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How are you spending the summer solstice?
Front-Ranger:
Point of clarification needed: does the summer solstice mark midsummer, or the beginning of summer? Enquiring minds want to know! (Or is that inquiring? I've been surfing Scottish and English web sites, and now my spelling's all shot to hell!!)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 17, 2009, 01:15:48 pm ---Point of clarification needed: does the summer solstice mark midsummer, or the beginning of summer? Enquiring minds want to know! (Or is that inquiring? I've been surfing Scottish and English web sites, and now my spelling's all shot to hell!!)
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The summer solstice marks the beginning of summer.
Now, just to confuse matters, it used to be called "Midsummer Day," which really meant "Mid-year Day," because it was presumed to be the middle of the year, six months after/six months before the winter solstice.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 17, 2009, 01:29:35 pm ---The summer solstice marks the beginning of summer.
Now, just to confuse matters, it used to be called "Midsummer Day," which really meant "Mid-year Day," because it was presumed to be the middle of the year, six months after/six months before the winter solstice.
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Thank you, friend, that's great to know!!
Another way to spend the day might be to watch Were the World Mine about a gay teenager's audition for a musical version of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream." Or, you could watch Woody Allen's version, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy.
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 17, 2009, 01:50:17 pm ---Thank you, friend, that's great to know!!
Another way to spend the day might be to watch Were the World Mine about a gay teenager's audition for a musical version of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream." Or, you could watch Woody Allen's version, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy.
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Good idea, friend. Were the World Mine just came out on DVD two weeks ago.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKsFo3q_yZA[/youtube]
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 17, 2009, 11:42:53 am ---the kind where you have to dump all your clothes in the washer as soon as you get home to get the smoky woodsy smell out of them!
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Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to rid your clothes of their smoke and mountain sage and sweet salty stink! :)
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