckles say LOVE

well, LOEV...my tattoo artist was an idiot

my arms say
LUV
THEM

My knuckles say EARL GREY... not super tough, I know.

Here's my mnemonic for how many days in a month: OSJJLAAFCTIPOIYP

Thank u YMP, this is helpful, particularly since you managed to create a mnemonic using a Sigur Rós song title.

Monthly mnemonic

January febuary march april may june jason derulo pic.twitter.com/VXpds5Uftb

— 𝐜𝐡𝐮—추🌻| (@TAECHURRY) September 29, 2020

I have no fucking idea how people find the knuckle or finger thing useful but ironically it can never remember what 'index finger' is and have to go through a process of elimination is because I know where a ring is worn and I know what a middle is.

it’s the one that indicates

https://youtu.be/w8Oxg9zPUBE

Great url

The index finger (also referred to as forefinger, first finger, pointer finger, trigger finger, digitus secundus, digitus II, and many other terms) is the second finger of a human hand.

Wikipedia comes good again. DIGITUS II it is for me from now on.

xpost lol, wait, there's a method of figuring out the number of days in a month by counting your pubes?

one extremely long, world-record length, greasy, lone day, in isolation and surrounded by smooth silky skin, has october.

seems kinda difficult to remember, better to go with the knuckles

The annual 12 knuckle shuffle

DIGITUS II: Digital Boogaloo

DIGITUS II: The Refingering

DIGITUS II: Return of the Pointer

30 pubes have September
April June and November
All the rest are bushy af

Monthly mnemonic

🐦[January febuary march april may june jason derulo pic.twitter.com/VXpds5Uftb🕸
— 𝐜𝐡𝐮—추🌻| (@TAECHURRY) September 29, 2020🕸]🐦

I say "Thirty days *hath* September..." for some reason, I have no idea why.

Ha yeah i got that olde tymey vibe in my mnemonic too

Wasn't until a month or so ago that it dawned on me that the Lincoln Project was not an organization of gay GOP members.

That group, of course, are known as Log Cabin Republicans.

https://i.imgur.com/Y8Trqg6.jpg

^^ Image needed more drop shadow, imo.

Forsooth, sirrah, I also hath ye olde quaintie language in my mnemonic. Zounds!

Verily, I still sayeth unto ye, why not just look at yr damn phone?

Fie on thee, wretched soul, for thou reliest too kindly upon thine hell-rectangle.

Wait,

The index finger (also referred to as [...] first finger, [...]) is the second finger of a human hand.

If you seek the months that 30 days contain
September, April, June, and November would be the expected refrain
If you wish to know those with 31
That's too many questions
Jethro, get my gun

Good un

That it's one idea jibes with another, it doesn't jive. Though I think I sometimes say 'chimes with' anyway.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jive-jibe-gibe

Garbled sentence, sorry. That jibes with my general state of mind.

I feel like I've seen "jives with" used in real publications in recent years. Has it somehow become acceptable?