[Two Kids' Dad]

What the heck’s up with Ramadan? It seems to come around every 8 to 9 months and lasts for about a month and a half. Are the muzzies on some kind of funky moon-god calendar or something?

When’s the next time they’re going to all meet at the Mecca stainless steel toilet seat icon again? Maybe Israel could use that as an opportune time to... I guess I’d better not finish that thought.

[shankbear]

I will volunteer to serve the Mooselimbs a big old pile of fried pork chops to end their ramadamadingdong thingy.

[shankbear]

I will volunteer to serve the Mooselimbs a big old pile of fried pork chops to end their ramadamadingdong thingy.

[Cronos]

Are the muzzies on some kind of funky moon-god calendar or something?

Actually, they are. They follow the lunar calendar, not the solar calendar, hence their years don't match with calendar years. They also break their fast only when they sight the moon (since the moon-god Sin is the "allac" they worship)

[Eleutheria5]

It comes every 12 lunar months, which have a discrepancy of about 11 days between the corresponding 12 solar months to which Christians are accustomed. The Jewish calendar is also based on the lunar cycle, but every few years we have a 13th month to keep it synchronized with the solar cycle, so that Passover always comes out in Spring. The Islamic calendar does not have this, so Ramadan swings around the solar calendar once every 19 years, sometimes in Spring, sometimes in Fall, sometimes in Summer and sometimes in Winter. It’s pretty confusing, and can make the fast period undesirably long in Summer, or laughably short in Winter, depending on which year it is.