September 7, 2025 • 25 mins
Today on Happy Pants... or was is tomorrow? or Yesterday? But if Happy Pants day is today is yesterday tomorrow?
Join Geraldine and Rebecca as they get all muddled up in the days of the week thanks to the help of Happy Pants. They delve into how the days of the week got their names, why we measure time in the ways we do and learn some new big big words. While also having fun and dancing...of course!
We also get a story about a little girl named Monday, who nobody likes...
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S1 (00:13):
One, two, three. It's happy pants.
S2 (00:30):
Good day, and welcome to Happy Pants, a show especially
for kids and especially for you. My name is Geraldine
and my name is Rebecca. And together, we're your happy
pants team for today. Are you wearing your happy pants today?
We are today. Mine are a dark, warm red. This
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color red reminds me of the taste of tomato sauce
on hot chips. Oh, I.
S3 (00:58):
Know that taste. My happy pants are red too. And
this kind of red makes me think of the feel
of warm, snuggly pajamas after a nice hot shower. Actually, Geraldine,
you look all red, as if you've been rushing around
or doing some strenuous exercise.
S2 (01:21):
Big word alert. Strenuous means requiring great effort. Actually, Rebecca,
I was a bit flustered because when I woke up
this morning, I thought it was yesterday and that today
was tomorrow. Yesterday is the day before today, so that
would mean Happy Pants wasn't due till tomorrow.
S3 (01:41):
But there will be a Happy pants tomorrow, the same
as today. So today will be yesterday. Tomorrow?
S2 (01:49):
Yes. But I thought that today was the day before.
The day before tomorrow. So it was yesterday. Today.
S3 (01:55):
Oh, whatever day it is, it doesn't explain why you're
all red and flustered.
S2 (02:02):
Well, when I found my red happy pants waiting for me,
I realised that today wasn't yesterday. And if today was
really today, Then I was running late and I'd better
rush to get ready quick. Smart.
S3 (02:17):
All. Okay, so you can stop Flustering. Because today is
really today. And today will be yesterday. Tomorrow.
S2 (03:35):
Well, now we've sorted that. We should check our pockets.
You go first, Rebecca.
S3 (03:40):
Happy pants have very unusual pockets. Things just appear, and
we certainly didn't put them there.
S2 (03:49):
Well, sometimes they're huge. At least they're huge when we
get them out. But they were small enough to fit
when they were in the pocket.
S3 (03:58):
I love the way they are tiny when I feel
them in my pocket, but they grow to proper size
when we find them. Let's see what's in this pocket
this morning. Oh, good heavens, it's a candle. A big,
thick candle thicker than my arm. Oh.
S2 (04:18):
It has rings marked round it. There must be a
reason for that.
S3 (04:22):
Hmm.
S2 (04:23):
Hmm. Oh, Rebecca, you do the thinking while I get
this big lump out of my pocket. Oh, it's a
wooden frame. And there's a glass thing inside. No, no.
Two big glass bubbles joined together by a thin tube.
And one of the bubbles has dry sand in it.
S3 (04:43):
Hmm. Mysterious and mysterious. There's something else in this pocket.
A little book. Oh. The cover says Daily Diary.
S2 (04:56):
And there's a big roll of something in my back pocket. Oh.
I'll have to be careful. It feels like paper. I
don't want to tear it. There we are. Oh, a
nice picture on the front. and 12 pages inside.
S3 (05:13):
Oh, open it up, open it up. Looks like a calendar.
S2 (05:16):
Oh. You're right. Time to think, Rebecca. We had a big,
thick candle with rings marked on it. And that glass
thing with sand in the bottom.
S3 (05:28):
Geraldine, turn it upside down so the sand is on
the top. The sand is running down a few grains
at a time, from the top bubble to the bottom one.
Through that thin glass tube that joins the pieces. It's
like a giant egg timer. And I bet it takes
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an hour for the sand to go from the top
container to the bottom one. Then you turn it up
the other way to measure the next hour. It's an
old fashioned hourglass.
S2 (06:00):
Well, in olden times, before clocks were invented, people used
all sorts of ways to measure time. And an hourglass
was one way.
S3 (06:10):
The candle. I counted the rings. There's 12 rings. Candle
clocks measure time by the number of rings left as
one of these big candles burned down. They were made
to last for four hours, so each ring marked 20 minutes.
