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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
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Subject: Re: leapyear - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 22:26:01 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  4 22:26:01 1984
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uiucdcs!renner    Mar  4 20:37:00 1984

   /***** uiucdcs:net.flame / charm!slag / 11:29 pm  Mar  2, 1984 */
>  February is the coldest, ugliest, most depressing and interminable
>  month of the year.  Every four years we are subjected to an 
>  additional 24 hours of torment when February is extended by
>  one more detestable day.  Why can't we have August 32 every
>  four years, or perhaps April 31?  

I thought about it for a while, and I finally came up with the reason:  it's
the Australians' fault! (Or, if it makes you feel better, you can blame it on
South Africa.)  You see, it's *summer* for them on Leap Year's Day.

(If you can't see the sarcasm here, I don't want to read your flame.)
Scott Renner
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