• Mr Horne (unregistered) in reply to LightStyx
    LightStyx:
    Thief^:
    LightStyx:
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    Am I really the only one that learned that little poem in grade school about the number of days in the months?

    30 days has September, June and November Most of the rest have 31 And February’s great with 28 And Leap Year’s February’s fine with 29 That means April is all that's left Just remember, it's a WTF.

    Do believe it is

    Thirty days hath September, June, and November: Of twenty eight is but one, And all the rest are thirty one. Of course Leap year comes and stays, Every four years got it right, And twenty eight is twenty nine. Except for April who's just f$#ked up in its self

    The poem I learned went more like: Thirty days hath September April, June, and November All the rest have thirty-one Except February alone Which hath twenty-eight days clear And twenty-nine each leap year Except on my watch Which thinks every month is 31

    I think that's an older version (except the last two lines obviously), as I've seen "clear" replaced by "most years", which makes more sense.

    Though god damn, check out the Wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_days_hath_September There seems to be a lot of variations, most of them poor copies of others...

    Here's the perfect one

    Thirty days hath Octember April, June, and no wonder All the rest have peanut butter Except my grandmother--she has a red tricycle

    I think Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh (an early British Radio Comedy) used this (slightly incorrect) one:

    30 Days Hat November, April, May... and June Definitely does....

  • taiki (unregistered)

    Lousy Smarch weather...

  • asdfgfs (unregistered)

    I don't think the Kaspersky one is a WTF at all.

    The discount value is null and it's subject to availability - essentially, if you're not eligible for the discount or they mess up, they can't be sued for the difference nor requested to make up for the value of the discount.

  • (cs) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    Am I really the only one that learned that little poem in grade school about the number of days in the months?

    What's wrong with being super-smart and counting the lengths of the months on one's finger knuckles and the spaces between them?

    Well just for starters, it's a bit like saying
    What's wrong with being super-smart and mouthing the words out loud to yourself while you read?
  • bobince (unregistered)

    That Google ad's not a mistake, it's a job offer. You just have to solve the fun puzzle of decoding the text, using only the kerning.

  • (cs) in reply to Mr Horne
    Mr Horne:
    LightStyx:
    Thief^:
    LightStyx:
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    Am I really the only one that learned that little poem in grade school about the number of days in the months?

    30 days has September, June and November Most of the rest have 31 And February’s great with 28 And Leap Year’s February’s fine with 29 That means April is all that's left Just remember, it's a WTF.

    Do believe it is

    Thirty days hath September, June, and November: Of twenty eight is but one, And all the rest are thirty one. Of course Leap year comes and stays, Every four years got it right, And twenty eight is twenty nine. Except for April who's just f$#ked up in its self

    The poem I learned went more like: Thirty days hath September April, June, and November All the rest have thirty-one Except February alone Which hath twenty-eight days clear And twenty-nine each leap year Except on my watch Which thinks every month is 31

    I think that's an older version (except the last two lines obviously), as I've seen "clear" replaced by "most years", which makes more sense.

    Though god damn, check out the Wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_days_hath_September There seems to be a lot of variations, most of them poor copies of others...

    Here's the perfect one

    Thirty days hath Octember April, June, and no wonder All the rest have peanut butter Except my grandmother--she has a red tricycle

    I think Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh (an early British Radio Comedy) used this (slightly incorrect) one:

    30 Days Hat November, April, May... and June Definitely does....

    I thought it was:

    Thirty days? How dare you! That's a bit bleedin' much for a minor drunk and disorderly and a bit of friday night fighting with the coppers innit? Oi magistrate! I know where you bloody live you bastard! Get off me .... I'll have the lot of you ... <dragged away>

  • (cs) in reply to bobince
    bobince:
    That Google ad's not a mistake, it's a job offer. You just have to solve the fun puzzle of decoding the text, using only the kerning.
    Yeh. Then if you get the job, they have you sit around all day running javascript testcases by hand, and maybe you get to program some C or C++ - any month now!

    Never mind the "geek appeal" of twisted logic puzzles and obtuse syntax to lure in candidates with perks in their "laid back yet professional" environment. It's as hollow as their promises of catered lunch wishes and every-day-is-casual-day dreams. The advertisement made one thing perfectly clear - This is a WTF.

  • BillyBob (unregistered)

    That calendar is perfectly valid. It's a developer's calendar.

    I certainly know that in some months I relive the same day over and over again - and as far as estimations go, this is definitely valid, if the 26th of April happens 3 times, it counts as 1 day!

