Isn't a little goofiness good for us all?
2007-11-27 23:49:14 · 8 answers · asked by in a handbasket 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Well, I had a conversation about this subject just a few nights ago when we had the full moon.
One of my coworkers wanted to use the term moony in the forecast. There is no regulation that says you can not. But, it was tried as a term back in the early 1980s but many people became upset and complained because they thought that the term meant they were being mooned. (The Ray Steven's song The Streak was still somewhat popular at the time.) Due to this connotation and mild insinuation, the term is not allowed in the text forecast products but a full or partial moon is allowed on clear nights in graphic forecast pictorials.
Since the forecasts now are nearly always computer generated now days, the term moony is not even in the text formatrer
that is currently being used.
I like the term myself and would use it when the moon was full or nearly so. But, I still need a job and I haven't used that term. Yet.
2007-11-28 04:37:00 · answer #1 · answered by Water 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because of it's cycle it's possible for the moon not to even be in the night sky some nights.
2007-11-28 09:00:30 · answer #2 · answered by John E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the moon gives a little or a lot of light, depending on her phase. The inconstant moon, you know.
2007-11-28 07:59:08 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps it's a dry moonless night
2007-11-28 14:54:49 · answer #4 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because night doesn't begin with the moonrise and end with moonset.
2007-11-28 08:11:21 · answer #5 · answered by nichol 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love silliness.
2007-11-28 07:51:29 · answer #6 · answered by CrankyYankee 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm....that's a pretty good point! LOL
2007-11-28 07:52:14 · answer #7 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well why is the plural of ''tooth", "teeth."
But why not the plural of ''booth'' not ''beeth''?
2007-11-28 11:53:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