gjm comments on Open Thread, February 1-14, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 03 February 2013 05:40:27PM *  0 points [-]

last night [...] because it's pegged to the actual holiday of Twelfth Night

which is in early January. Is that just because arranging parties takes time, or did someone get Twelfth Night mixed up with Candlemas?

[EDITED to add: great idea, though.]

Comment author: palladias 04 February 2013 04:16:47AM 2 points [-]

Not everyone was back in the city in time for normal Twelfth Night, so we consulted some schismatic calendars and picked the Twelfth Night of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, but then I had to go out of state, so we finally used doodle to have a heretical Twelfth Night.

As the other replier pointed out, we did happen to land on Candlemas/the Feast of the Presentation.

Comment author: Salutator 03 February 2013 09:24:56PM 1 point [-]

But if you missed Twelfth Night, Candlemas would be a Schelling point for rescheduling, because it's the other "Christmas now definitely over" holiday.