Leap Year.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:37 am

my grandma was born on feb 29th, happy 21st granny, now you are legal to drink.

so why is there leap year? could'nt they come up with something better, more precise?

i'm certain that even the mayan calender has a "correction" date as well.

WTF god? Where is the SCIENCE?

why cant TIME be orderly? what is this shit, a Re-do? a Mulligan?

and does this mean we get to burn the man Twice, twice?

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:04 am

Should be an extra day every four years when the gap between the cosmic and the illusory miasma of chaos.

It is an extra day without a month, without a name, which is celebrated free of all customs and rules. What happens on this day is universally forgiven and unpunished. Needless to say, the meek normally spend this holiday indoors.

Dork · Post by **Dork** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:15 am

Why does it have to be near the beginning of the year? Can't they just tack an extra day at the end? Is a 32 day month really that scary? Or permanently switching Feb to 29 or 30 and adjusting some of the 31 day months?

Why is February only 28 days in the first place? To keep Black History Month short?

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:23 am

A whole leap month?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_day

There is a tradition, said to go back to Saint Patrick and Brigid of Kildare in 5th century Ireland, but apparently not attested before the 19th century, whereby women may make marriage proposals only in leap years.

Supposedly (but disputed), in a 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland (then age five and living in Norway), fines were levied if the proposal was refused by the man; compensation ranged from a kiss to Â£1 to a silk gown, in order to soften the blow.[7] Because men felt that put them at too great a risk, the tradition was in some places tightened to restricting female proposals to the modern leap day, 29 February, or to the medieval leap day, 24 February.

Others regard these supposed folk traditions as unhistorical.[8]

In Greece, it is believed that getting married in a leap year is bad luck for the couple. Thus, mainly in the middle of the past century, couples avoided setting a marriage date in a leap year.

Any excuse for a party says me.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:26 pm

ok, so how about we all agree to forego the traditional leap year day, and simply transfer it to august, thereby extending the fun for a WHOLE DAY.

i kinda dig the sadie hawkins thing too...."LADIES CHOICE---ALL SKATE"

it would be nice to switch it up, and when the few Fratholes yell "show us yer tits" they'll be surrounded by a bunch of BurnerGrrls who will demand that they "show us your dicks"....

turnabout is fair game, and it'll be interesting to see how it feels to be objectified.

just dont make fun of my nipples, please.

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:42 pm

My child is due Feb 27- March 4th. I'm hoping it'll share your grandmothers birthday.

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:52 pm

MikeVDS wrote:My child is due Feb 27- March 4th. I'm hoping it'll share your grandmothers birthday.

You can do more than hope, you know....

name him Julius.