I finally bowled a turkey

[Marky]

Haha. Never had that happen, but I have come close. Also, I once launched a gutter ball that got stuck in the ball return area...somehow...

[Mitera Nikkou]

throwing balls in their lane.

There's your problem. You're releasing the ball too high. Otherwise it should go in the gutter, not the other lane. ;p

Fortunately for me, I can bowl straight. I've tried to put a curve on the ball, but it doesn't work out all that well. In trying to curve it I usually get my aim wrong and miss the center pin. But I'm working on my curve since it tends to turn out well when my aim is right.

[Funny Hat + Funny Accent]

I would hope a curve ball turns out right.

XD

[Mitera Nikkou]

I tried to make it spin right with my right hand, but I nearly sprained my wrist doing so. <_<; So I gave my left hand a try... and gutter-balled it. The aim just isn't the same. ;p

[Queen Octavia]

The key is to use both hands and throw it from behind your legs, go entirely too fast and knock yourself over, do a backflip, fall flat on your face, have the ball conk you on the head and then roll slowly down the alley for a strike.

[Mitera Nikkou]

But that plays to the tune of a loony.

[Queen Octavia]

But that plays to the tune of a loony.

Well, you know I'm an April fool... but wait, there's more!

I'm also 22, and Canadian. So what?

Well, the Canadian $1 coin was introduced in 1987, the year of my birth. The name of this coin is the "Loonie".

So not only am I an April fool, I am an April fool born in the year of the loonie.

Zing.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Actually, there's a funny thing about your birth date. Due to the foolish people who made our non-lunatical calendar, your birthday no longer falls on April first. (See what I did, thar?) Your birthday is now six days away, in March.

I blame the saints, when they came Marching in.

[Queen Octavia]

Actually, there's a funny thing about your birth date. Due to the foolish people who made our non-lunatical calendar, your birthday no longer falls on April first. (See what I did, thar?) Your birthday is now six days away, in March.

I blame the saints, when they came Marching in.

Actually, if you just implement metric time it shifts right back to where it ought to be ^^

[Mitera Nikkou]

No it wouldn't. If you still divide the year by twelve months, it won't matter how you measure time. But even if you changed that, you may not have April start exactly where it was, besides. ;p

[Marky]

So, you say his birthday is going to jump around like Easter?

[Mitera Nikkou]

It is, and it does. Just as it is for everyone else. As it stands, look at Easter and Christmas. Both holidays concerning Jesus, but one follows an exact date of a month (25th) and the other a certain day (Sunday) based on something that our calendar doesn't follow. Which is completely illogical if you're striving for comparably accurate dates. But it's really the extra day added to the calendar, every leap year, that screw things up. Why? Because the calendar itself is meant to be rigid, measuring 365 days every year. While the extra day every four years does cover the extra time that it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun every year, the calendar itself doesn't measure 266 days every year. Not that it would be accurate. But nor does it measure 365 1/4 days every year, which would set everything straight. Well, not really. After all, we live by the Earth's rotation, from one twenty-four hour period to the next, and tossing in an extra six hours every year would screw up the time that the sun rises and sets until the fourth year completes the twenty-four hours we live by.

And blah, blah, blah. Yakkity, yakkity, yak. So on and so forth, ad nauseum.

[Queen Octavia]

And now time for me to be tricky:

True or false: The year 2100 will be a leap-year.


Anyways, the only real importance of a calendar year is that it adheres to the seasons reasonably well. That's why we have leap-year shenanigans, so that the seasons don't shift around through the months. Not that that would really matter.

In any event, time is an illusion. Lunch-time is doubly so.

If I had my way time would be circular (IE future can affect the past), but that would probably be too zany.

But who says time even exists? I think it was invented by watch-makers for their own profit.

[Mitera Nikkou]

I'm too lazy to guess whether it's true or false. But I doubt the extra time each year is exactly six hours. And over time that should add up (or subtract), too. And every 1460 years we have a year's worth of leap days accounted for. You know, I think the ancient Egyptians were aware of it, too, if I remember correctly.

And everyone (by now) should know that there is no time. It's only a measurement, and thus a concept we made up.