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13 Jan 04 - 07:37 PM (#1092270) Subject: Lyr Req: Leap year verses From: GUEST,Frances Hi folks, Could anyone help me find a recitation/poem/monologue about the leap year. Comic would be great. Thanks, Frances |
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14 Jan 04 - 05:05 AM (#1092519) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leap year verses From: GUEST,Martin Ryan like THIS ? - with apologies to Freud. Regards |
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17 Jan 04 - 04:54 PM (#1095059) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leap year verses From: GUEST,Frances Thanks, thats the type I want. |
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17 Jan 04 - 05:28 PM (#1095083) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Leap year verses From: Nigel Parsons 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 |