What is "blue moon"

Moon \Moon\ (m[=oo]n), n. [OE. mone, AS. m[=o]na; akin to D. maan, OS. & OHG. m[=a]no, G. mond, Icel. m[=a]ni, Dan. maane, Sw. m[*a]ne, Goth. m[=e]na, Lith. men[*u], L. mensis month, Gr. mh`nh moon, mh`n month, Skr. m[=a]s moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure), from its serving to measure the time. [root]27

1. Cf. Mete to measure, Menses, Monday, Month.] 1. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.

   The crescent moon, the diadem of night.
   --Cowper.

2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
   --Shak.

4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

5. The deliberately exposed naked buttocks. [slang] Moon blindness.

   1. (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks.

   2. (Med.) Hemeralopia.

      Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.

      Moon face, a round face like a full moon.

      Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic]

      Moon month, a lunar month.

      Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic ( Medicago arborea). See Medic.

      Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.

      blue moon, see blue moon in the vocabulary.

blue moon \blue moon"\ The second full moon occurring in the same month; -- derived from the expression once in a blue moon; as, we had a blue moon on January 31, 1999, and another in March.

once in a blue moon very rarely; -- from the observation that the moon rarely has a bluish tint.

Note: In 1980, the phrase blue moon was applied to the second full moon of any month, because this phenomenon is unusual. This new meaning for the old phrase blue moon has become widely accepted.

1821 as a specific term in the sense "very rarely," perhaps suggesting something that, in fact, never happens (compare at the Greek calends, and the native in the reign of Queen Dick and Saint Geoffrey's Day "Never, there being no saint of that name," reported in Grose (1788)); suggested earliest in this couplet from 1528:Yf they say the mone is blewe,
We must beleve that it is true.\nThough this might refer to calendrical calculations by the Church. Thus the general "rareness" sense of the term is difficult to disentangle from the specific calendrical one (commonly misinterpreted as "second full moon in a calendar month," but actually a quarterly calculation). In either case, the sense of blue here is obscure. Literal blue moons do sometimes occur under extreme atmospheric conditions.

n. 1 (context rare English) The moon tinted towards blue as it appears in the sky, caused by dust or smoke in the atmosphere. 2 An extra full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year, namely: 3 # The third full moon in a quarter that contains four rather than the usual three full moons. 4 # The second of two full moons that occur in the same calendar month. 5 (context idiomatic by extension English) A long time. 6 A flavor of sweet ice cream that is popular in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern%20United%20States and is a component of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman%20ice%20cream.

n. a long time; "something that happens once in blue moon almost never happens"

A blue moon is an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year: either the third of four full moons in a season, or a second full moon in a month of the common calendar.

The phrase has nothing to do with the actual color of the moon, although a literal "blue moon" (the moon appearing with a tinge of blue) may occur in certain atmospheric conditions: e.g., if volcanic eruptions or fires leave particles in the atmosphere of just the right size to preferentially scatter red light.

A blue moon is an astronomical phenomenon.

Blue Moon may also refer to:

Blue Moon is an Austrian movie written and directed by Andrea Maria Dusl in 2002. The road movie romantic comedy is Dusl's first as a director.

Blue Moon is the eighth in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of horror/mystery/erotica novels by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Blue Moon is a now defunct fanzine dedicated to Peterborough United. It was originally called Blue Moon is a Man City song for F**k sake, but the name was changed in the 2005/06 season.

'Blue Moon ' is a 2006 Philippine romantic drama film baby released by Regal Films directed by Joel Lamangan.

The first title choice of this movie was Nasan ka Man (Wherever you are) and Nasaan ka Nang Kailangan Kita (Where Were You when I Needed You) was the second title choice of the movie.

Blue Moon is Sofia Talvik's debut album and was released in 2005, entirely produced by Talvik.

Blue Moon is the third studio album released in 1996 by American country music artist Toby Keith. The third album of his career and his only album for A&M Records (whose Nashville division was soon absorbed into Mercury Records Nashville), it was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of one million copies in the United States. Overall, it produced three singles for Keith on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: "Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine on You?" (#2), "A Woman's Touch" (#6), and "Me Too" (#1).

"Blue Moon" is a classic popular song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, and has become a standard ballad. It may be the first instance of the familiar " 50s progression" in a popular song. The song was a hit twice in 1949 with successful recordings in the US by Billy Eckstine and Mel Tormé. In 1961, "Blue Moon" became an international number one hit for the doo-wop group the Marcels, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and in the UK Singles chart. Over the years, "Blue Moon" has been covered by various artists including versions by Billie Holiday, Elvis Presley, the Mavericks and Rod Stewart.

Versions of this song are used liberally in the soundtrack of the 1981 horror-comedy film An American Werewolf in London.

Blue Moon Belgian White is a Belgian-style witbier brewed by Blue Moon Brewing Co. originally in Golden, Colorado, and launched in 1995.

Blue Moon Brewing Co. is an entity of Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the craft and import division of MillerCoors. Originally called Bellyslide Belgian White, it was created by Keith Villa, a brewer at Coors Field's Sandlot Brewery (the onsite brewery owned by the Molson Coors Brewing Company). Blue Moon from the Montreal site is also sold in the USA, as well as exported to Europe.

The grain bill for Blue Moon includes malted barley, white wheat, orange peel, coriander and oats—and is sometimes served with a slice of orange, which its brewmasters claim accentuates the flavor of the brew. Keith Villa admitted the orange slice garnish was mostly for attention-getting when Blue Moon is served in a bar.

