tag:dreamwidth.org,2022-02-22:3886013OrnothOrnothOrnoth2025-02-16T00:08:30Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2022-02-22:3886013:23424424 Years of HUI-VUI!2025-02-16T00:08:30Z2025-02-16T00:08:30Zpublic0<p>The time has come – the Walrus said – to talk of many things… Specifically, <strong>my underwear</strong>. </p>
<p>I am, of course, referring to Ornoth’s well-documented Hexannual Universal Internal Vernal Underwear Interval (abbr. <strong>HUI-VUI</strong>, <em>not</em> <a href="https://vui-hui.de/">VUI-HUI</a>), wherein our protagonist spontaneously does an <em>in toto</em> purge of his undergarment inventory every six years, around the end of February. </p>
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<p>Although <strong>this cyclical behavior is known to go back at least as far as 2001</strong>, it wasn’t <a href="https://ornoth.dreamwidth.org/187859.html">discovered and documented until 2013</a>, when it received its official nomenclature. Six years hence, science confirmed this theory when <a href="https://ornoth.dreamwidth.org/220066.html">the subsequent purge took place in March 2019</a>. </p>
<p>In that illuminating initial 2013 research paper, <strong>a prediction was made</strong> that reprises of the HUI-VUI phenomenon would transpire again in early 2019, 2025, and beyond. With the 24th anniversary of its first documented observation fast approaching, this had obvious implications for expectant pantspotters everywhere. </p>
<p>Happily, our on-location Brief Patrol has <strong>verified today’s arrival</strong> of our long-expected bundle of joy. And there was – as they say – much rejoicing.</p>
<p>The <strong>HUI-VUI’s next predicted episode</strong> will occur at the end of February, 2031. Be there, or be squarepants! 🙋♂️</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ornoth&ditemid=234244" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments