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Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????

From:Fabian <lajzar@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 14:50
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From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...>
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Sent: 24 April 2001 10:22
Subject: Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????


> In a message dated 4/24/01 12:13:56 AM, Daniel44@BTINTERNET.COM writes: > > << As for days of the week, any similar ideas/suggestions? >> > > So as not to spurn anyone's religion, you can go back to deriving
their
> names from the numbers one through seven (or, you can be really daring and > claim there are six or eight or ten days of the week). However, you might > inadvertantly insult someone by, say, making the world's equivalent of > Saturday the seventh or sixth day, or whatever. As for me, I always think
of
> days of the week in terms of colors: Monday's blue, Tuesday's white, > Wednesday's red, Thursday's yellow, Friday's green, Saturday's orange, and > Sunday's purple. :)
Months: Jan Feb mar pale blue Apr green May red Jun orange Jul golden/yellow Aug purple Sep Oct Nov black Dec white There is a method to these colours. Unfortunately, I can't think of colours for the other months. -- Fabian The human didn't notice. Did other cats have this problem with their pets?

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