When somebody posts up a schedule or fixture for something; they include the date and the time but neglect, for some unknown reason to state the day.
I mean Iām not a walking fucking calendar like.
Is it some ploy to get you to research the date in some subconscious way to get you to think about going.
It has the reverse effect on meā¦.
The date tells you the day. Thats the key to it reallyā¦
Youāre not really getting my point are you?
Your point is that you donāt know what day it is, even though you know the dateā¦
Dead right mate. Iāve enough balls in the air footixing, following Irish pastimes, current affairs and maintaining employment, then we have to go back and consult a calender or worse, do a painful mental calculation which only applies if we are aware of that dayās current date. I dropped current affairs and films 15 years ago. The Maths have to Math as Gaz said.
Now you have it.
There was this yank I think on the Late Late years ago and no matter what date you gave her sheād tell you what day it fell on, no problem.
There was lads in the audience throwing dates at her like the day they were born or married or what not. Gabo was stunned as she go them all right.
Bit of course there was one smart lad in the audience (might have been a past relation of yours) that was adamant sheād got it wrong. But there was no internet back then so Gabo couldnāt check.
I can do that.
It was my party piece in Mallorca in 2005.
āSid, what date did February 13th, 1936 fall on?ā
āThatās easy. Thursday.ā
"How do we know? Every 28 years the dates are the same.
1936 + 28 + 28 = 1992.
In 1992 I recall being at a National Hurling League match between Dublin and Clare at Parnell Park on Sunday February 16th. Stephen Sheedy was carried off on a stretcher and looked very cold.
Three days before that was a Thursday. So February 13th, 1936 was a Thursday."
Whatās far more annoying than this is fellas working off of week numbers, e.g. āletās plan that in for the Tuesday of week 37ā. The Danes are absolute hoors for this craic.
What year did Good Friday fall on a Monday?
Itās āwhen did Good Friday fall on an Easter Mondayā.
That might be what people say but itās apparently incorrect. The horse Good Friday fell in the King George on Boxing Day 1899.
That was a Tuesday 
What year did Good Friday fall in June?
2000
It was indeed. I think @TreatyStones has been undone by a novice mistake here.
Working backwards to work out what day of the week December 26th, 1899 was, youād think that 28+28+28=84 so go back 84 years, so letās look at the 1983 dates and apply them to 1899.
Now as we all know September and December have the days of the week falling in the same numbered pattern each and every year.
As we also know, Dublin beat Galway in the All-Ireland football final on Sunday September 18th, 1983. So December 18th in 1983 was a Sunday and thus the 26th was a Monday.
So surely just a simple 84 year substraction to deduce December 26th, 1899 was a Monday?
Wrong.
1900 was NOT a leap year. In three of every four centuries, years ending in -00 are NOT leap years. But 2000 WAS a leap year, it was the odd one out in four centuries. 2400 will be the next leap year in a year ending in -00.
The correct answer is that December 26th is a Tuesday.
What year was Good Friday in May?
1916, according to the Wolfe Tones. This used to annoy the bejaykers out of me oulā fella as weād be driving home from playing pitch and putt in Glencullen or Bohernabreena or Sandyford on summer nights circa 1992-1995 and heād be playing the Wolfe Tones in the car.
āI like the song but I donāt like that line. Sure Good Friday CANāT fall in May. Itās historically inaccurate and it makes it sound foolish. I donāt know why they didnāt change it to ājust after break of dayā. That was all they had to do.ā
'Twas on Good Friday morning,
All in the month of May,
A German Ship was signalling,
Be yond out in the Bay,
We had twenty thousand rifles
All ready for to land,
But no answering signal did come
From the lonely Banna Strand.
Casement got straight of the boat and joined the flying column in 19 and 16.
Flying back in time seemingly.
Theyād love you on the Dull menās club on Facebook. Until youād throw the cat among the pigeons by calling a few dull middle englanders paedophile Nazis.
