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From: larryc@teleport.com (Larry Caldwell)
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Subject: Re: Blue Moon - not once a year
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 11:32:13 -0700
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In article <31D37E32.595F@syix.com>, Pan <pan@syix.com> wrote:

> In the interval from 1984 to 2000 there have been, or will be, two Full Moons in 
> the following months; 

[deletia]

> 1999 January 

> 1999 March. 
 
> It can be seen that in 1999 there will be two such months with only February 
> between them. This, to my mind, is not a rare enough phenomenon to qualify for 
> the normal use of the phrase `Once in a Blue Moon'. 

February of 1999 has no full moon at all.  There is also a solar eclipse
that month, and possibly a Leonid meteor shower.  A month without a full
moon is a *very* rare phenomenon.

Portents and omens, omens and portents.

-- Larry