Re: Leap Year Day

On Feb 29, 12:33 pm, Josiah Jenkins <josiah-jenk...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:14:29 -0800 (PST), Jane Margaret Laight

<jml27...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just a note for us trivia fans (you know who you are)
about 29 February:

Blinking leap year !

We've had pissing rain and howling winds all day.

If there hadn't been an extra day in February we'd
have missed it all . . .

LOL--

the weather actually is cooperating, but it is supposed to snow and
blow this evening--ah well.

Years back, this was considered "Sadie Hawkins Day" named after a
comic book character in the syndicated strip "Li'l Abner"--although
the cite says it was supposed to be celebrated in November, the girls
around Durham NC used to cewlebrate it on Leap Year Day:

http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html

At Filene's Department Store in Boston, Mass., USA, today is also "The
Running of the Brides"--not unlike the "Running of the Bulls" in
pamplona, although I have no doubt that Hemingway would not have been
too displeased at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_of_the_Brides

I was there once, years back, with a good friend who was getting
married and wanted to save money getting her trousseau together. I'm
standing there cheering them all on, and a reporter from one of the
local TV station asks me "well, why aren't you out there?"

"Well, obviously, I'm not getting married, " sez I.

Sez he, "Heck, if I propose to you, will you go out there and try for
a dress?"

And I have to admit that I gave it a minute or two of thought before I
said "Thanks, but no thanks!"

JML
Lady President, Chorus of Professional Bridesmaids
.