Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: More IRS Diarrhea Message-ID: <3522@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 19:55:26 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.3522 Posted: Sun Feb 19 19:55:26 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 03:42:37 EST Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 13 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