Of course, that meant someone had to change the candle
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every four hours. Or turn the glass every hour.
S2 (06:37):
Well, that worked for shorter lengths of time. But what
about days and weeks? The things that diary and the
calendar are for. They measured days, weeks and months for
a whole year.
S3 (06:51):
Days were easy to measure. The sun was up. It
was day when the sun was down and the moon
was up. It had to be night. In olden times,
people believed that the earth was the center of everything.
And the sun and the moon and all the stars
Circled around the earth. They could see the sun and
the moon travel across the sky. So it had to
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be the sun and the moon that were moving and
the earth standing still. They would never have dreamt it
was possible to go to the moon and walk on
its surface.
S2 (10:14):
Those ancient people worked out that the moon took 28
days to grow from a tiny sliver of light to
a full round moon, shrink back night by night to nothing,
and then start all over again. They called this 28
day period a month, which was shortened to month 28,
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divides evenly by seven, which was handy because there were
seven bright bodies in the heavens, the sun, the moon,
and the first five planets. The planets were named after
important gods. There were no telescopes back then, so those
ancient stargazers didn't know about Uranus and Neptune. The original
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months were 28 days long, divided into four. Lots of seven,
and the days were named after the bright bodies.
S3 (11:08):
I'm pretty sure the first two days were sun's day
and Moon's day, and the rest were named after important
gods Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
S2 (11:21):
Different countries use different names for the days, but they
kept the seven day idea. The names we use come
from the Old Norse, which was brought to England more
than a thousand years ago. The word week was from
the Old English word week, meaning change over, because after
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seven days you changed over and started over again.
S3 (11:48):
Sunday and Monday are the same, but Tuesday is named
after the Norse god Tyrus, the god of war. Wednesday
used to be Wodan's day. He was the God of
wisdom and the king of the Norse gods.
S2 (12:05):
Thor, the god of thunder, had Thor's day now called
Thursday for his day, and Friday was named for Frigg.
She was Wodan's wife who looked after home and family.
S3 (12:18):
Are. Saturday started off as the day named for washing
or cleaning, so it was probably the day when everyone
had a bath, but was later renamed for Saturn, the planet.
I suppose it made sense to those long ago people
to name days after gods we know aren't real, but
to those people they were very real and important. I
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think I'd rather have something that really exists.
S2 (12:46):
Like what? Rebecca.
S3 (12:48):
How about dinners of the week? That's real enough.
S1 (14:10):
It's happy pants on Vision Australia radio.
S2 (14:15):
Hey, Rebecca, when does Monday come? Before Sunday?
S3 (14:20):
Oh, no, not one of those jokes. Okay, when does
Monday come before Sunday?
S2 (14:28):
In the dictionary? Of course.
S3 (14:32):
Okay, I've got one. Geraldine. How do hens feel on Mondays?
S2 (14:39):
You tell me.
S3 (14:40):
Exhausted. Oh, did you know that the first moon landing
happened on a Monday? It was a Monday when Doctor
Christiaan Barnard performed. The first human heart transplant. To Monday
is obviously a happening day.
S2 (14:57):
How about Tuesday? Way back in 1781. That's nearly 250
years ago. An astronomer called William Herschel used his brand
new telescope and discovered Uranus. Did you know that at
last count, Uranus has 28 moons? Earth has to make
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do with one.
S3 (15:21):
Wow. And Wednesday. Hmm. Why is Sunday stronger than Wednesday?
S2 (15:29):
Couldn't possibly guess.
S3 (15:32):
Huh? Because Wednesday is a weekday. Oh.
S2 (15:35):
Oh! Enough, enough, enough. Rebecca.
S3 (15:38):
Oh, there's Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to go. There's
lots more awful jokes.
S2 (15:45):
Talking of awful jokes. Do you know the Solomon Grundy verse?
S3 (15:51):
The one that's supposed to teach kids the days of
the week?
S2 (15:54):
That one. Solomon Grundy, born on Monday.
S3 (15:58):
Christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday.
S2 (16:02):
Took ill on Thursday, worse on Friday.
S3 (16:05):
Died on Saturday, buried on Sunday. And that.
S2 (16:09):
Was the.
S3 (16:09):
End.
S2 (16:10):
Of Solomon Grundy. Not the most cheerful bit of verse,
is it?
