Stop me if you've heard this before:
An interesting fact about October 2010. This October has 5 Fridays 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays all in one month. This happens once in every 823 years. These are money bags. Paste it on your status and money will appear in 4 days. Based on Chinese fengshui. Whoever stops this will experience none. its worth a try!
Deja vu? The same hokum went around a couple of months ago, except that version said: "This August has 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays, 5 Tuesdays, all in one month. This happens once in every 823 years."
Yadda, yadda.
(UPDATE: There's a new version circulating for October 2011, which starts on a Saturday.)
Fact: In any 31-day month, whatever days of the week the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fall on will occur a total of five times. If a month starts with Friday-Saturday-Sunday, it will have a total of 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. If it starts with Sunday-Monday-Tuesday, it will have a total of 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays, and 5 Tuesdays. And so on.
Fact: The phenomenon is neither mysterious nor rare. It occurs far more frequently than "once every 823 years." We only have to wait till next summer, in fact, for another month with 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays to occur: July 2011.
Fact: Posting dumb hoaxes as your Facebook status will not cause money to magically appear.
Helpful hint: What Is a Chain Letter?
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“Fact: Posting dumb hoaxes as your Facebook status will not cause money to magically appear.”
Dang, there goes my retirement plan.
Ummm…the hoax has to do with the month of OCTOBER. Your comment about July 2011 is irrelevant.
A better fact, David, would be to say this happened way back in October 2004…not quite 823 years ago.
Sure, you can read it that way. In which case, as you say, the last October with 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays was in 2004, and the next one will occur in 2021, 11 years from now.
Whichever way you interpret it, it’s hogwash.
But what if my hogs get dirty next month. Do I have to wait until July 2011 to wash them?
Jason, give it a rest, its an urban legend.
Jason….a better fact would be that the exact same thing happened in January of 2010….that’s not quite as far back as 2004…it was just a stupid hoax put out to see who is gullible enough to believe what it says rather than check the facts.
It is quite simple to use the brute-force method of simply looking ahead at calendars for October of future years to find out the next 5 Friday/Saturday/Sunday October. I get 0ctober 2021.
Who cares!
How about we quit saying “a better fact” and move on with our lives? YAY!!!! Everyone has a life now!
Sadly, this is my life.
not so sad…I read all your postings and usually enjoy them very much!
both are a bit sad, but so am I for pointing it out.
(sigh…)
It happened January 2010; only 9 months ago!
It says “October” in the paragraph.
This also happened in October of 1999
and will again in October 2021
Oh and October 2004, sorry
Another way to obviously debunk this one is the fact that you can reuse a calendar 11 years after the year it’s meant for as that’s how long it takes to cometely come back to where you started.
Reusing your calendar, how very environmental of you. Except then you will have to erase all of your old appts and things
Are we talking Gregorian or Chinese lunar calendar…? Because the next tenth month with five Fridays will indeed be 823 years from now according to the later. Hmmm.
The chinese calendar repeats itself too, so this cannot be true of the chinese calendar either. Their calendar, which is used in more than china is a lunar calendar, based on the moon phases. All calendars are cyclic, A complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five cycles of 12 years each. In checking the 1999 chinese calendar it is the same as it is this year, and the gregorian calendar also is the same as it is in 2010. Therefore, the statements made cannot possibly be true, either for our calendar or the chinese calendar.
so the 5 days repaeted ting is about the month not the days? coz i also know it happened in jan so what?
Well…. I posted this Monday on my fb page.. and was offered a great job today (Wed.) …. been out of full time work for 3 years… so … your point is?????
The point is, it could very well have happened without your posting the silly thing on your FB.
GT, google “Correlation does not imply causation”
I SUFFER DISABILITY WITH 3 EYES DISORDERS SO I THINK THIS IS A HOAXZ AND I AM NOT SUPERSTITIOUS I AM COLOR BLIND AND ALMOST STARVE END OF LOOOOOOONG MOS ON DISABLILITY PENSION PLAN AND CANNOT WORK DULL LIFE
You can reuse calanders every 6 years. I have one from 2004 I just got done using. I kept it because it’s Trigun, and I like the art.
Hang on, surely neither six nor eleven year cycles can be used to reuse calendars? If I had a calendar from 2000 – a leap year – then I’d be able to reuse it in 2006 or 2011? But neither of those are leap years, so wouldn’t there be an erroneous February 29th on it second-time-round?
