Holidays, calendars and dating sytems

Submitted by RGard on

Well, we have a new holiday, Harbaugh Day, forever to be celebrated on Dec 30th. We earlier determined this will be a 9 day celebration beginning on Festivus (Dec 23rd) and finishing up on January 1st with our most holy of holy days being Harbaugh Day.

December 23rd – Festivus
December 24th – Christmas Eve
December 25th – Christmas
December 29th – Harbaugh’s Eve
December 30th – Harbaugh Day (or Harbaughnukkah as suggested by some)
December 31st – New Year’s Eve
January 1st – New Year’s Day

We will have to give names to Dec 26, 27, & 28, but I'll leave those decisions for our first Council of Harbaughnicea.

Bonus years will be when Ramadan and or Hanukkah occur during our 9 days of Harbaugh and more excessive drinking will be mandated.

This begs the question…do we need to re-set our calculation of what year it is? Currently we have the disagreement between folks using Anno Domini (AD & BC) vs. folks using Common Era (CE & BCE). I’m suggesting we resolve the nomenclature dispute between AD and CE, by restarting the calendar with 2015 becoming year 1. The new year tomorrow is 1 Anno Harbaugh (1 AH). Last year becomes 1 Before Harbaugh (1 BH).

Now I know this could confusing to some of our less intelligent conference opponents given Jim Harbaugh was born in the year 51 BH, but we’ll understand it and that is all that counts.

Also, know that the second millennium AH will begin on 1 January 1001, not 1 January 1000 as there is no year zero.

I think we’re best sticking with the Gregorian system, but if somebody wants to convert us over to a lunar or luni-solar system, we could look at that too.

Harbaugh is with us and I'm still doing my happy dance.

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bigbrother

December 31st, 2014 at 3:22 PM ^

The Three Days of Happening sounds great.

 

While we're on the subject of calendars, am I the only person who doesn't have a problem with the fact that December 12 or May 26 or March 3 isn't on the same day every year? I see these articles with people tying themselves in knots over the fact that last year their birthday was on a Wednesday and this year it is on a Thursday. I would actually hate to have every date always be on the same week day. I hope the calendar is never "fixed". That is all.

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LSAClassOf2000

December 31st, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^

If we wanted to get fancy with this, we could insert some features of the Roman calendar into each month as well, but we would have to come up with something else to mark certain days of the month other than "Kalends", "Nones" and "Ides". That being said, the Ides of the Conference Schedule might be a good designation for the 4th game of the conference schedule. 

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justingoblue

December 31st, 2014 at 9:15 PM ^

Google Images has it almost 100% incorrect on the first page. The Mayan calanders are three rings, like this:

(I'm pretty sure this is a good rendering, I'm very familiar with the Aztec stone from high school volunteer work at the Field Museum but not so much on the Mayan.)

This is the Aztec stone:

Apparently some people noticed the widespread mistake in 2012

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jmblue

December 31st, 2014 at 4:41 PM ^

 

Bonus years will be when Ramadan and or Hanukkah occur during our 9 days of Harbaugh and more excessive drinking will be mandated.

Not sure Ramadan is associated too much with excessive drinking.

 

 

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