S3 (16:15):
No, the verse I remember best is the one about birthdays.
I was born on a Tuesday, so I was okay,
but my sister was born on a Thursday, so I
used to tease her about how she was going to
get lost and would have so far to go to
get home that it would take all night in the dark.
S2 (16:38):
I used to wish I'd been born on a Monday
or Sunday so I would be fairer face or Bonny
and gay. But I was born on a Wednesday, so
I was doomed to be a winger if one believed
the rhyme.
S3 (16:54):
Huh? Big word alert. A winger is someone who is
never happy and complains all the time. Someone full of woe.
Miserable all the time.
S2 (17:05):
I'd like to rewrite that verse.
S3 (17:07):
Let's do it. Starting with Monday. Monday's child is fair
of face. Everyone likes to be good looking, so that
one's okay.
S2 (17:16):
Hmm. Tuesday. Tuesday's child is full of grace. Oh, can't
complain about that one either.
S3 (17:23):
Wednesday's child is full of woe. Oh, dear. I see
what you mean. Why would anyone wish a child to
be sorrowful all the time? Can we change it?
S2 (17:34):
Oh, let's do it. It has to rhyme with the
next line, though. So what's a word that rhymes with
go crow? Grow? No lo mo ro.
S3 (17:48):
So I've got it, I've got it. Let's go with no.
Wednesday's child is nice to know. How's that?
S2 (17:57):
Oh. Much nicer. I'm happy with that. Now, how about
Thursday's child has far to go. Oh, that sounds like
someone who would never be able to catch up. Let's
change that.
S3 (18:09):
How about Thursday's child has places to go. That might
mean visiting lots of interesting places all over the world.
I'd like that.
S2 (18:20):
Friday's child sounds like a very nice person, so we
could leave that one alone. Saturday's child works hard for
a living. Um. Oh. Working hard is a good thing,
but it would be better if Saturday's child earned a
good living. They'd still have to work hard, but it
would be well paid.
S3 (18:41):
That sounds fair. And Sunday's child gets all the good
things anyway, so we don't need to change that.
S2 (18:48):
So our new version of the verse would go Monday's
child is fair of face.
S3 (18:56):
Tuesday's child is full of grace.
S2 (18:59):
Wednesday's child has a bright tomorrow.
S3 (19:02):
Thursday's child has places to go.
S2 (19:05):
Friday's child is loving and giving.
S3 (19:08):
Saturday's child makes a good living.
S2 (19:12):
And the child that is.
S3 (19:14):
Born.
S2 (19:14):
On the Sabbath day will be bonny and blithe, good
and gay. Oh, that's nice of her. All kids. Every
child has a good wish for his or her birthday.
It's not the real verse, but I like it better.
S3 (19:31):
Do you have a favorite day of the week?
S2 (19:34):
Not really. There are best days sometimes, but I don't
know that their best days until all the others have passed.
S3 (19:42):
I like days when I can look forward to something.
It's the anticipation that makes a good day.
S2 (19:49):
Big word alert. Anticipation means to expect something to happen.
Our story today is about the days of the week
and poor Monday, the day that nobody seemed to like
nobody likes.
S4 (20:07):
Monday by Kelly Lee and Amy Colotti. Nobody likes me.
I should just stay in bed. But Monday had a
job to do, so she dragged herself out of bed
to start the week. In the morning there was a
huge pile of letters waiting for her. Oh, more miserable
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mail Monday didn't bother opening the letters. She was sick
of everyone's complaining. Monday had an idea. Tuesday. Want to
swap days with me? She asked. No. Never cried Tuesday.
Think about it. Taco Tuesday, pancake Tuesday. Everybody loves Tuesday.
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You can eat yummy food on Monday too. You know,
Monday grumbled. Next she tried Wednesday. No way man. Wednesdays
are for daydreaming. I don't want the pressure of starting
the week. Want to swap days with me? Monday. Asked Thursday.
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He was named after Thor, the god of thunder, and
thought he was a superhero, but Thursday was too busy
posing to notice her last chance was Friday. Everybody's favorite
weekday with a dash of weekend thrown in. Not a chance,
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laughed Friday. I'm part of the weekdays and the weekend.
