# Quote ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 15, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-id/408107 "2007-06-15T11:21:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeffr062](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jeffr062](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffr062)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-id/408107/1 "2007-06-15T11:21:17Z")
Who said “Is there anything so rare as a day in June” Dats it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-id/408107/2 "2007-06-15T11:22:56Z")
I think you got the quote wrong, try this. [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="so+rare+as+a+day+in+June"](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22so+rare+as+a+day+in+June%22) ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-id/408107/3 "2007-06-15T15:06:47Z")
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. James Russell Lowell and boy, was he ever spot on. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-id/408107/4 "2007-06-15T18:57:23Z")
[QUOTE=vetbridge] James Russell Lowell and boy, was he ever spot on. [/QUOTE] Lessee . . . 110° yesterday 111° predicted today, currently 104° at the airport. I’m guessing he didn’t live here. Early May, maybe mid to late April is our pleasant time here. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-id/408107/5 "2007-06-15T19:43:09Z")
I remember this poem being a key piece of evidence in one of those Alfred Hitchcock kids’ mysteries collections from the early 1970s. It’s always stuck with me. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-id/408107/6 "2007-06-15T20:55:18Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I remember this poem being a key piece of evidence in one of those Alfred Hitchcock kids’ mysteries collections from the early 1970s. It’s always stuck with me. [/QUOTE] Me too! “Rare stamp” was the answer, referring to the British Guiana 1c magenta, and letting the young protagonist know that “GUIANA,” spelled backwards, was the combination to the safe in which he was locked. He was able to get out early and the bad guy was caught. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-id/408107/7 "2007-06-18T14:05:10Z")
That’s it! It’s coming back to me now. Wasn’t the story named something like “The Three Mice,” from the phrase “my solicitor,” which the rich old stamp collector was trying to say over the mansion’s intercom after he got shot (“I suspect my sssssssssss…”)? ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-id/408107/8 "2007-06-18T14:59:33Z")
Pogo Possum (or Churchy LaFemme) once said it, IIRC. Albert countered that the while the 29th of Feb is much rarer, it can’t hold a candle to the 42nd of April