Lyr Req: Leap year verses

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leap year verses
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 05:28 PM

From Pirates of Penzance A Paradox

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!

Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leap year verses
From: GUEST,Frances
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 04:54 PM

Thanks, thats the type I want.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leap year verses
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 05:05 AM

like THIS ? - with apologies to Freud.

Regards

Subject: Lyr Req: Leap year verses
From: GUEST,Frances
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 07:37 PM

Hi folks,
Could anyone help me find a recitation/poem/monologue
about the leap year. Comic would be great.
Thanks,
Frances