Beware the Ides of March...

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I wanted to start a thread with that title (someone had to, after all) but I have no idea what question to ask. (Yes, I know, pointless, rock bottom, worst thread ever, etc, sigh, mope.) So just talk about anything you want to, I guess. Anyone stabbed you today? Ever planned to assassinate anyone? Ever visited a soothsayer, and did it come true? Julius Caesar: Classic or Dud? Taking Sides: Kalends vs Ides vs Nones...

Oh, go on, please answer it, someone. Please?

― Rebecca, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or you could just talk about how CLASSIC Roman dates are. Or tell me that the year's wrong, or something. (Blame the lovely unix app hodie if it is, though. You really thought I was sitting here doing all that arithmetic?)

-- rebecca (low-fi@spacecadet.co.uk), Id. Mar. MMDCCLV ab urbe condita.

― rebecca, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

YAAYY ROman dates are classic Rebecca! phew i thought i was the only one... ides, nones, kalends WICKED heheh. i liked nones best, there was that Shakespearean phrase "for the nones" which i think meant something utterly different though. i might go and look it up now... as well as seeing if the word "lote" is indeed in Sir Gawain.

― katie, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Vehicle" was a great single. Didn't they eventually become Survivor?

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

julis caesar = best man w/. women, best woman w.men IIRC

how the romans conquered ANYTHING wiv their screwy counting ways is a mystery

― mark s, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

March Records: S&D...Godzuki are cool, and I like a song by Pee on a comp album!

I got a papercut today!

― jel --, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Who first used the DO-YOU-SEE inversion of "Beware the march of ideas"? I think I read it in an "adult" (i.e. adolescent) comic sometime back when

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best part of Julius Caesar - the incensed mob turning on Cinna. Not the conspirator, as they think, but a poet who shares his name. "I am not Cinna the conspirator! I am Cinna the poet!" "Kill him for his bad verses!"

― MarkH, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was gicen 2/10 for my Latin homework for admiring the way the soothsayer says he's going to get merdXored (BLOOD BLOOD ect), and then HE DOES. That's brilliant.

― Graham, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nones = bad because I always forget how to spell it and think it's the 9th instead of the 5th/7th because it sounds like it should be. Id is the coolest abbreviation, but Kal is also pretty good because it begins with K, and you need to count towards it more than you need to count towards the others. On the other hand, you may remember from previous threads that my modulo 30 and modulo 31 arithmetic is rather shaky, and I get even more confused by a vague memory that you're supposed to count the day you're counting towards as well, plus *cough* I'm not always very good at remembering how long the current month is, so I get in a mess with Kalends and just end up putting random numbers. Erm, yes. But Ides = classic.

― Rebecca, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once invented my own calendar, which consisted of five months of 73 days each. That way the only time you'd need to have a month of a different length from the others would be on a leap year. I thought that we could dispense with names entirely and have the months lettered A to E. I thought that the leap day could be added onto month C, because it was in the middle. Of course then you'd need to new rhyme to help people remember the details of the new calendar, so I wrote one:

The months are lettered A to E
The sum of days in each is 73
Except on leap years, when there'll be
74 days in month C

Someone pointed out that this system was DUD because you'd have to wait longer for payday....

― MarkH, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've got a question regarding Ides of March. One of my friends tells me "Ides" means middle, so shouldn't the Ides of March be March 16th since March has 31 days?

― Vinnie, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My brother is having surgery today (he's got a hernia), so, it being the ides of march and all, I'm worried. I know it's supposed to be a pretty minor surgery, but there's always a risk involved in these things (plus I've never had any surgery, so it all seems so alien and frightening to me, I mean, cutting someone open with a knife is usually a bad thing.).

― Dan I., Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Talk about anything eh? Ok, let's see. Saturday afternoon I fell off the curb and skinned my knee all to hell. In mucho pain-o. Now today, It's St. Pats, I'm a year older, getting my best girlfriends (+ one boy) and going to the pub pre-noon and plan to be blotto by mid-aft. Going to look like an ass in a stripey stovepipe hat but don't plan to care. Wish me luck!

― Kim, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i. ides doesn't mean middle, except maybe by association (it's not always the 15th, like it is in march, it's sometimes the 13th)
ii. roman months anyway had different lengths to present-day months, esp. before they inserted july and august before "sept"ember

― mark s, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks, Mark! Yes, you right, Ides is just a special day, not the middle.

― Vinnie, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

BEWARE!!

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 March 2024 17:30 (two years ago)

the chides of march

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:33 (two years ago)

one year passes...

Someone has the opportunity to do the funnest thing today

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 15 March 2025 14:31 (one year ago)

Funniest*

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 15 March 2025 14:33 (one year ago)

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