# 20/20/2020 --how should we celebrate?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-20-2020-how-should-we-celebrate/928171>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 16, 2020, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-20-2020-how-should-we-celebrate/928171 "2020-12-16T06:43:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-20-2020-how-should-we-celebrate/928171/21 "2020-12-18T03:54:53Z")

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It’s redundant to spend too much time overthinking that riddle, as that’s already been done. Even redundantly so:

[Merriam-Webster overthinks it here.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-third-common-gry-word)

[Snopes overthinks it here](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gry/), including listing a dozen other -gry words in the English language! (The gotcha: They are not common words. Munroe’s statement of the problem doesn’t specify that the answer must be a common well-known word, but other variants of the riddle do.) All the words are either obscure or archaic or both, or variant spellings, or oddball imported foreign words.

> [@Snopes](#):
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> Some people think this puzzler’s ability to continue stumping so many people over the years makes it one of the greatest riddles ever. We disagry.

ETA: My sympathies, of course, are with Black Hat Man there. I daresay we all agry on that.

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-20-2020-how-should-we-celebrate/928171/22 "2020-12-18T04:45:39Z")

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And, of course, that riddle is now obsolete with the portmanteau “hangry”.

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**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-20-2020-how-should-we-celebrate/928171/23 "2020-12-18T06:33:21Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> remind me again, which month is the 20th? 😛

I was enjoying this until I realized that if we did have 20 months in 2020, we’d have another 8 months of Trump trying to overturn the election. 🤮

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/20-20-2020-how-should-we-celebrate/928171/24 "2020-12-18T15:28:53Z")

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> [@Folly](#):
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> If there was going to be _any_ year that secretly had 20 months, it would be this one.

Sure _seems_ like it’s had 20 months…

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