Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Darryl's random thought for today

Today is Tuesday. Originally spelled Twosday it is thus named because it is the second day of the week. It was forcibly edited to its current spelling by the Catholic church when Sinday (otherwise known as 'repent or you are going to hell day') muscled in as the first day of the week.


The spelling of Sinday was revisited centuries later when a priest sneezed on an official document, blurring the word and causing the spelling to be changed to the now known Sunday.


The creation of Sinday also altered the spelling of the once first day Oneday. It was converted to Monday because pope jimmy the second liked the letter M. When the spelling of Sinday was changed to Sunday debate raged for a while to change the spelling of Monday to Moonday as to have the sun and the moon following each other. Despite the pleasing symmetry to this idea, it was eventually vetoed by pope jimmy the third because his daddy had spelled it with a single O and he wanted to honour that. A common known fact is that behind jimmy the 3rds back, the widespread rumour among the clergy was that the new spelling was disapproved because the two O's in a row secretly aroused the pope because they looked like a little boy's butt cheeks and he couldn't handle looking at that once every seven days.

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