Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 30, 2023

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    Tyge  over 1 year ago

    It’s a miracle, I tell you… a miracle!

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    pschearer Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I gather that nearly everyone on the Continent knows the Knuckles. I learned about it when I saw a German woman do it. But Americans don’t know it because we have that dam-ned jingle. I don’t know about the British. Anyone?

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    maureenmck Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Arlo’s calendar has 30 days for February?

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    DirkTheDaring Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I can never remember the jingle, I’ve used the knuckle thing forever.

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    I learned to use knuckles in primary school in Australia. Still use them. Use them for the days of the months, too.

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    Sanspareil  over 1 year ago

    The British are Koooool and don’t need no bloody jingle!

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    L'Europeo Premium Member over 1 year ago

    When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave.

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    w8d4it Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Thirty days hath September April June and November Thirty one have all the rest Except February and only February which has 28

    Seems a lot simpler than knuckles

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    Olddog1  over 1 year ago

    Learned the knuckle thing in late 50s.

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    AnneFackler  over 1 year ago

    I’m a knucklehead. Never heard this before. It’s cute

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    scottaswihart  over 1 year ago

    You mean “EXCLUDING”, yes?

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    mywifeslover  over 1 year ago

    I learned the knuckle bit but only on one hand. We reversed course for July and August on the same knuckle.

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    JessieRandySmithJr.  over 1 year ago

    Never heard of the knuckle thing myself, we had the 30 days jingle thing here in my part of the Southern U.S.

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Yes, we know the knuckle thing, but “30 days has September” works just as well without awkward hand games.

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    nosirrom  over 1 year ago

    Did Julius and Augustus know this?

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    ddjg  over 1 year ago

    “Thirty days after September, April, June and November. February has twenty-eight alone;All the rest have thirty-one,Excepting leap year: That’s the timeWhen February’s days are twenty-nine.”

    This is from the best-selling Mother Goose book in history, by the great illustrator, Blanche Fisher Wright (1992). The Original Mother Goose. Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. (Original work published 1916 as The Real Mother Goose, published by Rand McNally)

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    SeanT  over 1 year ago

    30 days has September, all the rest I can’t remember

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    Hamady Sack Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Thanks.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I learned to look at a calendar. Guess that is boring.

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    Forest Dweller 54  over 1 year ago

    I didn’t know that, you learn something new each day.

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    cabalonrye  over 1 year ago

    You don’t need to switch hand, you hop on the same knuckle (July/August) then go backward

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    [Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I thought Arlo was mansplaining, that everyone knew that. Then I read the responses to pschearer’s comment.

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    timinwsac Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Now Arlo can explain why one parks in the driveway and drives through the parkway.

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    Skeptical Meg  over 1 year ago

    On one of their tv shows, where Costello was tossed in the clink for a month…. Abbott said “the poet said, ‘stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage’.” Costello said “and the judge said ‘thirty days hath September, April, June, and Lou Costello’.”

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    maxiesmom2 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    This is a thing?? I’ll be 60 this year and have never heard that one before. Wow.

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    Just-me  over 1 year ago

    My grandfather taught me the jingle (which I always have difficulty in remembering) and my mother taught me the knuckles. Now-a-days, I just remember which month has how many days, but if pressed, I revert to knuckle counting.

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    Thanksfortheinfo2000  over 1 year ago

    And now you know the real reason we switched to the year starting in January…

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    mrsdonaldson  over 1 year ago

    I just learned that a few years ago.

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    belgarathmth  over 1 year ago

    Was that supposed to say ’…excluding February…"?

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    formathe  over 1 year ago

    Know both. Use neither. Do not care how many days in a month. Very adept at reading a calendar. Retired. Canadian.

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    Hydrohead  over 1 year ago

    The rhyme never worked for me. Couldn’t get past “half September” and the fact that it was not in order starting with January. I was taught the nickel method by one of my classmates in Highschool. At least I think it was that late in my schooling. But it was also someone I had been going to school with off and on since 3rd grade, and I have clearly shown that I have issues with memory. Thus the inability to remember the rhyme.

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    j_e_richards  over 1 year ago

    I always amaze my training classes with this one..

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    joedon2007  over 1 year ago

    now that arlo has nothing left to tell her – is he leaving?

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    Emperor Rick  over 1 year ago

    Grasshopper.

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    jr1234  over 1 year ago

    I am surpised Janis not know that.

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    larryzolcienski  over 1 year ago

    77 years old and this is the first I have heard of this. An old dog learning a new trick! Thanks.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Poor Janis………

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    Brent Rosenthal Premium Member over 1 year ago

    If you just learn the poem, you can keep your hands in your pockets

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    Mermaid515  over 1 year ago

    30 days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31 except February which is missing some.

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    MaybeImAmazed  over 1 year ago

    “Including February.” Oh, Arlo.

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    Steverino Premium Member over 1 year ago

    YAY Julie and Pope Gregory.

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    donwestonmysteries  over 1 year ago

    So every other month has 31 days. Sorry Arlo, February doesn’t have 30.

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    sobrown51  over 1 year ago

    So according to Arlo, February has 30 days?

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    James Lindley Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Mom taught me that over 60 years ago.

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    Dana Kuhar Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The middle of the year is easy to remember if your name is JASON — July August September October November

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    Ginny Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Funny. I never learned any jingles or knuckles, just remember the info.

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    eladee AKA Wally  over 1 year ago

    February doesn’t have 30 days. It only has 28 or 29 if it is a Leap Year.

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    royq27  over 1 year ago

    I leaned this in 2nd grade. And never learned anything after that…

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    raybarb44  over 1 year ago

    Nice to know….

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    crazeekatlady  over 1 year ago

    I was taught to start with the index finger, go up and down starting with January. Get to the pinkie and turn around for August.

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    Bradley Walker  over 1 year ago

    Q. What month has 28 days?

    A. They all do.

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    Bradley Walker  over 1 year ago

    POGO: Let’s see, what day is today? Thirty days hath November…

    CHURCHY: Did Pogo say NO vember hath 30 days?

    OWL: Well, hardly any vembers — some vembers got only a handful.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 1 year ago

    I learned it from Paul Kenneth Godwin in the ninth grade although you don’t have to switch fists, just go back to the beginning.

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    bjensen6  over 1 year ago

    I just use one hand. When you get to July count it again as August and work your way back.

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    char819  over 1 year ago

    30 days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31 except February is what we were taught.

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    kodipepper  over 1 year ago

    I’ve never heard that.

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    Sandra Anderson Premium Member over 1 year ago

    No knuckles here. Just the whole jingle, which few seem to know: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; After February’s done, all the rest have thirty-one.

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    rfeinberg  over 1 year ago

    This makes Janis sound like an idiot, if she doesn’t know that February never has 30 days.

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