The cycles go 6-5-6-11 and start over again. That will make your leap years work
Friday 1971-10-01 – Sunday 1971-10-31
Friday 1976-10-01 – Sunday 1976-10-31
Friday 1982-10-01 – Sunday 1982-10-31
Friday 1993-10-01 – Sunday 1993-10-31
Friday 1999-10-01 – Sunday 1999-10-31
Friday 2004-10-01 – Sunday 2004-10-31
Friday 2010-10-01 – Sunday 2010-10-31
Friday 2021-10-01 – Sunday 2021-10-31
Friday 2027-10-01 – Sunday 2027-10-31
Friday 2032-10-01 – Sunday 2032-10-31
Puggan,
Did you notice the pattern in your list of dates. There is a 6-5-6-11 cycle which repeats itself unless a non-leap year century is encountered so the cycle will be broken in 2100 but will resume a few years later.
And I thought I was the only anal retentive nerd who invalidated kind of this stuff with detailed impunity.
It drives me nuts when sheeple forward this kind of stuff without thinking. The fact that these same sheeple buy new computers every few years, breed and function in society disproves Darwin. LOL!
If you check the calendar for 2011 you will see that October also has 5 Sundays and 5 Saturdays. : )
Given the full rules regarding leap year, the longest time you would ever need to wait to reuse a calendar would be 40 years.
Example:
In 2072 February will have 5 Mondays
Next Occurrence:
In 2112 February will have 5 Mondays
Not quite as interesting as 800+ years
im hearing its an Asian proverb… isnt their calendar different than ours.. being that we pretty much base our time off of the birth of Jesus.. which is also questionable..
We use the Julian calendar. We don’t base our time off the birth of Jesus, we base our holidays around it. The calendar was in use before the spread of Christianity.
the five fri, sat, sun thing every 823 years is correct when used in conjunction with the first day of the month being a new moon–july 2011
Jonathan,
I think you will find that the calendar repeats itself every 28 years.
Jack
What is the significance of the number 823 in the hoax about 5 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays occurring in July, 2011. It turns out that 823 years from 2011 will be 2834 and in July that year there will be 5 Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. So the phenomenon does not repeat itself every 823 years.
Jack
that is way too much math for me to figure out and why does this even matter? can you please enlighten me? thanks
Okay, let’s end this once and for all (yeah, like that’s gonna happen as long as sheep have email)
This happens on a cycle every 6, then 5, then 6, then, 11 years. Feng Phooey you mean.
Here is the schedule for July. Like David Emery said at the top, “In any 31-day month, whatever days of the week the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd fall on will occur a total of five times. If a month starts with Friday-Saturday-Sunday, it will have a total of 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. If it starts with Sunday-Monday-Tuesday, it will have a total of 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays, and 5 Tuesdays. And so on.”
2005, 6 years later…
2011, 5 years later…
2016, 6 years later…
2022, 11 years later…
2033, 6 years later…
2039, 5 years later…
2044, 6 years later…
2050, 11 years later…
2061, 6 years later…
2067, 5 years later…
2072, 6 years later…
2078, 11 years later…
And so on, and so on, and so on, and so on…
you all are not clued up! it happens in other months yes,but not in october!!!october is the real month which this happens in. where the 5 5 5 appears once every 823 years,it DOES NOT REFER TO OTHER MONTHS PEEPS
Wrong. It happens again in the month of October in 2016. That’s 5 years from now, not 823.
Ummm…you better check your math, Sue.
I love it when people mouth off without checking their facts. I was born on September 29th 1971, which I know for a fact was a Wednesday. That means that in 1971, there were 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays in October. Every time my birthday is a Wednesday, there are 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays in October. There are only 7 different days of the week that my birthday can fall on….. so how is that going to take 823 years to come around? If you don’t believe me, check the 1971 calendar here
http://209.68.24.127/calendar/?year=1971&country=29 and even the 1965 calendar here
http://209.68.24.127/calendar/?year=1965&country=29
and 2010 here
http://209.68.24.127/calendar/?year=2010&country=29
and the list goes on.
Wouldn’t the whole thing be based on Chinese numerology not feng Shiu? Just asking…
At the risk of carrying this silliness on much too long I just wanted to add that my favorite version of this hoax is the one I just received in an email telling me that July 2012 will have 5 Fridays, Saturday and Sundays. A “calendar page” for July was included showing that this would happen. Unfortunately July 2012 starts on a Sunday and so 1) the calendar shown wasn’t right and nor the statement about the 5 Fri, Sat and Sun days occurring. The 843 days was obvious bunk. I think it’s a great example of how people can mindlessly believe something they are told, see written, sent to them in an email, etc. etc. Was good for a laugh, though.