Comments on: Deliberately Inaccurate 2009 Calendar

Deliberately Inaccurate 2009 Calendar

alby — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:37:36 -0800

Deliberately Inaccurate 2009 Calendar [via]

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:41:38 -0800

Every calendar is like this to me. I have a hard time keeping track of things like my own birthday. Or what date Halloween falls on this year. What day of the week I'm on. Or even what year I am in. I don't mind though. I'm used to living this way. I imagine it's like how the colorblind think of color.

By: WPW

WPW — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:43:51 -0800

Calypso Windsmash is early this year.

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:49:27 -0800

I thought August 12th was Punch A Horse in the Face Day?

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:50:04 -0800

Friday the thirteenth falls on a Tuesday this month!

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:51:26 -0800

January 11 is Dog Day in Japan (WAN WAN WAN) February 22 is Cat Dat (Nya Nya Nya)

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:51:41 -0800

Lousy Smarch weather.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:52:31 -0800

nitsuj: Here, it's Punch A Horse in the Face Day all year! Fuck you, horses!

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:10:32 -0800

Brrr..... lousy Smarch weather

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:26:22 -0800

I owe ALongDecember a coke. And a punch in the metaphorical dick.

By: donnagirl

donnagirl — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:27:50 -0800

Did I miss something, or is this really a pdf I have to download before any of the funny is revealed?

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:28:50 -0800

Even if you download the .pdf it's not really so funny.

By: Tube

Tube — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:30:36 -0800

I see the weeks all start on Monday. Last year, I got into a conversation with a Russian pipe fitter I work with. Since my knowledge of Russian history is limited, I'm only able to bring up the names of some of the more famous Russians. I mentioned Mendeleev. He told me something I didn't know, which was that Mendeleev had been responsible for the standardization of alcohol percentages in vodka. Amazingly, my fitter friend had a Russian calendar pinned to a wood wall that celebrated a different brand of Russian vodka each month. Indeed, the weeks on this calendar all began on Monday.

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:32:56 -0800

I got a bit giddy when I noticed that November 8th is Day of the Tentacle.

By: Uppity Pigeon #2

Uppity Pigeon #2 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:33:00 -0800

"Daniel Day (Lewis)" is in no way funny. So it probably doesn't speak well of me that I found it funny.

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:33:18 -0800

(And I'm totally going to celebrate it, too.)

By: niles

niles — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:53:12 -0800

I see the weeks all start on Monday. It's a UK, Canadian, Australian, etc, thing.

By: ricochet biscuit

ricochet biscuit — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:54:56 -0800

Indeed, the weeks on this calendar all began on Monday. This is not uncommon on European calendars. A colleague in Russia sends me baroque calendars each year, which are both more entertaining and more useful than the one in the FPP (sorry, alby) in my view. The calendar (which is entirely in Russian, of course) is about four times as tall as wide and has three separate 12-month pads aligned one above the other. The top one covers December to November; the second one January through December; and the third, February through January. I gather the idea is that you use the middle one as the main one but are able to see last month and next month at a glance. What with the weeks beginning on Monday and everything indicated in Cyrillic, it is a triumph of minimal utility. Helpfully, each holiday is marked in red. I intend to take February 23 off, even if I do not fully understand why.

By: ricochet biscuit

ricochet biscuit — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:57:11 -0800

It's a UK, Canadian, Australian, etc, thing. niles, [citation needed]. I assure you, Canadian calendars start the week on Sunday.

By: Floydd

Floydd — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:03:37 -0800

I intend to take February 23 off, even if I do not fully understand why. Why, to celebrate Terminalia, of course! It's a great day to drink a lot of beer and mark your territory.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:05:16 -0800

I'm a fan of "Half-Advent," myself.

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:08:47 -0800

Well if The Lord rested on the 7th day, and Christians celebrate that as Sunday, then the week starts for them on Monday. This starting the week on Sunday is just a Jewish conspiracy.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:09:59 -0800

Pah, no calendar is complete without the month of Octember. Also: Good Friday twice? What about BAD FRIDAY? (Really, I wonder that every year. What ABOUT Bad Friday?)

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:24:38 -0800

I must be sleep deprived. My brain tells me this isn't really funny, and yet I keep laughing.

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:27:04 -0800

Early this year some colleagues and I were coming up with ridiculously unrealistic delivery dates for various part of a project we were working on. We decided most of them fell in the month of Mocktober.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:28:09 -0800

Uh... Good Friday kind of is Bad Friday, in a certain sense. It's the day we killed God. Good thing he came back! Ha ha! Ha. heh.

By: mandal

mandal — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:28:32 -0800

Also: Good Friday twice? What about BAD FRIDAY? (Really, I wonder that every year. What ABOUT Bad Friday?) Bad Friday is a floating day. It immediately precedes any Saturday that you have to work.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:32:59 -0800

There should be more Bank LOLidays.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:33:58 -0800

Where did my birthday go?!

