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the 8 day week
sunday / monday / tuesday / wednesday / thrusday / friday / saturday / LOUFDAY | |
We could all use a longer weekend. The years go by so fast and I keep getting older, I'd prefer to stay twenty-four for as long as possible.
I've named the 8th day of the week "Loufday". Finally I can finish all those things I intended to do on Sunday (and thus begins the vicious cycle).
Why are there seven days in a week?
http://www.straight...lassics/a2_166.html
The Straight Dope from Cecil Adams, as well as a brief list of historical alternatives (none of which was 8 days in length, though). [jutta, Aug 25 2000]
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Actually... "they" would just make us work 6 days instead of 5. we'd still only have a 2 day weekend...
(always the optimist...) |
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you're probably right, unless we could convince all retail companies that LOUFDAY is the official weekly shopping holiday!
or something or other...(always the consumer) |
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8days-week suck, make it 14days-week. |
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damn Pills. hahahahharharhar |
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Yep, there's a Beatles song "Eight days a week/I love you/Eight days a week/Is not enough to show I care" and so on. |
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3 day weekend is certainly a good idea, but I tend to agree with ember that it is more likely to be a 6 day workweek :( |
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10 day week is simply too long... I wouldn't want to work 7 days, despite the 3 day weekend. Imagine a Tuesday (my least favourite day) morning if you had 6 more to go instead of just 4. |
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Actually, the math for this doesn't work very well. There are 365 days a year (solar rotation) divided by 8 days = 45 weeks + 5 days. Breaking that down into months doesn't work very well. |
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Unfortunately 7 divides better into 365, which is, IMO, why they really chose that many days, rather than the whole "god rested" thing. |
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No, ElectraSteph, you're
thoroughly wrong. 7 does not
divide 365, and months don't have
anything to do with weeks, and
"only having 1 left over instead
of 5" isn't useful, and your
opinion would do well to be
supplanted by the facts (or at
least more learned speculation). |
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I'm allowed to be this harsh
because I posited the "7 divides
365" argument once myself. I have
no idea why I thought 7 divided
365. "All odd numbers divide each
other, right?" |
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Why not have five days per week? It would evenly divide 365 days into 73 weeks. Although, five doesn't evenly go into 28 days per month (like on the thirteen month calendar). |
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