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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: More IRS Diarrhea
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Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 19:55:26 EST
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If I read this sentence right (and that's a big if), there's a calender
munging going on here that puts one pope I heard of to shame. It seems
that this pope (sometime in the Middle Ages) came to a town on a Friday,
but since Friday was a fast day, the townspeople could not properly
celebrate his arrival. The pope neatly fixed that by declaring that Friday
was Thursday. Thus, a week with two Thursdays. (This is from an old
Ripley's Believe it or Not.) That's pretty paltry compared with dropping
4 years from the calendar. But then, doesn't the IRS claim more
infallibility than the pope?

Hope people found this humorous enough for net.jokes...

                                            Jeff Winslow