tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5168787469740837956.post933889576357445658..comments2023-05-17T05:23:42.089-04:00Comments on Katywhumpus: A cloak of leadKatyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06506593498698842268noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5168787469740837956.post-35999117088485078032009-02-05T11:21:00.000-05:002009-02-05T11:21:00.000-05:00You should move to Seattle. February is brighter, ...You should move to Seattle. February is brighter, warmer, and not as wet... Now November? That month blows!Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16852083220610784554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5168787469740837956.post-52747747274586412352009-02-04T17:00:00.000-05:002009-02-04T17:00:00.000-05:00No poems, quotes, or pithy sayings, just an observ...No poems, quotes, or pithy sayings, just an observation.<BR/><BR/>I was born in February. I am fairly certain that my mother did this to me on purpose. Ever have a swinging birthday bash on your deck in February? I didn't think so.Melissa Morgan-Oakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924231630580404009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5168787469740837956.post-117989448985879392009-02-04T13:12:00.000-05:002009-02-04T13:12:00.000-05:00Oh, great, thanks...just as I was starting to feel...Oh, great, thanks...just as I was starting to feel good about having survived January, MY least favorite month....Harriet the Spyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775786781485182881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5168787469740837956.post-18918602546458324042009-02-04T13:09:00.000-05:002009-02-04T13:09:00.000-05:00This is actually an explanation of leap year, but ...This is actually an explanation of leap year, but I always liked it.<BR/><BR/>For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I've no desire to be disloyal,<BR/>Some person in authority, I don't know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,<BR/>Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty,<BR/>One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty.<BR/>Through some singular coincidence - I shouldn't be surprised if it were owing to the agency of an ill-natured fairy -<BR/>You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the twenty-ninth of February;<BR/>And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you'll easily discover,<BR/>That though you've lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you're only five and a little bit over!<BR/><BR/>- W.S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan) from <I>The Pirates of Penzance</I>Anisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16229630278779137228noreply@blogger.com