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

[Senegoid]

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.

Snopes overthinks it here, 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

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.

[needscoffee]

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

[ParallelLines]

@DrDeth

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.

[RTFirefly]

@Folly

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…