So, it's a blue moon. What do you think is going to happen once on a blue moon?

[HereSince1628]

From wiki:

The earliest recorded English usage of the term "blue moon" was in a 1524 pamphlet violently attacking the English clergy,[4] entitled "Rede Me and Be Not Wrothe" ("Read me and be not angry"; or possibly "Counsel Me and Be Not Angry"[5]): "If they say the moon is belewe / We must believe that it is true" [If they say the moon is blue, we must believe that it is true].

Another interpretation uses another Middle English meaning of belewe, which (besides "blue&quot can mean "betray".[2] By the 18th century, before the Gregorian calendar reform, the medieval computus was out of sync with the actual seasons and the moon, and occasionally spring would have begun and a full moon passed a month before the computus put the first spring moon.[6][7] Thus, the clergy needed to tell the people whether the full moon was the Easter moon or a false one, which they may have called a "betrayer moon" (belewe moon) after which people would have had to continue fasting for another month in accordance with the season of Lent.[8]

Modern interpretation of the term relates to absurdities and impossibilities; the phrase "once in a blue moon" refers to an event that will take place only at incredibly rare occasions.[9]

[Scuba]

1. A Republican will tell the truth? Nah.

[HarveyDarkey]

2. !!

[murielm99]

3. I was going to say something flippant,

but I can't, after this post.

[HopeHoops]

5. Damn. That made my eyes water up.

[HopeHoops]

4. The central storage array at the Harrisburg Patriot-News freaked out and trashed the entire network.

I used to work on those things for a living (in newspaper buildings including The Boston Globe), and it's not an easy thing to fix. They finally got things going again, but the paper didn't show up until late afternoon. Diagnosing shit like that (usually over the phone) is always an armpit-sweat generator. And yes, this was on the 31st of August.