I'm not giving that up. Monday. Didn't bother asking Saturday
and Sunday. They were best friends the weekend. People wished
it was the weekend. Every day she would have to
come up with something else. Monday, put on a disguise
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and changed her name to Funday. But that didn't work.
Everybody still said hi Monday. She decided to take a vacation.
But apparently every week needs a Monday, so her travel
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papers were denied. Monday was out of ideas. She was
stuck being Monday forever. As she wiped away tears, something
caught her eye. There was a pretty envelope waiting for her.
Surely no one would put a complaint in such a
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colourful envelope. Thought Monday. She opened the letter. Monday. Thanks
for being the best day of the week. I went
to school and made new friends. Love, Zoe. Monday. Couldn't
believe her eyes. Someone did like Mondays. Dear. Monday. You're
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my favorite day of the week because I have basketball practice. Love, Ezra.
Stay awesome and dear Monday. It's my birthday today. Best
Monday ever. Love, Zara and dear Monday. We picked up
a new puppy today. She is the cutest puppy ever.
Maybe we should call her Monday. Love, Oliver. Ah, she
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opened more letters Monday, tossed aside any complaints, and decided
to only focus on the positive letters from now on.
A warm tingle spread from the top of Monday's head
to the tip of her toes. She thought about all
the good things that had happened on Mondays. She was
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just as important as the other days. Monday was full
of possibilities.
S2 (24:03):
That was a reading of Nobody Likes Monday, written by
Kelly Lee and Amy Culloty. The reader was Kate. So
what have we done today?
S3 (24:17):
We found out about how the days of the week
got their names. We also found out that today wasn't yesterday,
which was a good thing for Geraldine. Or she would
have missed Happy Pants.
S2 (24:29):
We had three big words strenuous, which means requiring great effort. Winger.
Someone who complains all the time and anticipation. That's when
you're expecting something to happen.
S3 (24:44):
We had a story about Monday who thought nobody liked
her until she read all the nice letters people sent her. To.
S2 (24:52):
If there was anything in today's program about which you
would like to know more, you can find us on
radio at Vision Australia. Keep wearing those happy.
S3 (25:04):
Pants.
S2 (25:05):
And we'll.
S3 (25:06):
Catch you.
S2 (25:07):
Next.
S3 (25:07):
Time.
S5 (25:20):
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One, two, three. It's happy pants.
S2 (00:30):
Good day, and welcome to Happy Pants, a show especially
for kids and especially for you. My name is Geraldine
and my name is Rebecca. And together, we're your happy
pants team for today. Are you wearing your happy pants today?
We are today. Mine are a dark, warm red. This
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color red reminds me of the taste of tomato sauce
on hot chips. Oh, I.
S3 (00:58):
Know that taste. My happy pants are red too. And
this kind of red makes me think of the feel
of warm, snuggly pajamas after a nice hot shower. Actually, Geraldine,
you look all red, as if you've been rushing around
or doing some strenuous exercise.
S2 (01:21):
Big word alert. Strenuous means requiring great effort. Actually, Rebecca,
I was a bit flustered because when I woke up
this morning, I thought it was yesterday and that today
was tomorrow. Yesterday is the day before today, so that
would mean Happy Pants wasn't due till tomorrow.
S3 (01:41):
But there will be a Happy pants tomorrow, the same
as today. So today will be yesterday. Tomorrow?
S2 (01:49):
Yes. But I thought that today was the day before.
The day before tomorrow. So it was yesterday. Today.
S3 (01:55):
Oh, whatever day it is, it doesn't explain why you're
all red and flustered.
S2 (02:02):
Well, when I found my red happy pants waiting for me,
I realised that today wasn't yesterday. And if today was
really today, Then I was running late and I'd better
rush to get ready quick. Smart.
S3 (02:17):
All. Okay, so you can stop Flustering. Because today is
really today. And today will be yesterday. Tomorrow.
S2 (03:35):
Well, now we've sorted that. We should check our pockets.
You go first, Rebecca.
S3 (03:40):
Happy pants have very unusual pockets. Things just appear, and
we certainly didn't put them there.
S2 (03:49):
Well, sometimes they're huge. At least they're huge when we
get them out. But they were small enough to fit
when they were in the pocket.
S3 (03:58):
I love the way they are tiny when I feel
them in my pocket, but they grow to proper size
when we find them. Let's see what's in this pocket
this morning. Oh, good heavens, it's a candle. A big,
thick candle thicker than my arm. Oh.
