Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for June 19, 2016

Caesar, Dave …

I had a salad. You ate too Brutus?

False advertising…neither one of them is dressing….they’re both fully clothed.

I’m not paying 4 or 5 gold coins for salad.For that much gold, I expect cheesecake.

The Ides were four days ago.

And then came Paul Newman….

And then, the dressing was invented by a Mexican chef of that name, but the cartoon is still somewhat funny.

The “Ides” was more or less the middle day of a month…the “Nones” was a day just a bit after the beginning, and the Kalends (from which we get “calendar” ) marked the end.

The Romans counted the days from those three points.

March was the first month of the year, and the Ides of March was particularly significant, even before … you know…shh…. we don’t want Caesar to hear….

Don’t buy Caeser’s. It all expired back in March.

And to this very day you can’t get Brutus Salad Dressing.

I mostly educated myself…. the UK school I was sent to was useless. It seems that there are differing opinions as to the Ides. I referred to a book, not a website.

John, my bad… Yes first day, but the day count went backwards, so the days of June would be counted as so many till, or of, the calends… actually of July, but I forgot that part. . The days after that are counted as so many of the nones of July.It’s confusing when you’re used to counting forward. Would be like only saying the time as, say, a quarter till three, and never two forty five.

“Et tu, Brute?”“Naw man, I ain’t et nothin’ "