Origins of February

No. 3 February 6, 2002

*****MUNDOBLAINEO SITE NEWS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 6, 2002*********

Howdy folks. Hope everyone made the transition from January into February unscathed. A brief note for the pedantic.

february Feb"ru*a*ry, n. [L. Februarius, orig., the month of expiation, because on the fifteenth of this month the great feast of expiation and purification was held, fr. februa, pl., the Roman festival of purification; akin to februare to purify, expiate.] The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. (who the hell was numa? blr) In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

See? We're all pagan all over the place and don't even realize it when we're going down to the Mithraeum to drink blood on Sunday. (SUNday? Dies Solis? The day of the sun, Mithra's dad. Oh lordy lordy lord they's conspiracy everwhere ya look!)

I digress, as usual. I'm still here on the island, it's still splendid and I'm having big fun. Thought you'd like to know that.

The major piece of news in Mundoblaineo is that I have gone and added a page for my erstwhile pard, Steven Brown. I have left content up to him and I will exercise no editorial control over what kind of far left pinko commie subsersive drivel he sees fit to post there. Hey, that's the kind of tolerant, even-tempered all around good guy I am. If I have visions of Joseph Cotten and Orson in Citizen Blaine, that's my hallucination, ain't it?

Here's the link. I guess I'm finished yakkin'.