On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
An equivalent (and easier method) is as follows:
1) Make a fist, knuckles up.
2) Starting with the nearest knuckle, counting both knuckles and hollows in
between,
incant the months. January, March, May, July will fall on knuckles and
therefore have 31
days, the months that fall in the gaps don't. Now start from the _front_
again,
giving August, October and December.
Easy when you know how.
Ooohhh!! I like it!
I never _could_ remember that damn rhyme. Fists I understand.
Doc