  • iToad (unregistered)

    I never could remember that stupid poem. Instead, I use the knuckle method to remember days in a month. Knuckle Method.

    Actually, the real WTF is buying cheap 2009 calendars. If you want to really save money, buy 2008 calendars. I've heard that 2007 calendars are even cheaper.

  • (cs) in reply to iToad
    iToad:
    Actually, the real WTF is buying cheap 2009 calendars. If you want to really save money, buy 2008 calendars. I've heard that 2007 calendars are even cheaper.

    Of course, buying only one calendar is cheaper still.

  • a/c (unregistered) in reply to Nobody You Know
    Nobody You Know:
    Note the staple in the middle of the calendar page. My guess is that if you looked at the back side of that sheet of paper, you'd see March. That sheet should have been folded with March on the inside, but it was folded and inserted backwards.

    You can see some of the dates through the page and they indeed match up with March 2009. I'm not even sure that the page was inserted backwards. It's hard to tell with the low-resolution photo, but I think this is just one page out of the booklet, face down. If you follow the line beneath the day names, it looks like the fold is actually convex. The double-page March calendar would correctly be inside the fold.

  • (cs) in reply to iruka
    iruka:
    that calendar has two wtf's of its own
    So it turns out, every week has a WTF, starting with Hump Day and ending with the weekend.
  • Anon (unregistered)

    Which months have 30 days? All of them (except February). Just note that some months have more than 30 days.

  • Cbuttius (unregistered) in reply to The Hacker
    The Hacker:
    The Real WTF is using Kaspersky Antivirus, when there are better free software from Avast, AVG etc...

    Really, what makes you think they are better? I've been through various anti-virus software and I now use Kaspersky because it actually seems to work the best, and it's not that expensive either (about £16 for all 3 of my machines).

  • Mike (unregistered)

    you shoulda noticed: it's a WTFcalendar! (just look at the days at the top: "smtWTFs")

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to The Hacker
    The Hacker:
    The Real WTF is using Kaspersky Antivirus, when there are better free software from Avast, AVG etc...
    Sorry but you win the "most obvious troll of the day" competition. You weren't even trying, were you?
  • Jay (unregistered)

    I thought the poem went:

    In March, July, October, May The Ides is on the fifteenth day The Nones the seventh And all besides Have two days less for Nones and Ides.

    Oh wait, that's how I learned it in Latin class.

  • darkmage0707077 (unregistered)

    Well, just keep your Mr. Fusion working on the Dellorium, and you won't have to worry about going Back or To The Future.

  • (cs) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    I thought the poem went:

    In March, July, October, May The Ides is on the fifteenth day The Nones the seventh And all besides Have two days less for Nones and Ides.

    Oh wait, that's how I learned it in Latin class.

    If you're still using the Julian calendar, you have bigger problems than knowing how long each month is anyway...
  • (cs) in reply to iToad
    iToad:
    I never could remember that stupid poem. Instead, I use the knuckle method to remember days in a month. Knuckle Method.

    Actually, the real WTF is buying cheap 2009 calendars. If you want to really save money, buy 2008 calendars. I've heard that 2007 calendars are even cheaper.

    Thanks for the tip! I just went out and bought a truckload of 2007 calendars. If 2007 ever comes round again, I'm quids in!
  • (cs) in reply to darkmage0707077
    darkmage0707077:
    Well, just keep your Mr. Fusion working on the Dellorium, and you won't have to worry about going Back or To The Future.
    ROFLMAO!!!
  • (cs) in reply to DaveK

    Screw all this poem junk.

    You can tell the number of days in each month (except February, you'll need to memorize it) with your knuckles.

    Make fists and put your hands together, side by side. Start counting from your little finger knuckle on the left. It's January, with 31 days. The groove between your left little finger and your ring finger is February, continue this way and you'll note that all the knuckles are 31 days, and all the grooves are 30 (or fewer) days. Don't forget to count the double-sided groove on the right of the left index finger and the left of the right index finger.

    Enjoy.

  • scruffy (unregistered) in reply to IAGuy
    IAGuy:
    Unless the calendar is from another dimension, I'm calling shenanigans. I didn't know April was between January and March and had holidays such as Lincoln's birthday and Valentine's day in it, as well as Easter, Palm Sunday and Ash Wednesday.

    The left hand page of the calendar is quite obviously from February, presumably the pages were jumbled so that some spreads now show a mixture of two months.

  • Jessta (unregistered)

    lol, a page was ripped out of the calender... fail.

