a WHOLE new meaning to fin de siecle. I suspect I have misspelled that..

Yes, TEd - it should be fin de cycle of course.

I don't know, I come back from a little swim to find that I no longer serve any purpose, other than to be cut into 1000 pieces to (somehow) help identify what year it is.

It's nice to feel wanted.

Oh, did the Gregorian calendar result in a reallocation of fishy bits? Or did that just affect months?