Well, it seems to be time for another simpering genuflection to the Gregorian calendar in the guise of lauding a transcendental constant. This is the same thinking that causes the doomsday chiliasts (to use Carl Sagan’s phrase) to get all het up any time there’s a date with three or more zeroes or sixes.
I’ve railed against the Vulgar Pi Day before, so I shan’t re-rant.
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Isn’t “doomsday chiliasts” a bit redundant.
Nevertheless, something does need to be done with these chiliasts manquees, these neo-Lullists, these madonna-wannabee-cabalists, these calorie-counting, stone-worshipping, modern-day faux-druids, these pythagorean bean counters — no doubt they are even vegetarians. Nuts to ’em.
Ah, James. How can I play the curmudgeon when you remind me that there are still speakers of English who know how to decline adjectives?
Declining adjectives has made me the man I am today.