I love, I love, I love my calendar girl, each and every day of the year ..

There's a most juicy 555 item/rumour flying around.

They say: "Do your realise October 2010 has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays?"

Wow, is that right?

They say: Yeah and it only happens every 823 years! Wow!

Utter bunk, twaddle, rubbish, claptrap and  inexactitude folks!!

What about 1993, 1999, 2004, 2021, 2032, ... ? All of these years had (in October)  5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and .... (you know the rest).... 5 Sundays .... the big 555

Hardly every 823 years.... I would have thought .....

If you don't believe moi, check it out on this link.

Yet this 555 urban myth has gained some momentum?  Why?

Again, the problem is a LACK OF MATHEMATICAL NOUS in a large segment of the population.

Not you of course dear, kind and thoughtful reader.

The problem is that the person perpetrating this nonsense is lacking critical think skills.  The soul falsely reasons "gosh, how unusual ..... three days in a row... wow ... must be ever ... so very very rare ..."

The poor soul's brain is now so very receptive to the lie!! The lie can be swallowed, as they say, hook line and sinker ....

Anyhow .... lets get now to the maths:

Every year adds 1 day to the calendar.
Every leap year adds 2 days .... to the  .... ummm ..... er  calender

so take 2004 with  5 fridays, 5 saturdays and 5 sundays.

When does it happen next???

2005 (+1), 2006 (+1), 2007 (+1), 2008 (leap year +2), 2009 (+1), 2010 (+1)    this is 1+1+1+2+1+1 = +7 wowoh!

so 2010 has 5 fridays and 5 Sats and yes .... you guess it ... 5 Sundays.

Simple as that.