Our conversation about losing a day to the International Date Line prompted Jaquelyn from Ishpeming, Michigan, to share that she and her friends refer to a seemingly interminable stretch of days as a Beatles week, as in the Fab Four’s song “Eight Days a Week.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Beatles Week”
You remember our conversation about traveling across the international dateline and losing a day?
Yeah, is there a word for losing the day, right?
Right, and I don’t think we ever really came up with one.
No.
But it reminded Jacqueline Lambert of Ishpeming, Michigan, of the term Beatles Week.
Beatles week?
Like the Beatle is the bug?
No, the Beatles like John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Yeah.
She says that when she and her friends are talking about something that takes really long,
They’ll say, oh, it’s longer than a Beatles week.
Or if they’re casually mentioning something that’s nine days away, they’ll say, oh, that’s longer than a Beatles week.
Eight days a week.
Exactly.
Nice.
I like that.
A Beatles week.
All right.
Sing the rest of it.
Now.
