Until I saw it on this board, I’d never heard righty-tighty, etc. It’s always been clockwise/counter-clockwise (or anti-clockwise).
And on matters clockwise, it was only a few years ago I realised that clockwise was the direction the Sun appears to travel, but only in the NORTHERN hemisphere. I’ve never been north of the equator so had never seen the clockwise motion of the Sun through the sky. (BTW, I’m 56, so it has been a long time to realise that.)
And what if I use an underhand grip?
I’m starting to feel some sympathy for panache45’s dad…
I had always thought that trees and other plants got most of their mass from the soil, and figured that the soil wasn’t disappearing around trees due to dead leaves. After growing a large orange tree in a pot and not seeing any change in the level of dirt, I realized my thinking of long ago was wrong. Boy was I surprised to discover that trees are formed out of thin air!
No kidding. For most people this is not that complicated.
Last year, for some reason, a chiropractor gave a presentation in the breakroom at work for anyone who would submit to it (actually they bribed us with sandwiches). I wish I would have recorded it- the guy claimed to have cured a kid’s peanut allergy.
When people are sweating bullets because everything they do is wrong, especially as a kid, nothing is simple. Everything has the potential of being a trick question, like the term Stage Left. Whose left? Whose right? Why don’t I know?
Hell, I still have no idea which is the left side of the bed. 
Actually, the Sun travels in a clockwise direction if you’re facing south, pretty much from anywhere on the Earth’s surface.
The concept of clockwise actually comes from the movement of shadows cast by objects in direct sunlight, which (conversely to the above) is observable if you’re facing north pretty much from anywhere on the Earth’s surface - from that perspective the sun appears to move counterclockwise.
Actors’ left, as they’re facing the seats. Because it makes more sense to refer to 12 people’s left instead of the director’s left as she faces the stage. (Or, according to one director I had, because actors are idiots.)
That I don’t know, but you’re not alone. I think that director may have been on to something. (Not saying you’re an idiot, you just don’t know. But *actors *who don’t know their Stage Directions are very annoying to work with.)
“Upstage” is away from the audience, and so named because of raked stages - stages which are literally built higher upstage to provide the audience a better view of what’s going on back there behind the actors in front. “Downstage” is towards the audience.
If the audience sits on three sides in a “U”, then the part with no audience is upstage, and left and right delineated from the actors’ perspective with their backs to upstage.
If the theater is in the round (audience sits on all sides), then you generally use compass directions or assign one spot “12” and use clock points.
Here’s how to remember whether a month is short or long:
Make a fist with your right hand. Start at your outside (pinky) knuckle.
Pinky knuckle = January (long)
Between pinky and ring finger = February (short)
Ring finger knuckle = March (long)
Between ring and middle fingers = April (short)
Middle knuckle = May (long)
Between middle and index fingers = June (short)
Index knuckle = July (long)
Now, switch over to your left hand, but continue counting from right to left.
Index knuckle = August (long)
Between index and middle fingers = September (short)
Middle knuckle = October (long)
Between middle and ring fingers = November (short)
Ring finger knuckle = December (long)
Hope that helps!
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Thank you, I am so glad you said that! I have told my friends that cilantro has that weird taste, and they can’t taste it. I thought it was just me.
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You’ll be glad to know that you aren’t the only one.
The best way to convince a fool that they are wrong is to let them have their way.
If the fool is your boss, definitely let them have their way. Not just because of the truth mentioned above, but because letting them have their way maximizes their potential for getting fired by their bosses. If you always manage to save them from themselves, you’re just prolonging the agony for everybody.
It’s only complicated if you think about it. Or if you’ve never driven a car.
The Beatles were in my life from birth, so much so that it wasn’t until I was a 35 year old that I realized the play on words that was going on with their name. It just didn’t occur to me.
The rhyme “Thirty days have September, April, June and November” works for me.
Well, sorta. It’s just that if you’re facing South anywhere south of the Tropic of Capricorn you’ve got your back to the midday sun, and you’ve got to look back over your own head to see it - you could sort of describe that as “clockwise” if you really wanted to, but it’s a stretch; and the shadows in those latitudes aren’t moving clockwise. (Also applies anywhere south of the Equator for half the year, and anywhere south of the Tropic of Cancer for at least some of it.)
I’ve been sitting at my desk for 10 minutes trying to decipher this and can’t. Thankfully I know the rhyme.
It did indeed. Thanks.