On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 12:28:03 PM UTC-4, Brian W Lawrence wrote:
> On 12/08/2017 17:05, RaspingDrive wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 12, 2017 at 9:43:55 AM UTC-4, *skriptis wrote:
> >> <
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12>
> >>
> >>
> >> August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years ) in
> >> the Gregorian calendar.
> >> There are 141 days remaining until the end of the year.
> >> This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday
> >> or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57),
> >> and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday
> >> (56).
> >>
> >>
> >> Yet it happened. It's Saturday. The fact something is not likely,
> >> doesn't mean it can't happen.
> >
> > "Slightly less likely" became "not likely"? Nice Whisperian touch.
>
> You beat me to that. Aug 12 2017 was 'always' going to be a Saturday -
> or at least since the present calendar was established.
>
What Skriptis probably meant was that if one chose a random August 12 in a 400 year period, one was marginally less likely to have it fall on a Saturday. How he extrapolated "slightly less likely" to infer "not likely" beats me. In the Whisperian world such tactics are common place.