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Dear etaoin: I tried to find out when moon will be full here. I found a site with a lot of information, but the formula they give to calculate date of full moon is too
complicated for me. See if you can comprehend it.
http://cp.yahoo.net/search/cache?p=Almanac+full+moon+Los+Angeles&ei=UTF-8&cop=mss&url=KJ08B1zZgxUJ:www.voyagenow.com/travel-references/en/wikipedia/f/fu/full_moon.html
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In came Mrs. Widdup. She was comely to the eye, fair, flustered, forty and foxy.
"Higgins is out, sir," she said, with a smile suggestive of vibratory massage. "He went to post a letter. Can I do anything for you, sir?"Thanks for the reminder of O. Henry’s genius, Bill. I haven’t read a thing by him since I was 14 when I devoured everything I could get my hands on, and you’ve inspired me to revisit the old master. Is this the site you read from by any chance? http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/ohenry/bl-ohenry-marry.htmI note this sentence seems to have a clear spelling mistake (since I take it that it should read “Now if you’ll excuse…”):
“Not if you'll excuse me, lady. It'll be a pleasure to fix things up for you any way you please."That confirmed my wondering if Albany grabs is just a typo for Albany grass – what do you think? I have a collection of his short stories at home and can try to LIU tonight, unless someone else has a print copy of this story to hand.
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thanks, Bill. like the Moon, that math is way over my head... 
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Dear Mav: I tried to think of a typo that would make more
sense. But he was describing things to be smelled in NYC
that were not pleasant. I couldn't think of anything that
fitted that requirement.
Dear etaoin: I was disappointed that I could not find out when the moon will be full here. I remember Abraham Lincoln
winning a lawsuit, by showing that a witness lied when he
said he saw crime by light of full moon, because almanac
showed moon was not visible on that night.
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> things to be smelled in NYC that were not pleasant
Yes, I'm not too sure in suggesting it, either; but it did sound at least a possibility, in that qualifying the smell of grass as "Albany grass" might have had some specific connotation. You know, like da godfatha might refer to a 'cement overcoat'?! But it's really just a WAG :)
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a WAG for Albany grabs might be apples (almost rotten apples).. NY is a still a big apple producer, and by
May, many of the 'keeper' apples would be 'going off'
(they would have been shipped downriver from albany...and sold in poor neighborhoods.
one image (in NYC) of the great depression of the 1930 was apple sellers on the street. 1929 and 1930 were bumper years for apple crops, the market was flooded with out of work people hawking apples.. (think of Runyon's stories of the time.)
(NY Whitefish are 'extinct' now for the most part. 99.9% of NYC's waste water is treated.. when it wasn't, the north(hudson) river used to rich with used condoms that would fill with water and float downstream.) NYer have interesting names for things.
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Dr Bill, do you have a 2004 calendar? Most of them show the 4 phases. Otherwise I'm sure there's an easy-to-read chart on the net. Here's one, but there are surely better ones out there: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.html
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Dear AS: ever since I got a computer, I have relied on it for calendar. I used to make my own with an art program. I'm still surprised that I couldn't find what I wanted to know by searching for "almanac full moon". P.S. I tried once more, and this time I struck paydirt: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.html#y2004It said full moon was Jan 7th, so, etaoin, I was not "mooning".
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May I respectfully submit, Dr Bill, that that is the very same URL I gave you, except stretched to the current year. Glad you like it.
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Dear AS: Another senile moment. Edit: Signals over.
Look at the times. Your post had not appeared when
I posted.
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