In an announcement which may not come as a shock to readers from the United States, Barack Obama has declared that there will be no such year as 2013, which will now instead be referred to as 2014a.
“The issue at hand is our national triskaidekaphobia,” the President explained at an earlier press conference. “Many of our citizens are so scared of the number thirteen that there is no Room Thirteen in the majority of hotels, and buildings of sufficient height very often skip straight from the twelfth floor to the fourteenth.
“Of course, it isn’t possible for us to just skip a year with an unfortunate number in it and expect to keep pace with the rest of the world, that’s why we’re going to have two 2014s to keep everybody happy.”
Yeah, I think the US is now certifiably insane. Who wants to join it at Passwall in the Shivering Isles?