Happy Leap Year Day Everyone! |
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 Feb 29 2008, 06:15 PM
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 Cornflakes :D  Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,541 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 322,923  |
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Feb 29 2008, 06:42 PM
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 Resource Center Tyrant Group: Official Member Posts: 2,263 Joined: Nov 2007 Member No: 593,306 |
Not to rain on anyone's parade or something, but leap years suck.
Happy Leap Year Day! |
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Feb 29 2008, 06:45 PM
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 R U A Q T ? [; Group: Official Member Posts: 7,276 Joined: Jun 2006 Member No: 421,631 |
i kindof feel bad for all the babies born today...even though it's kind of cool. +free mcskillet @ mickeyd's if you buy a drink today
 happy leap year day. |
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Feb 29 2008, 06:55 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 6,349 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 455,274 |
I honestly don't know the significance of leap year... is there some sort of astrological change? Or is this some sort of American tradition of some sort? o.O;
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Feb 29 2008, 06:58 PM
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 Addict Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 3,918 Joined: Jun 2007 Member No: 538,522 |
There's a tradition where the woman in a relationship can propose to her man on Feb 29th.
A blessing for the bloke whom only has to remember anniversaries every seventh year. Oh - leap years keep the calendar in check. Wiki it. |
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Feb 29 2008, 06:58 PM
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 crushed. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,432 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 20,026 |
 i have a couple of friends who have their birthdays today..five years old! |
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Feb 29 2008, 07:03 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,095 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 171,080 |
QUOTE(Tamacracker @ Feb 29 2008, 05:55 PM)  I honestly don't know the significance of leap year... is there some sort of astrological change? Or is this some sort of American tradition of some sort? o.O; It takes the earth 365 1/4 days to revolve around the sun. After 4 years, it adds up to a whole day, thus, leap year. |
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Feb 29 2008, 07:04 PM
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 DDR \\ I'm Dee :) Group: Mentor Posts: 8,662 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 384,020 |
Just another day to me. Haha. I was actually reading the IMDb boards during class today, and they had a big fight about the calender and it's connection to Christianity on the 10,000BC threads.
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Feb 29 2008, 07:06 PM
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 Thread Killer Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 1,012 Joined: Jun 2007 Member No: 530,544 |
QUOTE(moninja @ Feb 29 2008, 06:45 PM) i kindof feel bad for all the babies born today...even though it's kind of cool. +free mcskillet @ mickeyd's if you buy a drink today happy leap year day. I forgot to swing by McDonalds, and when I did, it was past breakfast. |
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Feb 29 2008, 07:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 6,349 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 455,274 |
QUOTE(S-Majere @ Feb 29 2008, 06:58 PM) There's a tradition where the woman in a relationship can propose to her man on Feb 29th. A blessing for the bloke whom only has to remember anniversaries every seventh year. Oh - leap years keep the calendar in check. Wiki it. hmmm.... how come Aztec/Mayan calendar (which is what we base our calendar system on in the western hemisphere) doesn't use leap year? o.o; Oh I see why... It seems that at some point in history (now I gotta research it further) the Aztec/Mayan calendar wasn't a good enough calendar (HA!) so they switched the Aztec/Mayan calendar to Julian then Gregorian -,- Edit: Gregorian dates The average length of a year in the Julian calendar is 365.25 days, differing from the value of the mean solar year by about .0078 days. This resulted in a slow shift of the Julian calendrical year with respect to the solar year (i.e. to the solstices and equinoxes). By the 16th Century the Julian calendar was seriously out of synch with the seasons and Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian Calendar. This involved three changes: (a) The day following October 4, 1582, was declared to be October 15, 1582, thereby excising ten days from the calendar. (b) A year was declared to be a leap year if (i) it was divisible by 4 but not by 100 or (ii) it was divisible by 400. New rules for determining the date of Easter were introduced. The Gregorian Calendar is now commonly used throughout the West and is the de facto international common calendar. There have been numerous suggestions for replacing it with a more "rational" calendar, but old habits die hard and any change would be expensive. Julian's supposed to be the Romantic version of both Mayan and Aztec. |
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Feb 29 2008, 08:30 PM
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 Ohhh yes. Group: Official Member Posts: 1,148 Joined: Jul 2007 Member No: 552,569 |
My Leap Day was kinda ehh. It was just another day. I pointed it out every time I wrote the date though.
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Feb 29 2008, 08:31 PM
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 <joke> inside </joke> Group: Official Member Posts: 2,283 Joined: Oct 2006 Member No: 470,590 |
leap years suck because its one more day in the school year
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Feb 29 2008, 08:32 PM
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 I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite :-) Group: Official Member Posts: 3,008 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 601,399 |
it seemes like every other day but, Happy Leap Year Day to you all too!
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Feb 29 2008, 09:17 PM
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 An original Harry Potter fan Group: Official Member Posts: 1,469 Joined: Jul 2007 Member No: 552,023 |
Happy leap year!
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Feb 29 2008, 09:27 PM
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Happy leap year day.
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Feb 29 2008, 09:37 PM
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muhfucka yo mama's a bitch Group: Banned Posts: 1,461 Joined: Feb 2007 Member No: 506,674 |
bout to blaze 2 grams
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Feb 29 2008, 10:25 PM
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 Fellatio. Group: Official Member Posts: 2,122 Joined: Mar 2007 Member No: 511,775 |
It wuz sooo borrinnggg.
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Feb 29 2008, 10:51 PM
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 Free the Caged Bird. Let it Sing. Group: Member Posts: 168 Joined: Feb 2008 Member No: 622,056 |
My leap year day was so sad. I went around the whole day thinking it was March 1st, because I'm dumb.
So in my life it didn't really exist until about 2:00 when one of my teachers stopped to correct me. |
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Mar 1 2008, 03:29 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 3,071 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 41,748 |
Meh nothing interesting really. Most of today sucked actually. Bleh.
I can't believe February is already over though. |
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Mar 1 2008, 09:18 AM
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Hurray, white history month again.
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Mar 1 2008, 10:02 AM
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 (′ ･ω･｀) Group: Official Designer Posts: 6,179 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 72,477 |
i never understand when to celebrate a person's birthday if they were born on leap year day.
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