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Location: SoCal | I just looked at my OFC calendar and realized that history is being made as Good Friday is on a Saturday this year..... |
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Location: south east Michigan | We Ovationists are a progressive & inovative type of group. |
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| Either that or the 10,000 posts and a new name could be signes of the apocalypse.
I wonder if I will be able to keep my guitar when it comes?
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Easter this year is Sunday March 23, 2008.
As you may know, Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20).
This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
Based on the above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) but that is pretty rare.
This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier!
Here's the facts:
The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!
Did someone mention Good Friday? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The calculation for Easter is even more involved than that, according to something I just read this morning and didn't understand. Apparently they miscalculated when the first full moon of Spring would be, but they stayed with the old schedule. |
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Location: big island | to quote an old chicago song, "does anybody really know what time it is?" (does anybody really care?) |
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Location: big island | moody...the ever observant p.i.
he's right though. good friday is on a saturday this year. i'm gonna hafta inform my church about this. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | 2ifbyC , ..I took ye for a punk -kid of seventeen ,who did n`t know his E -string from his E -string ( No -Offence meant ) , what`s with all the knowledge ..??..( Easter to me , is something with painting eggs for my kids )
Vic
..now I`m the one who `s flabbergasted , ..does not happen easy.. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | 2ifbyC , ..I took ye for a punk -kid of seventeen ,who did n`t know his E -string from his E -string ( No -Offence meant ) , what`s with all the knowledge ..??..( Easter to me , is something with painting eggs for my kids ) :)
Vic
..now I`m the one who `s flabbergasted , ..does not happen easy.. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | They screwed up EVERYTHING when they messed with Daylight Savings Time!!! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Moody P I: Sorry , did not mean to Hi -jack yer thread...
Vic
...at least Good Friday I know of.. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Did you also know that the Bishops in Ireland moved St. Patricks day this year because it coincides with holy week. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | The clocks will all run backwards.
All the sheep will have two heads.
And Thursday night and Friday will be on Tuesday night instead
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | :confused:
..only appropriate that I am confused, seeing that I have reached 1/4 of tha posts that Witko had his first time...or was that the second time around? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Easter is just one of the Sundays in March or April in my monthly book that has Easter written on it. Usually pretty easy to get tee times since many don't play that day. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | All I've seen on the calendar is the pics. Kind of like when one of the roommates in college had a Playboy calendar and we never paid any attention to the dates. You mean you can use that as a calendar? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by HumblePie aka Solid Top: 2ifbyC , ..I took ye for a punk -kid of seventeen You're only off by 44 years! :p
( No -Offence meant ) Not much offense taken... ;)
what`s with all the knowledge ..?? After 20 years in the US Air Force and another 21 in the industrial/instrumentation/electronics/automation field I guess I've demonstrated an ability to learn. :D
..now I`m the one who `s flabbergasted , ..does not happen easy.. ...hence the moniker 'HumblePie'! ;) |
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Location: NJ | ". . Kind of like when one of the roommates in college had a Playboy calendar and we never paid any attention to the dates. . ."
You obviously didn't have Moody as a room-mate . . |
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Location: Jet City | I think 2ifbyC became enlightened at the same time he became a UKII owner.
Coincidence? I think not. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | 2ifbyC : Thank You for takin`it up well , I really did n`t mean anything , and , may I add , it`s GOOD to meet a fellow Technician :)
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Moody P I : ..again , I did not mean to Hi -jack yer thread , ...
Vic
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by HumblePie aka Solid Top:
...phew.. (chuckle...) :D |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Moody used to date Playmates!?!?!
  
Does the wife know? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Ok you guys... I now have Ozzie Fudd stuck in my head.. thanks a lot... |
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Location: Jet City | Kill da wabbit |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Damon67:
Kill da wabbit Keeel Da Wabbit? :eek: |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Oh my gawd, I'll never get to sleep tonight!
Thanx a lot, NOT!! :eek: :D |
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Location: Portland, OR | This gets dangerously close to religious intercourse, which I believe is anathema, so I would only observe that Between Holy Week and St. Pat's Day, I pick St. Pat's. Up the Republic! |
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Location: NJ | ". . Moody used to date Playmates!?!?! . ."
Yeah, . . but they were all "Left-Handed Dates" . . . |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Well on looking at the OFC calendar I just assumed you were taking us Aussies into account and being very thoughtful.
When its Friday there its Saturday here.
Hey fillhixx where did you get those emoticons
..still am madly in love with paris..
Vic, Do you mean the Hilton variety? :eek:
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Keeel Da Wabbit?
Now that's cool |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Nothing personal Waskel :D |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Isn't every Friday a good Friday ??? |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Yeah Dave, every day above ground is a great day. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Nothing personal Waskel :D Sure, that's what Elmer always says. Then out comes the shotgun, and off we go.
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
Did you also know that the Bishops in Ireland moved St. Patricks day this year because it coincides with holy week. Did they? They never told us! Of course anyone who's anyone spends Paddy's day in the US, maybe they're planning to feck off over there and leave us here. Our leader has to go there to present your leader with a bowl of sham... |
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Location: big island | are "rabbit season" and "wabbit season" the same thing? |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Hey Wabbit, how do you do the "originally posted by" then quote
You should add that to your instructions about adding a pic.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Hey Wabbit, how do you do the "originally posted by" then quote Just click on the little quotation marks to the right of the edit icon above a post you want to quote. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Moody got the "Aussie Edition"
good friday is saturday there... |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Tam O Sham?? |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Originally posted by AussieJames:
Hey Wabbit, how do you do the "originally posted by" then quote Just click on the little quotation marks to the right of the edit icon above a post you want to quote. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by lanaki:
are "rabbit season" and "wabbit season" the same thing? No, but "Rabbit Season" & "Duck Season" might be...
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Moody got the "Aussie Edition"
good friday is saturday there... So did I lol :D |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Thanks John |
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Location: closely held secret | No prob, James. Glad to help. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Hey fillhixx where did you get those emoticons Absolute Punk
Smiley list
are two sites. There's lot's more, but this is enough for me, a man of simple tastes....
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Hey fillhixx where did you get those emoticons
Try here and here and here! |
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Good Friday......