S2 (04:18):
It has rings marked round it. There must be a
reason for that.
S3 (04:22):
Hmm.
S2 (04:23):
Hmm. Oh, Rebecca, you do the thinking while I get
this big lump out of my pocket. Oh, it's a
wooden frame. And there's a glass thing inside. No, no.
Two big glass bubbles joined together by a thin tube.
And one of the bubbles has dry sand in it.
S3 (04:43):
Hmm. Mysterious and mysterious. There's something else in this pocket.
A little book. Oh. The cover says Daily Diary.
S2 (04:56):
And there's a big roll of something in my back pocket. Oh.
I'll have to be careful. It feels like paper. I
don't want to tear it. There we are. Oh, a
nice picture on the front. and 12 pages inside.
S3 (05:13):
Oh, open it up, open it up. Looks like a calendar.
S2 (05:16):
Oh. You're right. Time to think, Rebecca. We had a big,
thick candle with rings marked on it. And that glass
thing with sand in the bottom.
S3 (05:28):
Geraldine, turn it upside down so the sand is on
the top. The sand is running down a few grains
at a time, from the top bubble to the bottom one.
Through that thin glass tube that joins the pieces. It's
like a giant egg timer. And I bet it takes
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an hour for the sand to go from the top
container to the bottom one. Then you turn it up
the other way to measure the next hour. It's an
old fashioned hourglass.
S2 (06:00):
Well, in olden times, before clocks were invented, people used
all sorts of ways to measure time. And an hourglass
was one way.
S3 (06:10):
The candle. I counted the rings. There's 12 rings. Candle
clocks measure time by the number of rings left as
one of these big candles burned down. They were made
to last for four hours, so each ring marked 20 minutes.
Of course, that meant someone had to change the candle
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every four hours. Or turn the glass every hour.
S2 (06:37):
Well, that worked for shorter lengths of time. But what
about days and weeks? The things that diary and the
calendar are for. They measured days, weeks and months for
a whole year.
S3 (06:51):
Days were easy to measure. The sun was up. It
was day when the sun was down and the moon
was up. It had to be night. In olden times,
people believed that the earth was the center of everything.
And the sun and the moon and all the stars
Circled around the earth. They could see the sun and
the moon travel across the sky. So it had to
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be the sun and the moon that were moving and
the earth standing still. They would never have dreamt it
was possible to go to the moon and walk on
its surface.
S2 (10:14):
Those ancient people worked out that the moon took 28
days to grow from a tiny sliver of light to
a full round moon, shrink back night by night to nothing,
and then start all over again. They called this 28
day period a month, which was shortened to month 28,
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divides evenly by seven, which was handy because there were
seven bright bodies in the heavens, the sun, the moon,
and the first five planets. The planets were named after
important gods. There were no telescopes back then, so those
ancient stargazers didn't know about Uranus and Neptune. The original
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months were 28 days long, divided into four. Lots of seven,
and the days were named after the bright bodies.
S3 (11:08):
I'm pretty sure the first two days were sun's day
and Moon's day, and the rest were named after important
gods Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
S2 (11:21):
Different countries use different names for the days, but they
kept the seven day idea. The names we use come
from the Old Norse, which was brought to England more
than a thousand years ago. The word week was from
the Old English word week, meaning change over, because after
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seven days you changed over and started over again.
S3 (11:48):
Sunday and Monday are the same, but Tuesday is named
after the Norse god Tyrus, the god of war. Wednesday
used to be Wodan's day. He was the God of
wisdom and the king of the Norse gods.
S2 (12:05):
Thor, the god of thunder, had Thor's day now called
Thursday for his day, and Friday was named for Frigg.
She was Wodan's wife who looked after home and family.
S3 (12:18):
Are. Saturday started off as the day named for washing
or cleaning, so it was probably the day when everyone
had a bath, but was later renamed for Saturn, the planet.
I suppose it made sense to those long ago people
to name days after gods we know aren't real, but
to those people they were very real and important. I
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think I'd rather have something that really exists.
S2 (12:46):
Like what? Rebecca.
S3 (12:48):
How about dinners of the week? That's real enough.
S1 (14:10):
It's happy pants on Vision Australia radio.
S2 (14:15):
Hey, Rebecca, when does Monday come? Before Sunday?
