From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Cc: coff@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [COFF] What does your "cal" show?
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 11:10:07 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210903011007.GE60245@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aec858c6-ed3c-a1dd-e254-51a0e613e6ec@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
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On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 18:54:50 -0600, COFF wrote:
> On 9/2/21 6:03 PM, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
>> Well, we have the question every leap year on February 29.
>
> A friend was born on February 29th. She's both X and X ÷ 4 years old.
> It's usually worth a chuckle. I make a point to wish her a happy
> birthday on February 28th three out of four years. The forth year, I'm
> lazy and delay by a day. }:-)
I have been married twice. First wife was born on 28 February on a
leap year, second wife on 1 March 3 years earlier. We can't agree on
the age difference.
The other reference, of course, is Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates
of Penzance", where Frederic, the hero, was born on 29 February 1860
and apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday (a
paradox: 29 February 1940).
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-03 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-02 22:10 Dave Horsfall
2021-09-02 23:40 ` Tom Manos
2021-09-02 23:40 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-09-03 0:03 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-09-03 0:54 ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-09-03 1:10 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2021-09-03 4:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-09-03 0:58 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-09-03 4:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-09-03 9:28 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF
2021-09-08 10:24 ` Tony Finch
2021-09-08 13:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-09-08 20:36 ` Warner Losh
2021-09-08 22:52 ` Adam Thornton
2021-09-04 14:03 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-09-03 13:06 Noel Chiappa
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