Puzzle Description:

This rebus has been done before in different forms. See puzzles #1377 (by Gypso)and #9448 (by Heather). Because of a little wordplay here, this probably won't make much sense except in English - sorry.

#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Aug 29, 2013 [SPOILER]

Once in a blue moon?

makes sense to me Norma

Yours is the best, Dave. :)

I think I'm in the twilight zone. This morning, I solved Sylvain's #878. Not exactly the same, but close enough to be freaky.

You are incredibly correct Norma! (about comment #1 - Thank you for comment #3) and Tom, you're obviously a sensible guy.

Kristen - Sorry for the freak out (ok, I'm not sorry. I think we kinda enjoy freaking each other out)

We just had a Blue Moon the night of Aug. 20-21 so I thought I'd honor it a bit. One fairly unheralded benefit of WebPBN is how educational it is. Many puzzles provide links, or at least incentives, to learn more about the subject matter. Here's my contribution for this one:

http://earthsky.org/space/when-is-the-next-blue-moon

Are you standing alone?

Isn't it the Cheese that stands alone? Or was that the joke? :)

From the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vr0amOKCHo

Oh yeah. *sheepish grin*

I thought it was a moon-is-made-of-green-cheese reference. :)

:) Kristen.

I hate rebus puzzles. but i liked this one.

Nice! Thanks!

Nice puzzle. I especially like the curvature of the moon. I think this puzzle would make sense in any language where the numeral one is "1". It is different in Chinese, for example. But, if they know about "blue moons", they might be able to "puzzle" it out!

Thanks Susan. I imagine you're right - there are a lot of very clever folks all over the globe.

Welcome back, Dave!

Hi Norma. I'm kind of in and out for awhile. Thanks!

Ones in a blue moon. Fun puzzle, Dave!

A clever pun for a creative rebus.

For those who are now interested in when the next Blue Moon will appear: https://www.almanac.com/what-blue-moon#:~:text=The%20next%20Blue%20Moon%20according,Moon%20in%20a%20calendar%20month).

Susan, it only works because "once" sounds very much like ones. In other languages, the plural of "one" won't sound like the word for "one time".

In other languages we don't have that saying...
for instance in Spanish we say "cada muerte de obispo"

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