On Aug 17, 2011, at 7:03 AM, [email protected] wrote: > and, much to my surprise, I've recently found out that the dog days > originally didn't refer to anything about the weather, but to shooting the > wild dogs in the larger cities
Well per Wikipedia (that infallible source of stuff people kind of agree is true, or truthy enough to publish :-) it dates from Roman times, was in August and at the time was heralded by the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star in the east. This coincided with miserable weather in the mediterranean (well miserable relatively speaking :-) and so they blamed Sirius. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Days> Me, I really don't think Howard Stern's THAT much to blame :-P -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
