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To: blam

Astronomically speaking, the dog days ended last week.


23 posted on 08/12/2021 9:40:44 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: Romulus
"Astronomically speaking, the dog days ended last week."

Astronomically speaking says you.. I got'a ask, what does that mean??

25 posted on 08/12/2021 9:50:53 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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To: Romulus
Astronomically speaking, the dog days ended last week.
Glad you pointed that out. The "dog star," Sirius, rises in the Egypt mid July, which marks the rise of the Nile. In other cultures the "dog days" begin with July heat and people become "star struck."
56 posted on 08/12/2021 4:33:51 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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