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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.

OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link

Monthly mnemonic

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

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

here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link

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.

Alba, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link

it’s the one that indicates

sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link

https://youtu.be/w8Oxg9zPUBE

Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link

Great url

Alba, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link

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.

Alba, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link

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

OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link

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

just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link

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

just another 3-pinnochio post by (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link

The annual 12 knuckle shuffle

Alba, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link

DIGITUS II: Digital Boogaloo

DIGITUS II: The Refingering

DIGITUS II: Return of the Pointer

Fjord Explorer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link

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

Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link

Monthly mnemonic

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

underrated tweet

Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link

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

healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link

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

pence's eye juice (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link

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

pplains, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link

^^ Image needed more drop shadow, imo.

pplains, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link

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?

Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link

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

healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link

Wait,

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

fetter, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link

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

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link

Good un

healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link

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

Alba, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link

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

Alba, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link

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

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link

I probably first saw it 25 years ago and at least twice since but somehow it flew right by me that Glengarry Glenn Ross is set in Chicago

A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link

I should say that it was wins on the outbreak thread who made me think again about jibes with:

outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Alba, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link

About jives with, rather

Alba, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link

Feel quite strongly that "jive" is currently more correct and "jibe" should be reserved for taunts but I have nothing - and I mean literally, in the actual, correct sense of that word - literally nothing to substantiate that prejudice.

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link

Well that is because you are incorrect, so

Dan I., Thursday, 29 October 2020 00:44 (three years ago) link

jive = swingin, jazz, talkin - things working and moving together

jibe = taunting, friction, teasing - things rubbing at cross purposes

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 October 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link

ugh, wait, the "correct" definition is from some sailing shit. I changed my mind, I'm on your side

Dan I., Thursday, 29 October 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link

i like the cut of your jive young sir

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 October 2020 01:06 (three years ago) link

Sailing
Takes me away
To where ive always
Known u were RONG

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 October 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link

Oh stewardess, I speak jibe

Sam Weller, Thursday, 29 October 2020 09:07 (three years ago) link

1) That Peaches & Herb's 'Reunited' is a sequel to their 1968 single '(We'll Be) United'.

2) That there were seven different Peaches-es throughout the years.

OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 October 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link

(Not a complete list.)

pplains, Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link

Millions of peaches!

Alba, Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link

it is Peaches tbf

rob, Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link

In piano teaching, the thumb is "finger 1" and the index is "finger 2."

https://www.letsplaykidsmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/introducing-piano-fingering.jpg

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link

ugh, wait, the "correct" definition is from some sailing shit. I changed my mind, I'm on your side

― Dan I., Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:00 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

That reminds me: twice lately I've heard a speaker (probably on a podcast) say "a different tact"--people who are normally very carefully spoken and accurate. Is this usage now somehow acceptable?

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link

No, that's as bad as "duct tape"

Alba, Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link

Like in the sense of a form of "tactic" which is probably contributing to the confusion.

xp oh thank goodness.

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link

also...lol?

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 29 October 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link

I knew the sailing term and had vaguely understood that to be the buried metaphor in "jibes with."

But if someone in my professional orbit were to write "jives with," I would understand it and not get all prescriptive on their ass.

Just to mess with y'all, though, you will often see it spelled gybe or, just for funsies, gibe.

Anaïs Ninja (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link

I wonder how many Daryl Dragons there really were.

pplains, Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link

Putting this here because 1) Nautical words and 2) I love it.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/b2/b7/fab2b7a9724d2f54dc766ba16b3d8290.png

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link


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