S3 (14:20):
Oh, no, not one of those jokes. Okay, when does
Monday come before Sunday?
S2 (14:28):
In the dictionary? Of course.
S3 (14:32):
Okay, I've got one. Geraldine. How do hens feel on Mondays?
S2 (14:39):
You tell me.
S3 (14:40):
Exhausted. Oh, did you know that the first moon landing
happened on a Monday? It was a Monday when Doctor
Christiaan Barnard performed. The first human heart transplant. To Monday
is obviously a happening day.
S2 (14:57):
How about Tuesday? Way back in 1781. That's nearly 250
years ago. An astronomer called William Herschel used his brand
new telescope and discovered Uranus. Did you know that at
last count, Uranus has 28 moons? Earth has to make
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do with one.
S3 (15:21):
Wow. And Wednesday. Hmm. Why is Sunday stronger than Wednesday?
S2 (15:29):
Couldn't possibly guess.
S3 (15:32):
Huh? Because Wednesday is a weekday. Oh.
S2 (15:35):
Oh! Enough, enough, enough. Rebecca.
S3 (15:38):
Oh, there's Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to go. There's
lots more awful jokes.
S2 (15:45):
Talking of awful jokes. Do you know the Solomon Grundy verse?
S3 (15:51):
The one that's supposed to teach kids the days of
the week?
S2 (15:54):
That one. Solomon Grundy, born on Monday.
S3 (15:58):
Christened on Tuesday, married on Wednesday.
S2 (16:02):
Took ill on Thursday, worse on Friday.
S3 (16:05):
Died on Saturday, buried on Sunday. And that.
S2 (16:09):
Was the.
S3 (16:09):
End.
S2 (16:10):
Of Solomon Grundy. Not the most cheerful bit of verse,
is it?
S3 (16:15):
No, the verse I remember best is the one about birthdays.
I was born on a Tuesday, so I was okay,
but my sister was born on a Thursday, so I
used to tease her about how she was going to
get lost and would have so far to go to
get home that it would take all night in the dark.
S2 (16:38):
I used to wish I'd been born on a Monday
or Sunday so I would be fairer face or Bonny
and gay. But I was born on a Wednesday, so
I was doomed to be a winger if one believed
the rhyme.
S3 (16:54):
Huh? Big word alert. A winger is someone who is
never happy and complains all the time. Someone full of woe.
Miserable all the time.
S2 (17:05):
I'd like to rewrite that verse.
S3 (17:07):
Let's do it. Starting with Monday. Monday's child is fair
of face. Everyone likes to be good looking, so that
one's okay.
S2 (17:16):
Hmm. Tuesday. Tuesday's child is full of grace. Oh, can't
complain about that one either.
S3 (17:23):
Wednesday's child is full of woe. Oh, dear. I see
what you mean. Why would anyone wish a child to
be sorrowful all the time? Can we change it?
S2 (17:34):
Oh, let's do it. It has to rhyme with the
next line, though. So what's a word that rhymes with
go crow? Grow? No lo mo ro.
S3 (17:48):
So I've got it, I've got it. Let's go with no.
Wednesday's child is nice to know. How's that?
S2 (17:57):
Oh. Much nicer. I'm happy with that. Now, how about
Thursday's child has far to go. Oh, that sounds like
someone who would never be able to catch up. Let's
change that.
S3 (18:09):
How about Thursday's child has places to go. That might
mean visiting lots of interesting places all over the world.
I'd like that.
S2 (18:20):
Friday's child sounds like a very nice person, so we
could leave that one alone. Saturday's child works hard for
a living. Um. Oh. Working hard is a good thing,
but it would be better if Saturday's child earned a
good living. They'd still have to work hard, but it
would be well paid.
S3 (18:41):
That sounds fair. And Sunday's child gets all the good
things anyway, so we don't need to change that.
S2 (18:48):
So our new version of the verse would go Monday's
child is fair of face.
S3 (18:56):
Tuesday's child is full of grace.
S2 (18:59):
Wednesday's child has a bright tomorrow.
S3 (19:02):
Thursday's child has places to go.
S2 (19:05):
Friday's child is loving and giving.
S3 (19:08):
Saturday's child makes a good living.
S2 (19:12):
And the child that is.
S3 (19:14):
Born.