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:38:32 -0800

Imagine the sheepish grin of amusement and relief on your best friend's face when he realizes--after missing his tax deadline, Mother's day, his son's graduation, and his wedding anniversary--that he doesn't have Alzheimer's disease after all.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:00:32 -0800

No; Daniel Day (Lewis) was in fact the only funny joke in the thing. Congratulations to you for catching it.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:08:20 -0800

I loved this. But then I'm also a big fan of those maps where every other street name is delightfully, rebelliously switched, Cut'N'Corners contact lenses with a corner cut out, Can't Touch This novelty watches that stop! HAMMERTIME at random intervals, and those hilarious condoms with the tiny fun-sized holes!

By: PlusDistance

PlusDistance — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:25:52 -0800

Good Friday twice? What about BAD FRIDAY? BAD FRIDAY CELEBRATED ON BIZARRO WORLD. (or is that NOT CELEBRATED? Damn, I could never get the grammar straight.)

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:42:12 -0800

Caturday, Smarch Threventh, 20X6

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:21:18 -0800

Lousy Smarch weather.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:35:34 -0800

Of course weeks start on Monday! Think about it - what days make up the weekend? Does it make any sense at all to have the week begin on the weekend?

By: chairish

chairish — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:36:45 -0800

I think I missed the point. Maybe I should go back to bed.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:41:43 -0800

Thank God for that calendar. I always forget when Alzheimer's Day is.

By: kanewai

kanewai — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:53:04 -0800

But Kirth, you don't put both bookends on the far side of the shelf, do you? If you did all your books on the other side would fall off. Same with the weekends. If we didn't have a weekend on both sides of the week then Monday might fall off. But since god clearly rested on the seventh day, and so many faiths believe that this is Sunday, then the only way to save the week is to make Monday a weekend. ********** I'm assuming that you all already shared the funny parts and that I don't have to actually open the pdf.

By: Dark Messiah

Dark Messiah — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:00:44 -0800

Lousy Smarch weather. Lousy echo! Lousy echo!

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:22:25 -0800

The actual Calendar of Saints are chock-full if interesting days and things to celebrate. Here's another handy reference of a very full year of saints, in case you want to take some day off as a holiday, or you're looking to name a child or pet born on a certain day. For more variety, Girls Are Pretty Forever had started naming each day, but stopped back on July 16, 2008. A friend of mine carried it on, starting with September.

By: bystander

bystander — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:45:07 -0800

It's a UK, Canadian, Australian, etc, thing. niles, [citation needed]. I assure you, Canadian calendars start the week on Sunday. Calendars in Australia start with Sunday too. Although in conversation, the week does start on Monday. This Saturday and Sunday are definitely part of "this" week.

By: longsleeves

longsleeves — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:45:41 -0800

I like how this starts off subtly to lull people into acceptance and gets wierder as the months pass. But they missed eat a tuna sandwich day and look under the couch day.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:01:17 -0800

If we didn't have a weekend on both sides of the week then Monday might fall off. Like that's a bad thing?

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:51:49 -0800

It's always Peripheral Equinox.

By: niles

niles — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:44:03 -0800

Well, Wikipedia said "most". You two obviously buy your calendars at the wrong stores.

By: jb

jb — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:36:49 -0800

It's a British calendar - you can tell because they bother to specify that Thanksgiving (July 4) is in the US & Canada (Americans always leave that out, and never mention Canada), have Whit Sunday as a holiday and call a bank holiday a bank holiday (does anyone else?), and there is also a joke about Wales, and only the Brits even remember to make jokes about Wales.

By: lou

lou — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:14:31 -0800

When is Daniel Day (Kim)?

By: rokusan

rokusan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:33:01 -0800

People who put Sunday as the first day in a calendar understand neither Genesis nor the concept of a "weekend." Monday first makes more sense and is easier to use, IME.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:26:00 -0800

My calendars have always started with a Monday. Admittedly, so far I have been limited to student diaries, but I expect all calendars I use in the future to start on a Monday as well. How else are you supposed to scrawl BEACH or SOCCER FINALS or SLEEP across the whole weekend? Put half on one page and half on the next? Rubbish.

By: marmaduke_yaverland

marmaduke_yaverland — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:28:12 -0800

One word: meh.

By: minifigs

minifigs — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:13:19 -0800

I was hating it until I got to September 25th: Soup of the Day (Tomato and Basil). Is there a soup of the day calender? There should be.

By: zorrine

zorrine — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:23:29 -0800

I know this is a late comment, but my work schedule at Starbucks is from Monday to Sunday, so something about whoever wrote that scheduling software.

By: jenfullmoon

jenfullmoon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:44:59 -0800

I just hung that up in public. I bet nobody notices it all year, somehow.

By: MtDewd

MtDewd — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:18:20 -0800

I hung one up in my office area on Monday. On Tuesday, my boss was looking at it to plan her vacation. Hope she double-checks...