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>That's just the type of question that would appear on QI. Apparently people were up in arms at the time, demanding back the missing days that had been taken from their lives.>
>Do you think if they redid the calendar today, some people would complain about the exact same "problem"?
Perhaps other stupid complaints would arise. Such as, that the new calendar is "un-American".
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