Available in cans, bottles and kegs, Blue Moon has 5.4% alcohol by volume. In Oklahoma, Minnesota, Colorado and Utah, the alcohol content of all Blue Moon beers bought in grocery or convenience stores is 3.2% alcohol by weight (approximately 4.0% alcohol by volume). Blue Moon Brews and seasonal brews sold in liquor stores are 5.4% by volume.

thumb|250px|Blue moon ice cream Blue Moon is an ice cream flavor with bright blue coloring available in the Upper Midwest of the United States. The Chicago Tribune has described the ice cream as " Smurf-blue, marshmallow-sweet, and tasting remarkably like Froot Loops and Fruity Pebbles". Blue Moon ice cream is one of the flavors which make up Superman ice cream.

Blue Moon is found mainly in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio. It is found less frequently in Minnesota; North Dakota; Indiana; Iowa; Illinois; and Erie, Pennsylvania, and has reportedly been available (either in the past or currently) in California; Colorado; Utah; Missouri; Western Pennsylvania; upstate and central New York; Houston, Texas; Nebraska; Wyoming; Arizona; Seattle, Washington; Fayetteville, West Virginia, and as far south as Bradenton, Florida. A possibly similar, possibly identical flavor has also been sold in Italy as well as Malta under the name "Puffo", which is Italian for " Smurf", as well as in Germany under the name "Engelblau", which translates to "Angel Blue", in France as "Schtroumpf" ("Smurf") and Slovenia under the name "Modro nebo" which translates to "Blue Sky".

Blue Moon is the debut album of country music artist Steve Holy. Released in 2000 on Curb Records, the album produced four hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. The first one, "Don't Make Me Beg", peaked at No. 29 on the charts, and its follow-ups ( the title track and "The Hunger", respectively) both reached No. 24. Following "The Hunger," Holy charted with " Good Morning Beautiful," which he recorded for the soundtrack to the film Angel Eyes. After this song reached Number One, Curb re-issued the album with "Good Morning Beautiful" as a bonus track.

The album was produced by Wilbur C. Rimes, the father of female country music singer LeAnn Rimes.

On February 24, 2009 it was certified Gold by the RIAA.

Blue Moon is the second book in The Immortals series by author Alyson Noël released in July 2009. Blue Moon had spent 12 weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers list for children's books as of October 11, 2009.

Blue Moon is the debut studio album by the doo-wop group The Marcels. It was released in 1961 on Colpix Records and included 12 songs. The album was available in mono, catalogue number CP-416. Blue Moon was produced and arranged by Stu Phillips and was recorded in New York at RCA Studios. Blue Moon features a cover version of the Judy Garland hit "Over The Rainbow". Four decades after the group's debut album was released, The Marcels were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.

Blue Moon is an album by jazz singer Carmen McRae, released on Decca Records in 1956.

"Blue Moon" is a song written by Gary Leach and Mark Tinney, and recorded by American country music artist Steve Holy. It was released in April 2000 as the second single and title track from his debut album Blue Moon. The song peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and reached number 47 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.

Blue Moon, published by Kosmos/ Fantasy Flight Games from 2004, is Reiner Knizia's most successful take on the collectible card game (CCG) genre. It is a card game for two players that bears some resemblance to the well-known Magic: The Gathering (by Richard Garfield), although the game mechanics are quite different. However Blue Moon is not a CCG; although each player has to use his own deck, there are no booster packs and, apart from a few promotional cards, all cards are sold in decks of fixed composition, so that there are no rare cards. In total, there are 344 different cards.

Based in a unique fantasy setting, Blue Moon simulates the struggles of the various peoples who live in the Blue Moon world. Each people has its own unique traits and gameplay mechanics, and is represented by a 30 card deck (plus a "leader" card).

The base Blue Moon game box contains a small game board, three small plastic dragons (used as scoring counters in the game) and two complete decks for the Vulca and Hoax peoples. Blue Moon cards are oversized (120 mm × 70 mm) and resemble tarot cards: they need special-sized card sleeves to protect them.

Additional peoples (to be bought separately) are the following:

• Mimix
• Flit
• Khind
• Terrah
• Pillar
• Aqua
• Buka (Buka Invasion)

In addition, two more decks called Emissaries & Inquisitors: Allies and Emissaries & Inquisitors: Blessings contain additional cards which can be used in at least two ways. Advanced rules in the basic set allow players more freedom in constructing their own decks, each based on a single people with imported cards from other peoples (limited by the cards' deck construction costs measured in "moons"). The Emissaries & Inquisitors decks allow additional deck building possibilities.

Many Blue Moon cards carry text to specify the cards' influence on the game (sometimes overriding the game rules). The game is therefore very language-dependent. Known available editions exist in English (Fantasy Flight Games), German (Kosmos), Dutch ( 999 Games, excluding the Buka Invasion), and (very incomplete) French (Tilsit). Artwork for game boxes differs. Some promotional cards have been released and given as gifts at various gaming events.

In 2006 Fantasy Flight Games published a Blue Moon-related board game called Blue Moon City: this is not compatible with the Blue Moon card game and is a complete German-style board game for 2 to 4 players, set in the same Blue Moon world. It also shares artwork with the Blue Moon card games, but (apart from some fairly tenuous thematic links) this is where the links end.

During the 2007 edition of the Lucca Comics & Games Italian comics and games convention, Reiner Knizia himself confirmed that no new decks for Blue Moon are under development, as the publisher is no longer interested in publishing them. So, the game should be considered "complete" with its current set of decks.

"Blue Moon" is a song written, produced and performed by Beck, issued as the lead single from his twelfth studio album Morning Phase. The song is the musician's first release on Capitol Records (after leaving his previous label, Geffen Records). The song was nominated for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance at the 57th Grammy Awards. Beck has performed the song on Ellen and Saturday Night Live.