Finally! Another dumb question to answer.
Some silly Ape asks:
- "Dear gorgeous
I read your blog for a few days now. Quite funny!
One thing that I don’t understand is what the day numbers mean? You title your posts Day 1276. etc. What does this mean?"
{…Gorgeous plays another round of "Tip The Pug" with ScapeGoat (the dog) while he ponders the question…}
First off, you didn’t capitalize the first letter of my name. Names should always have the first letter capitalized. Especially mine!
Second, funny? I’m not sure what you mean by this. I simply talk about the world as it is.
Now, onto your primary question. "What do the day numbers mean?" I didn’t think this would be all that confusing, but I will clarify anyway.
It’s my age. Today, I’m 1277 days old. You Apes like to bundle the days up into weeks, months, and years. Cats have no need to do this. In Ape terms this would make me 3.4986301369863013698630136986301 years old. It’s much easier to say 1277 days, is it not?
Take a 30 year old female Ape for example. She would never use a large day number like 10,950 to describe her age. Hell, she’s even reluctant to admit to being 30 and will lie and say 29. This makes no sense to me. There’s not a whole lot of difference between being 10,585 and 10,950 days old, is there?
For me, it’s easier to remember past events too. For instance, on Day 1273, I was tossed outside for the day while the Apes had their Christmas dinner. This will always be Day 1273 to me. Not 3 years ago, or 10 years ago, etc.
No wonder you Apes have such a hard time keeping track of things. Lumping the days together into weeks, months, and years, instantly requires math to get your point across.
And let’s face it, some of you aren’t exactly the brightest variable in the algorithm, are you?
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