  • Jadawin (unregistered) in reply to Jessta
    Jessta:
    lol, a page was ripped out of the calender... fail.
    Gawd, I'm glad SOMEONE finally caught it 'right'. The ripped out page has all of March on one side, Left half of Feb and right half of April on the other, and goes in on top of what we're looking at, March side up. Bwah!

    CAPTCHA: enim...obviously enum and slim with umsl ripped out!

  • sr (unregistered)

    The calendar is a special software delivery calendar. "We'll have it done by April 27th."

  • (cs) in reply to iToad
    iToad:
    Actually, the real WTF is buying cheap 2009 calendars. If you want to really save money, buy 2008 calendars. I've heard that 2007 calendars are even cheaper.

    Actually, every calendar is perfectly usable without math[1] 28[2] years after its printed year, and every 28 years after that, so long as we're still on the Gregorian calendar and we don't have a year divisible by 100 but not by 400. When that happens, your collection of 14[2] calendars will still be useful, but they'll be shuffled a bit[3].

    Mind you, my wife vowed to toss my 2032 calendar some time before then, just because she found the whole concept disturbing.

    [1] Other than, of course, computing which year to use. [2] Calendars in non leap-years are reusable three times as often. [3] For example, in 2100, you'd use a 2010-equivalent calendar, followed by 2011, 2017, 2018, and then 2032 - and the old pattern picks up again there.

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    That's what you get for going to Jiffy Lube! Half the time they can't even get the oil change right, let alone the sticker! You're better off going to the dealership! (which in most cases, is about the same price, and offers trained technicians and factory parts!) My Subaru is only 32.99 at the dealership, Goofy Lube wants $36.99!

  • vik (unregistered)

    Lousy Smarch weather...

  • Jay (unregistered)

    Hey, I've got a cool new idea for a product that I think will sweep the country! I'm trying to hire some engineers to turn it into reality. I call it the "horseless carriage". It's like an ordinary horse-drawn wagon but with some sort of engine ...

  • burma shave (unregistered) in reply to LightStyx
    LightStyx:
    Thief^:
    LightStyx:
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    Am I really the only one that learned that little poem in grade school about the number of days in the months?

    30 days has September, June and November Most of the rest have 31 And February’s great with 28 And Leap Year’s February’s fine with 29 That means April is all that's left Just remember, it's a WTF.

    Do believe it is

    Thirty days hath September, June, and November: Of twenty eight is but one, And all the rest are thirty one. Of course Leap year comes and stays, Every four years got it right, And twenty eight is twenty nine. Except for April who's just f$#ked up in its self

    The poem I learned went more like: Thirty days hath September April, June, and November All the rest have thirty-one Except February alone Which hath twenty-eight days clear And twenty-nine each leap year Except on my watch Which thinks every month is 31

    I think that's an older version (except the last two lines obviously), as I've seen "clear" replaced by "most years", which makes more sense.

    Though god damn, check out the Wikipedia article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_days_hath_September There seems to be a lot of variations, most of them poor copies of others...

    Here's the perfect one

    Thirty days hath Octember April, June, and no wonder All the rest have peanut butter Except my grandmother--she has a red tricycle

    Thirty days Hath September April, June And the speed offender

  • sryan2k1 (unregistered)

    4/1/1970 is 3 months after unix epoch. My bet is the time in the printer got reset/lost, started running from 0 (which is 1/1/1970) and it was set to print a date that was current date + 3 months.

  • Thewhat (unregistered)

    Gawd you guys are such idiots (except for a few) on the calendar thing.

    [image]

    simple as that

  • Thewhat (unregistered)

    See my post above, this page IS the missing page itself

  • manlok (unregistered)

    I’ll comment on the calendar pic. 1st you see it very strange, but the second time when you look at it, the calendar is not wrong. Someone has ripped the middle page of the calendar and living the left side of the April and the right side of the February. If you refer back to the other calendar of 2009, you can see that the Saturday of February is on 7, 14, 21 and 28. And when you look closer you can see on the 12th of the right page is the Abraham Lincoln birthday and on 14th still in the same page is the valentine day which is in February. For the person that post this pic, make sure to clear the evidence 1st before trying to trick others. :P

  • someone (unregistered)

    The calendar appears to be incorrectly collated. The left page is April; the right page is February (between January and March). At least it's explainable.

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    If March is supposed to be in the middle of the calendar, it probably has the months December '08 through June '09, or it has a page of ads at the front before the months January through June. It's such a cheap calendar that it doesn't even include all 12 months...

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