My favourite, of course, the pataphysic calendar.

It possesses some funny characteristics : each month has a Friday the 13th, it contains virtual days (hunyadi, which become shrove hunyadi when they really exist, like the 29th of gueules sometimes), and its celebrates things really important. At last this is a perpetual calendar.

For the technical point of view, it counts 13 months of 28 days, 2 days out of the weeks (the 29th of gidouille and, in the leap years, the 29th of gueules). The months are : absolu, haha, as, sable, décervelage, gueules, pédale, clinamen, palotin, merdre, gidouille, tatane, phalle.

The calendar begins on the birth day of Alfred Jarry, founder and intellectual leader of the Pataphysic (born in Laval, France, on the 8th of september 1873).


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