Wow, I've just realised that our first episode of Citation Needed is now just over a decade old!
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Edgin whacking people with his lute
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(first off: I'm not an astronomer, and I may be wildly off, but…) I had always assumed that "This too was incorrect. By almost a quarter of an hour", on the first page of Good Omens, was a throwaway joke. Today I realised it might actually be a reference; was it?
AIUI, Ussher said that although the creation occurred on the autumn equinox (22 September), he gave the date as 21 October to account for the drift caused by the Julian calendar, which was in use in Ireland at that time. I think he also said that it occurred at 9am Irish time, because that's noon in Jerusalem.
What just occurred to me is that Irish civil time is calculated from the Greenwich meridian. But Ussher lived in Armagh, 6.55° west of Greenwich. The solar time in Armagh at noon in Jerusalem is 9:19am and on 21 October is 9:11am. So 9am is off by almost a quarter of an hour.
Thanks for all the happy memories and the solidarity over the years.
I just want to show this to Terry Pratchett.
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Remember not to get the two confused:
Polyamory: I have multiple partners.
Pollyarmoury: I have multiple parrots. As weapons.
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Reference post : https://www.instagram.com/p/CFATquZj_XH/?igsh=Z3FscnB5ZnAycjR0
I will be throwing myself headfirst into comic book art for the foreseeable future. Apologies in advance.
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Whatever the case, feel free to write long-winded explanations in the tags, I WILL read them!
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My only real and valid writing tip is that you google every word you make up for your fantasy stories. That's It
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