On Feb 29, 7:22=A0am, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
> On Feb 29, 8:31=A0am, Amy Guskin  wrote:
>
> > And, happy Frederick's birthday to all of the Gilbert &
Sullivan people =
out
> > there, too.
>
> "You said 'orphan'.
>
> "Yes, but I didn't say it often."
>
> 
>
> Joe

For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I've no desire to be
disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don't know who, very likely the Astronomer
Royal,
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February,
twenty-eight days as
	a rule are plenty,
One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty.
Through some singular coincidence ? I shouldn't be surprised if it
were owing to the
	agency of an ill-natured fairy ?
You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in
leap-year, on the
	twenty-ninth of February;
And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you'll easily discover,
That though you've lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays,
you're only five
	and a little bit over!

Tariq Moustapha
The very model of a modern Major General.
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