Al_U_Card Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 nor me....did it just the other day.. :( ..and glad it was there :blink: (plus I like to sing) :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helene_t Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 but I tell you what is really scary - is the people who can tell you what day of the week Jun 15, 1702 was, for example. I've read of savants doing this. nickfsydney I had an uncle who could do that. He was otherwise quite normal. I believe the formula is not particularly difficult to learn. When my dad took astronomy exam back in 1954 one question was "what day of the week is it today and why". So I suppose anyone with a minor in astronomy could do it then, savant or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_h Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 Am I missing something ? Beyond about 10 years of age, don't most people just know how many days are in each month without the aid of a ditty or two hands? nickfsydneyI guess I'm not part of the 'most' group :blink: Really, if someone gave asked me a random month like september I wouldn't know it on top of my head lol I would need to think and revert to the knuckles..except for Jan/Feb/Dec as they are the easy ones cuz they're the exception/boundary months. but I tell you what is really scary - is the people who can tell you what day of the week Jun 15, 1702 was, for example. I've read of savants doing this. Yeah, there's an interesting documentary episode on it "Discovery Channel - Everything you need to know about the brain" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 I used the knuckle trick before I just "knew it". I never heard of a song related to this. I believe the formula is not particularly difficult to learn. When my dad took astronomy exam back in 1954 one question was "what day of the week is it today and why". So I suppose anyone with a minor in astronomy could do it then, savant or not. The formula is not THAT easy... I knew it at some point, then noticed that I never used it and that was basically the end of it. I never had much use of knowing what day January 1st, 1702 was or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycroft Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Well, okay, it's a poem not a song, for me, but still. It's a good way (like bluejak's "Happy Birthday") to count your 10-second skip pause, too (unless you can't help mouthing the words, of course). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfay Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Wow. This knuckle trick is about to change my life! GOODBYE STUPID SONG! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 I voted song. I mostly just know although if my life depended on being right then I might begin chanting Thirty days has ( No one said "hath" where I grew up) September.... It seems to me that an advantage of the poem is that I do recite actual facts, with the result that after a bit I mostly know these recited facts. If I just go January-February-... , stopping when I get to the month and then consult my knuckles, I might be less likely to get it all straight in my head. I wonder if I could get a government grant from the Department of Education to study this. You just asked this question to see how many folks you could get to actually respond, right? I feel like an idiot for doing so, but here it is. Ask and it shall be answered. Afterthought. I wonder if it depends on the age of first learning the trick. I learned Thirty days etc when I was ver very young. An age when sing-song rhyme is attractive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goobers Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Is this the song? 30 days hath September,April, June, and November.All the rest have 31--Just a minute, we’re not done!February’s the shortest one.With 28 most of the time,but in Leap Year twenty-nine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted June 26, 2008 Report Share Posted June 26, 2008 Heh. There is a fantasy role playing game called "Harnmaster", which takes place on a world called Kethira which has 12 30 day months. There, the poem goes something like: Thirty days hath September,April, June and November.All the rest have thirty, too.I can remember this. Can you? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Heh. There is a fantasy role playing game called "Harnmaster", which takes place on a world called Kethira which has 12 30 day months. There, the poem goes something like: Thirty days hath September,April, June and November.All the rest have thirty, too.I can remember this. Can you? :P The same song works on a world with 376 days in the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 What about a planet with 668 days (and a leap year in odd years and when the year number ends with 0)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 wtf 30 days hath Sept.Apr. June and Nov.When short Feb.'s doneAll the rest have 31. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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