I always took it that way as well purely from the standpoint of practicality and good sense ("Oh... 8 MORE Maid-a-Milking... I hope you plan to give me ten Cows-a-Swelling tomorrow...." 
) Taken literally, however, the song does say the whole list is given anew each day. For no good reason.
) Taken literally, however, the song does say the whole list is given anew each day. For no good reason.It's just weird
I also find it interesting that summing all the ordinals 1-12 then adding THAT to the sum of all ordinals except the largest, recursively, yields the number of days in a 12 month year, minus 1. I am certain there is something mysterious and awe inspiring behind that, probably involving the Golden Mean, the Masons and Simon Magus. 
Meh, numerology, one could point out that it could be 12 higher by just acknowledging partridge and pear tree as separate gifts, for that matter a 4 week 13 month calendar with 'Smarch' that celebrated one of the solstices as free day or something would have 364. Anyway it's a 'tetrahedral number', like a triangular number (1-3-6-10-15-21) only 3D like a pyramid, and those are 1, 4, 10, 20, 35, 56, 84, 120, 165, 220, 286, 364, 455... you do them with stacked cannonballs, if you want a visual, but the physical significance is a pyramid, so I guess Mason if you want one of those
EDIT: Also, you missed a MATH question. *points, laughs* 
Particularly since it was the only one I missed, damn it, I was sure when I went to the answers I'd finally have a 10/10. My brain just automatically inserted n(n+1)/2 in there, which for approximation I usually think of as half the square, like that 100 handshakes problem. My math wasn't what was wrong, my core assumption was wrong, so painful to the ego or not, it really wasn't a math question that I missed. Personally I think 78 is a perfectly legit answer too.
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King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
Christmas
- 16/12/2011 01:16:56 PM
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- 16/12/2011 01:19:26 PM
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Four. Got two unfortunate guesses on the dates, I guess. And number four is just lame. *NM*
- 16/12/2011 11:10:45 PM
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*NM*
9/10, interesting, missed #9 of all things
- 16/12/2011 08:21:07 PM
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Ya know, that song seems kinda strange on reflection
- 16/12/2011 08:27:14 PM
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Yeah, they do interpret it rather strangely there... but I guess grammatically it makes sense.
- 16/12/2011 11:16:56 PM
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I have always considered it ambiguous, personally.
- 17/12/2011 01:34:46 PM
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Yeah, it was a rough one to have missed
- 17/12/2011 07:52:22 PM
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How exactly is this being scored? 14/17
- 17/12/2011 01:25:54 PM
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- 17/12/2011 01:25:54 PM
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Also, I cry foul on #4.
- 17/12/2011 01:27:59 PM
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You obviously weren't raised Catholic
- 17/12/2011 05:22:51 PM
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No, but I have a good friend who is Catholic and attends a Midnight Mass seemingly every week.
- 17/12/2011 07:19:17 PM
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any chance your girlfriend was going to Midnight Mass with him? *NM*
- 22/12/2011 01:22:26 PM
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