<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><p dir=ltr>I try to use the definitions most people use, otherwise everyone gets more confused. Most the time when someone uses blue moon, they mean to say it is a rare occurrence, but is expected to occur a few times a year. </p>
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<td valign="top"><div dir='ltr'>It turned out Dr. Joe did indeed ask the proper question 'What is your definition of a blue moon?' My definition had been the second full moon within the same calendar month. It turns out there are more definitions as Tom points out below. And it turns out that last night's moon was a 'seasonal blue moon'. I finally found a link to it. Thanks all!<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.weather.com/news/science/next-blue-moon-happens-tuesday-20130819">http://www.weather.com/news/science/next-blue-moon-happens-tuesday-20130819</a><br><br>-Scott<br><br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">CC: scooterd408@hotmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com<br>From: thansen@moscow.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Once in a blue moon<br>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 08:23:02 -0700<br>To: philosopher.joe@gmail.com<br><br><div
style=""><span></span></div><div><div style=""><span></span></div><div><div style="">Dr. J.(oe Campbell) inquires:</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">"What is your definition of a blue moon?"</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Well, Joe, that depends . . .</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Are we talking about the celestial body "blue moon"?</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><img src="cid:1.175593800@web161305.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" alt="image.jpeg" id="ecxF454A4F3-F6C1-46D7-A7F0-77B3502BBB25" height="240" width="320"></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Or are we talking about the Oakland Athletics ace pitcher from years past, John "Blue Moon" Odom?</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><img src="cid:2.175593800@web161305.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" alt="image.jpeg" id="ecx8AE1DD10-312D-433E-9514-0369CF308B74" height="412" width="294"></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">In any
case . . . </div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><div style=""><span style="text-align:left;">"This month had a full, then a new;</span></div><span style=""><span style="text-align:left;"><div style="">Now a second full moon comes in view.</div></span><span style="text-align:left;"><div style="">As a metaphor there</div></span><span style="text-align:left;"><div style="">For the odd and the rare,</div></span><span style="text-align:left;"><div style="">This <b>moon</b> we refer to as <b>blue</b>."</div></span></span></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Perhaps "Blue Moon" was best explained back in the 50s by the Marcels . . .</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Blue_Moon_Marcels.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Blue_Moon_Marcels.mp3</a></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap;"> </span></div><div style="">If that explanation was too fast for ome of you, maybe Billie Holiday can slow it down for you . . .</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Blue_Moon_Billie_Holiday.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Blue_Moon_Billie_Holiday.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap;"> </span><br><div style="">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style=""><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style=""> </div><div style=""><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium;">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size:medium;">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:medium;">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style=""><font size="3"><span style=""><br></span></font></div><div style=""><font size="3"><span style="">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div><div style=""><br>On Aug 21, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Joe Campbell <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote
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<div dir="ltr">I haven't read any details about this, but there is a blue moon out tonight. And we won't have another one until 2015. Considering that it's Aug 20-21, there is max a 3 week window since the last full moon. And with a 3 week window, it seems to me that this phenomenon would occur more than once in a blue moon.<br> </div>
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