Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!renner From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner ) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: leapyear - (nf) Message-ID: <6010@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 22:26:01 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6010 Posted: Sun Mar 4 22:26:01 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 02:20:13 EST Lines: 17 #R:charm:-26600:uiucdcs:36200109:000:705 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 {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner