Halloween is when?!

What's really spooky is the fact that so many people have apparently fallen for this one...c'mon! When has Halloween ever fallen on the 13th? Let alone on Friday the 13th. Halloween is celebrated, by those who do, on the 31st of October. Yes there is a 1 and a 3 in the date but the numbers are transposed.

And, Halloween is not even on a Friday this year--it falls on a Saturday. Here, I've even provided a calendar, below, so you won't even need to get up and check your own calendar!

Obviously this was started as a joke but a good number of people on Facebook fell for it and were already planning the parties. Sigh. When did we become so gullible that we'd fall for any little thing as long as it's in a cute little box and shared on Facebook? If anyone believes this meme and actually does go out trick or treating you're already a dumbass. No costume needed

October
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Phases of the moon: 4: 12: 20: 27:
Holidays and Observances: 12: Columbus Day (Most regions), 31: Halloween

Copyright 2015 Julie P. Clark

Channeling logic...

"Logic will get you from A to B but imagination will get you everywhere."

And yet another quote often attributed to Albert Einstein. Sometimes the quote starts "Logic will get you from A to Z." But there is no evidence that he ever actually said it in any of his works. Yes, this quote is attributed all over the internet to Einstein but no one cites a source. I guess a lot of folks imagined that he said it. 

When no sources are cited, that should be a clue. So, ever the curious one, I got out The Ultimate Quotable Einstein to find this quote. Hm...it is not listed in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein as a true Einstein quote. So I went to the online book and searched, thinking that maybe I missed the quote in the book. Nope. Not in The Quotable Einstein online, either. The author, Alice Calaprice, put this quote under probably not said by Einstein and she should know, as her bio states: "Alice Calaprice is a renowned expert on Albert Einstein and was a longtime senior editor at Princeton University Press. She has worked with the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein since the founding of the project, has copyedited and overseen the production of all the volumes, and administered the accompanying translation series with a grant from the National Science Foundation. She is the author of several popular books on Einstein and was a recipient of the Literary Market Place's award for individual achievement in scholarly editing."

On this page someone posts several of Einstein's quotes and gives sources. However, the "source" for this quote merely says "attributed." More like misattributed...

Another clue is that this quote can only be traced back about 10 years but to no definitive Einstein source. 

It is reported that Einstein did say something even better: "I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Source: The Saturday Evening Post, 1929 (see, I even found it and linked to it for you!)

Now, using logic (!), if Einstein did say this quote then why is there never a source cited? But if you'd rather imagine that he said it...

So logic may get you from A to B but facts will take everywhere...

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