This would be a lot funnier if there were enough pixels to differentiate the colors in the legend…
Professor: And Josh what is your thesis about?
Josh: Urrmmmm ahh umm What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
Professor: Josh youre studying statistics.
Josh: Yeah, naw Im going to graph it.
I guess Hawaiian sunshine is just a thing my family uses…
The devil is married?
A few minutes before the services started, the townspeople were sitting in their pews and talking. Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from evil incarnate.
Soon everyone had exited the church except for one elderly gentleman who sat calmly in his pew without moving, seeming oblivious to the fact that God’s ultimate enemy was in his presence.
So Satan walked up to the old man and said, “Don’t you know who I am?” The man replied, “Yep, sure do.”
“Aren’t you afraid of me?” Satan asked.
“Nope, sure ain’t,” said the man.
“Don’t you realize I can kill you with a word?” asked Satan.
“Don’t doubt it for a minute,” returned the old man, in an even tone.
“Did you know that I could cause you profound, horrifying, physical AGONY… for all eternity?” persisted Satan.
“Yep,” was the calm reply.
“And you’re still not afraid?” asked Satan.
“Nope.”
More than a little perturbed, Satan asked, “Well, why aren’t you afraid of me?”
The man calmly replied, "Been married to your sister for the last 48 years!!..
“His wife” could be a…let’s say, “euphemism” for something else. In which case, that ain’t rainwater falling…
In the UK , well the part of the UK I live in we say “it’s a monkey’s birthday”
Well more actually most of the time we don’t say anything about it all
It’s always been, “The devil is getting married,” for me.
Wait, others don’t say the devil is beating his wife?
I’ve decided I hate the domestic violence one. One I heard a while back is “a monkey’s wedding” and that has a much better mental image.
Fox marries Wolf’s wife
I hadn’t heard the Wolf’s wife part, but I’d always heard said that it was a “Fox’s wedding”. Which is pretty similar. I’ve heard sunshower and that “The Devil’s beating his wife” but the fox one was more fun so it stuck with me.
I grew up in the CA bay area and always called them sunshowers. I didn’t make that up: I called them sunshowers when I was a kid because the people around me called them sunshowers.
As an aside, I also taught linguistics at the university level for about 10 years. I do question the accuracy of many of Katz’s charts because they very often do not match people’s expectations, and beyond the level of “you expected this because you didn’t know any better”. I would take them with a grain of salt. That’s not really a dig on Katz, either: difficult to study anything at this scale.
This map is inaccurate. I’m from Arizona and “sunshower” is commonly used here.
Yup. SE Texas and it’s “Devil is beating his wife” here.
I’ve mostly heard some variation on sunshower in Texas because while they’re not common, they’re not super rare either. We also rarely get “sun-derstorms” (dunno what else to call it) in Texas.
I’m Florida we call it 4pm.
I believe it’s a Golden Shower
In russian we have a phrase “грибной дождь” (mushroom rain) for light warm rain in the sunshine.
It’s the best weather for mushroom growth and is therefore a sign to go harvest them in the woods soon.
I like this a lot. It’s cute-sounding and has a history.
