New system of months

[morwen]

I have decided to rename all the months. The existing system makes no sense at all and is discriminatory.

We have January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

People familiar with Latin will notice that "decem" means 10, "novem" means 9, "octo" means 8, "septem" means 7. These are clearly absurd - these month names have not been updated for the introduction of January and February (there used to be a long winter period not considered part of any month). Additionally, some of the months are named after Roman gods, but none after any other pantheons. This is clearly not acceptable in the modern multi-cultural world. The naming of July and August after dictators is clearly also wrong - I hope by abolishing references to dictators in my new month names I will be able to gain the support of the U.S. government

So, here is my new system

*Brahmanuary
*February
*Thor
*Satan
*Quintilis Quetzalcoatl
*Sextilis
*September (previously July)
*October (previously August)
*November (previously September)
*December (previously October)
*Jesusember (named for Jesus from Mormonism)
*Icke

Additionally, all months shall have the alternate name of "Bob".

Comments

[darkstream.livejournal.com]

personally I feel the idea of religious references in month names is outdated.
we should revert to a ten month year, with the months called "month1", "month2" and so forth.
combining this with a ten day week (6 working days in a 3 on 2 off arrangement) with days also numbered one through ten, which would continue regardless of seasons, would regiment the currently chaotic calendar.
resetting the calendar to zero with 100 day years, we'd catch up eventually and at some point arrive in our own future.
it's the sane thing to do. :P

[landvaettir.livejournal.com]

You planning on renaming the days of the week as well?

[darkstream.livejournal.com]

Whereas I like the idea of naming a month after Icke (as opposed to Tina Turner) I'm pretty sure it's the 8ft tall blood drinking lizards he goes on about that you want to be worried about offending rather than David.