Well well well!
Here is a quite small post of backgammon content:
stevieweller.tumblr.com has been posting a few pilfered Instagram photographs, including #catgammon, #oldgammon, and #backgammonhearth! That's right people, actual pictures of backgammon boards with fireplaces!!! Seriously, people, #backgammon on Instagram is just fantastic.
BKGM.COM is more fantastic. I don't even know how much this is true, cause I haven't yet read everything on this site, Backgammon Galore! Did I already talk about Backgammon Galore! in another post? I certainly hope so. It is the best backgammon website, IMHO.
I will close with a tale. Once upon a time, there lived some gods. We know about them because they were worshiped by the ancient Egyptians. Now, at this time there was some royal family drama, and maybe there was a king who refused to die, ah, it was Amen-Re. I forget all the details, but Thoth, the god of Th, told him that Nut was going to give birth and one of these kids would take his place, to which Amen-Re replied "Nut won't give birth in any month! Lock it in!!"
So of course, Thoth went to the Moon, where he found Khons playing backgammon or something like it and listening to "Yourself or Someone Like You". The two threw down for a few high stakes games, and Thoth came away a big winner. His prize? Moonlight. Enough of it to create 5 days. And just to be the smart-alex that he was and had always been, Thoth made these five days exist outside of any month (all twelve of which had exactly 30 days). Take that, Amen-Re. The babies who're going to take your place as the new rulers of Egyptnow have a landing pad on the calendar. Here, sign their birthday card, will ya?
The connection between backgammon and the moon is inexplicably strong to this very day, but our calendar has reverted to an odd collection of months with 28, 30, 31, and sometimes 29 days. If you stare long enough at the moon while holding a backgammon board, or perhaps if you take a long bike ride all alone in the middle of the night, you might come to the conclusion that perhaps each of our 12 months should once again have 30 days, and the leftover 5ish days in one year should be just that that, left over and out of any months. Days outside of months, a powerful loophole.
And with that, I will say that I am writing this in a state of late night space madness, and I'm going to schedule this blog to auto post this, because on the 22nd of this month I'm leaving on a trip to the Jungle.
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness?
Here is a quite small post of backgammon content:
stevieweller.tumblr.com has been posting a few pilfered Instagram photographs, including #catgammon, #oldgammon, and #backgammonhearth! That's right people, actual pictures of backgammon boards with fireplaces!!! Seriously, people, #backgammon on Instagram is just fantastic.
BKGM.COM is more fantastic. I don't even know how much this is true, cause I haven't yet read everything on this site, Backgammon Galore! Did I already talk about Backgammon Galore! in another post? I certainly hope so. It is the best backgammon website, IMHO.
I will close with a tale. Once upon a time, there lived some gods. We know about them because they were worshiped by the ancient Egyptians. Now, at this time there was some royal family drama, and maybe there was a king who refused to die, ah, it was Amen-Re. I forget all the details, but Thoth, the god of Th, told him that Nut was going to give birth and one of these kids would take his place, to which Amen-Re replied "Nut won't give birth in any month! Lock it in!!"
So of course, Thoth went to the Moon, where he found Khons playing backgammon or something like it and listening to "Yourself or Someone Like You". The two threw down for a few high stakes games, and Thoth came away a big winner. His prize? Moonlight. Enough of it to create 5 days. And just to be the smart-alex that he was and had always been, Thoth made these five days exist outside of any month (all twelve of which had exactly 30 days). Take that, Amen-Re. The babies who're going to take your place as the new rulers of Egyptnow have a landing pad on the calendar. Here, sign their birthday card, will ya?
The connection between backgammon and the moon is inexplicably strong to this very day, but our calendar has reverted to an odd collection of months with 28, 30, 31, and sometimes 29 days. If you stare long enough at the moon while holding a backgammon board, or perhaps if you take a long bike ride all alone in the middle of the night, you might come to the conclusion that perhaps each of our 12 months should once again have 30 days, and the leftover 5ish days in one year should be just that that, left over and out of any months. Days outside of months, a powerful loophole.
And with that, I will say that I am writing this in a state of late night space madness, and I'm going to schedule this blog to auto post this, because on the 22nd of this month I'm leaving on a trip to the Jungle.
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness/
When does Jungle Madness become Space Madness?
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