S2 (19:14):
On the Sabbath day will be bonny and blithe, good
and gay. Oh, that's nice of her. All kids. Every
child has a good wish for his or her birthday.
It's not the real verse, but I like it better.
S3 (19:31):
Do you have a favorite day of the week?
S2 (19:34):
Not really. There are best days sometimes, but I don't
know that their best days until all the others have passed.
S3 (19:42):
I like days when I can look forward to something.
It's the anticipation that makes a good day.
S2 (19:49):
Big word alert. Anticipation means to expect something to happen.
Our story today is about the days of the week
and poor Monday, the day that nobody seemed to like
nobody likes.
S4 (20:07):
Monday by Kelly Lee and Amy Colotti. Nobody likes me.
I should just stay in bed. But Monday had a
job to do, so she dragged herself out of bed
to start the week. In the morning there was a
huge pile of letters waiting for her. Oh, more miserable
(20:30):
mail Monday didn't bother opening the letters. She was sick
of everyone's complaining. Monday had an idea. Tuesday. Want to
swap days with me? She asked. No. Never cried Tuesday.
Think about it. Taco Tuesday, pancake Tuesday. Everybody loves Tuesday.
(20:55):
You can eat yummy food on Monday too. You know,
Monday grumbled. Next she tried Wednesday. No way man. Wednesdays
are for daydreaming. I don't want the pressure of starting
the week. Want to swap days with me? Monday. Asked Thursday.
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He was named after Thor, the god of thunder, and
thought he was a superhero, but Thursday was too busy
posing to notice her last chance was Friday. Everybody's favorite
weekday with a dash of weekend thrown in. Not a chance,
(21:36):
laughed Friday. I'm part of the weekdays and the weekend.
I'm not giving that up. Monday. Didn't bother asking Saturday
and Sunday. They were best friends the weekend. People wished
it was the weekend. Every day she would have to
come up with something else. Monday, put on a disguise
(22:02):
and changed her name to Funday. But that didn't work.
Everybody still said hi Monday. She decided to take a vacation.
But apparently every week needs a Monday, so her travel
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papers were denied. Monday was out of ideas. She was
stuck being Monday forever. As she wiped away tears, something
caught her eye. There was a pretty envelope waiting for her.
Surely no one would put a complaint in such a
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colourful envelope. Thought Monday. She opened the letter. Monday. Thanks
for being the best day of the week. I went
to school and made new friends. Love, Zoe. Monday. Couldn't
believe her eyes. Someone did like Mondays. Dear. Monday. You're
(23:10):
my favorite day of the week because I have basketball practice. Love, Ezra.
Stay awesome and dear Monday. It's my birthday today. Best
Monday ever. Love, Zara and dear Monday. We picked up
a new puppy today. She is the cutest puppy ever.
Maybe we should call her Monday. Love, Oliver. Ah, she
(23:34):
opened more letters Monday, tossed aside any complaints, and decided
to only focus on the positive letters from now on.
A warm tingle spread from the top of Monday's head
to the tip of her toes. She thought about all
the good things that had happened on Mondays. She was
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just as important as the other days. Monday was full
of possibilities.
S2 (24:03):
That was a reading of Nobody Likes Monday, written by
Kelly Lee and Amy Culloty. The reader was Kate. So
what have we done today?
S3 (24:17):
We found out about how the days of the week
got their names. We also found out that today wasn't yesterday,
which was a good thing for Geraldine. Or she would
have missed Happy Pants.
S2 (24:29):
We had three big words strenuous, which means requiring great effort. Winger.
Someone who complains all the time and anticipation. That's when
you're expecting something to happen.
S3 (24:44):
We had a story about Monday who thought nobody liked
her until she read all the nice letters people sent her. To.
S2 (24:52):
If there was anything in today's program about which you
would like to know more, you can find us on
radio at Vision Australia. Keep wearing those happy.
S3 (25:04):
Pants.
S2 (25:05):
And we'll.
S3 (25:06):
Catch you.
S2 (25:07):
Next.
S3 (25:07):
Time.
S5 (25:20):
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Noongar people. Vision Australia Radio acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples as the first Australians, and the traditional owners
of the land across our working area. We pay our
respects to elders past, present and future in maintaining their cultures,
countries and their spiritual connection to the lands and waters.
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(25:44):
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