Of course, if we just went ahead and banned August, that might help with the heat an humidity. The birthday could be moved. Its not like September is anything to sneeze at. And besides, its a pretty sparsely used month, in my mind. One major holiday. The unofficial end of summer. But other than September 11, and a handful of birthdays, what happens in September? You hardly ever run into someone with a September birthday. So its wide open.
And August? Its just a wreck. Some evidence:
- Hiroshima & Nagasaki occured in August
- Its when Anne Frank was arrested
- its when the first income tax was collected
- Elvis & Marilyn Monroe both died
- WWI - started in August
and the kicker:
- Publishers (apparently) don't release books in August *GASP*
Here's an article arguing for, well, not exactly banishing August, but making it more bareable. Its the third or so year they've run it, I've wanted to post it in the past, so here it is. Pretty funny stuff.
It's silly people like you who forget that we need rain or else we'll live in a desert.
ReplyDeleteAugust is here purely to take all the bad stuff that MUST happen in life, so you can enjoy, and appreciate, the rest of the year.
I don't think I could have been born in any other month!