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Heroic Knight
 
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| I keep thinking of Germinal and semi nekkid french coalminers now, oh Zola what have you done to my sense of propriety? Aztec calenders are cool, the Ophidians who are that way inclined could adopt it, Stabday 1, stabday 2, Good Stabday...etc
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sack-boy (9/26/2008)
Matt Pennington (9/25/2008)
... and is not because I am genetically incapable of remembering how many days there are supposed to be in any given month in the real world.
There's a nice little physical mnemonic - clench both fists, starting on the left little finger knuckle count the knuckles and "grooves" towards the right. If you land on a knuckle it's a 31 day month, if you land in a "groove" between two knuckles it's a 30 days. Of course you still have to remember February is a 28 day "groove":
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Or the oral one:
"Thirty days has september, april, june and november
all the rest have thirty-one, except for febuary alone
which has twenty-eight days clear and twenty-nine each leap year!"
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crab (10/2/2008)
"Thirty days has september, april, june and november
all the rest have thirty-one, except for febuary alone
which has twenty-eight days clear and twenty-nine each leap year!"
"Thirty days has September, and so do all the rest."
Much easier to remember.
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crab (10/2/2008)
Or the oral one:
"Thirty days has september ..."
For which you have to remember all the words, whereas it's hard to forget your hands 
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| Plus it scans and rhymes almost as well with 30 days hath october, april, june and december.... Then, I can't make the fingers one work either, I forget where you're supposed to start counting from.
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We talk IC about the days of the festival being Friday, Saturday, Sunday and (on the four-day events) Monday.
13x7 = 91
If Sunday is Day 1, then Day 90 would be Friday if the weeks run through seven days in the normal OOC sequence. That that fits with the idea that at most events the friday is the 30th of one month and the Sunday is the 1st of the next, so the last event was like this:
Thu 29th March 1659
Fri 30th March (festival starts at 6pm after a full day's work)
Saturday
Sunday 1st April (festival ends at 3pm, then everyone manages a full day's work before next day)
Monday 2nd April
It doesn't fit the Friday-to-Monday events though. Could the calendar have two consecutive Mondays, like this monstrosity?
Thu 29th June 1659
Fri 30th June (festival starts at 6pm after a full day's work)
Saturday
Sunday
Monday(A) 1st July (festival ends at 3pm, then everyone manages a full day's work before next day)
Monday(B) 2nd July
Tuesday 3rd July etc.
Or perhaps there's a special name for the weekday of the 2nd of July.
On the other hand, we could avoid the whole thing by supposing the concept of weeks and named days of the week does not exist in the Maelstrom setting.
"Friday" means the first day of a festival, "Saturday" the second and so on, and those terms are used for that purpose only.
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anotherusedpage (10/3/2008)
Plus it scans and rhymes almost as well with 30 days hath october, april, june and december....
Then, I can't make thefingers one work either, I forget where you're supposed to start counting from. Agreed, the rhyme works perfectly well in all sorts of wrong versions. With the knuckles, you start with the first bone for January. That starting-point seems natural and obvious enough to me, but if you want an extra mnemonic, how about remembering that fact by thinking of all the bones left over from the Christmas-time feasting?
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When it comes to mnemonics, sometimes I think it's just easier to remember the damn information in the first place... 
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