# Enough with the fucking full moon names! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626 "2020-02-08T14:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/1 "2020-02-08T14:41:34Z")
Anyone noticed how it is a thing now to have a cute name for every full moon now, often with a “super” tacked on the front? For instance, right now we have a “[Super Snow Moon](https://www.al.com/news/2020/02/super-snow-moon-2020-bright-full-moon-will-light-up-the-night-sky-tonight.html).” Coming later this year are Super Worm Moon Super Pink Moon Super Flower Moon Strawberry MoonBuck Moon Sturgeon Moon Harvest Moon Corn Moon Hunter’s Moon Beaver Moon (Really? Freaking _ **Beaver Moon** _?) Cold Moon Is this utterly idiotic, or am I standing alone? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/2 "2020-02-08T14:50:06Z")
Everyone’s favorite: ``` (|) ``` \*Kiss My Ass Moon. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/3 "2020-02-08T14:58:48Z")
They are translations of Algonquin names for full moons (months), which apparently were in widespread use over Northeast North America, to the Great Lakes. The ‘super’ is a modern astronomical term referring to the apparent size of the moon due to its closeness to the earth. Beavers were important aquatic rodents before they were your hurr hurr he said _beaver_. They shaped a great part of the ecosystem wherever they lived. Thinking that European colonists usurping native names for things is … problematic … is a legitimate complaint, but “cute”? Let’s hear YOUR moon names. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/4 "2020-02-08T15:11:36Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Let’s hear YOUR moon names. That’s just it–I don’t fucking name every full moon of the year. My list of names for the full moon: Full moon. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/5 "2020-02-08T15:13:57Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > That’s just it–I don’t fucking name every full moon of the year. My list of names for the full moon: > Full moon. Amen brother. I was going to post this myself. Routine astronomy turned into click bait. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/6 "2020-02-08T15:14:40Z")
Thank you for this. I was actually thinking about starting a thread about this, probably in MPSIMS though. Not the Pit. When did this crap start? I vaguely remember the first few times I heard about a “named” moon I thought “oh cool. This must be something special. Maybe bigger or something. I’ll have to remember to take a look at it.” But then it kept happening. And each time the moon just looked like the same old moon. Now I just try to ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/7 "2020-02-08T15:18:34Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Thinking that European colonists usurping native names for things is … problematic … is a legitimate complaint Oh, for fuck’s sake, no it isn’t. (Like others in this thread, including the OP, I personally don’t have a separate name for every full moon. If you want to have a separate name for every full moon, knock yourself out–and I don’t give a damn if you’re Algonquin or not–but it is a bit twee.) ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/8 "2020-02-08T15:39:26Z")
Except for that Moons Over My Hammy. Hold the toast and the home fries and that shit is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/9 "2020-02-08T16:00:42Z")
The super blood wolf moon was cool. Admit it. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/10 "2020-02-08T16:01:21Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Routine astronomy turned into click bait. Just like the weather. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/11 "2020-02-08T16:08:53Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Anyone noticed how it is a thing now to have a cute name for every full moon now, often with a “super” tacked on the front? Umm… no? I’ve heard of a “harvest moon,” probably even before Neil Young named an album that, but I don’t think I’ve encountered any of the others. ---
**Author:** ![Razncain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@Razncain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razncain)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/12 "2020-02-08T16:24:12Z")
Wow, more full moon names than I realized. I see someone mentioned the Wolf Moon. Blue Moon is another full moon, quite popular in songs and sayings. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/13 "2020-02-08T16:33:14Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > When did this crap start? I think just in the last couple-three years. ([Here](https://www.newsweek.com/full-worm-moon-march-supermoon-spring-equinox-1359720) is a full worm supermoon and [here](https://www.newsweek.com/september-full-moon-rare-friday-13th-micro-harvest-1458263) is a Friday 13th micro harvest moon.) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/14 "2020-02-08T16:44:22Z")
I think gynecologists should adopt this tradition, “So, looking forward to your super sturgeon harvest period?” ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/15 "2020-02-08T18:53:15Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > When did this crap start? Well, I’m no historian, but Wiki quotes, “A lunar calendar was found at Warren Field in Scotland and has been dated to c. 8000 BC, during the Mesolithic period. Some scholars argue for lunar calendars still earlier…” ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/16 "2020-02-08T19:09:01Z")
Let me know when Sailor Moon is coming. Or even better Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/17 "2020-02-08T19:15:38Z")
It’s the damned Astrologer’s [fault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon): > [@](#): > > The name supermoon was coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979 Shoulda hung them when we had the chance. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/18 "2020-02-08T19:38:26Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Just like the weather. As a survivor of the most recent Major Gargantuan Bomb Cyclone Tornadic Supercell Squall Line, I beg to differ. If they hadn’t named it, we would’ve thought it was just a plain cold front. And where would we be now? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/19 "2020-02-08T19:45:02Z")
Most cultures named the full moons–it’s no different than us arbitrarily deciding to go with our calendar month names and actually makes MORE sense since the full moons are way more consistent and regular and accurately mark the progression of the year. We’re just seeing more and different names from different cultures is all. It doesn’t hurt any of us and it’s kinda interesting to see what other peoples in other times decided was important to emphasize while marking the year into manageable chunks. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-full-moon-names/847626/20 "2020-02-08T19:50:57Z")
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