Re: Happy Rossini's birthday!

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:04:12 -0500, Maria C. posted:

R H Draney wrote:
Article in the Arizona Republic today about people born on
February
29th profiles a teenager named Lauren Trim...this
paragraph caught my
eye:

"Lauren could go get her driver's license, now that she's
16, on her
actual birth date. But had this not been a leap year, she
would have
had to wait until March 1."

That's fine, except that if this had not been a leap year,
sixteen
years ago wouldn't have been a leap year either, so she
wouldn't have
been born on February 29th anyway....

Do these newspaper people *ever* think about what they're
saying?...r

My uncle-by-marriage, born in 1916, would have been
celebrating his 23rd birthday today (were he still living,
of course).

My birthday was on the 28th. I was born during a leap year (1944), and
according to my mother, I missed the 29th by about an hour and a half.

--
WCdnE
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