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Sam Mills 51 said:
old_tony said:
dixiehack said:
This was last night's dinner discussion. Why couldn't we just tack on a June 30 once every four years? Who the **** wants to extend February?
I would guess that the extra day every four years had to come somewhere before the first equinox of the year. If it didn't, the invernal equinox would move every four years in the calendar and after hundreds of years winter would be summer and summer would be winter.

I thought it was primarily because February was the shortest month and they had to add the day somewhere, but we'll try your theory. I'm not scientific enough to break this down.

I am intrigued, however, that because there are approximately 365.24 days in a revolution around the sun that Leap Day occurs on a year that can divided by four - except in a year ending with two zeros, in which Leap Day occurs only when the year is divisible by 400.

If it was 365 1/4 exactly, we could just go one leap day every four years and be done with it.

But that extra 1/100 of a day we gain every year adds up in a century. So that's why 1800 and 1900 were not leap years, but 2000 was.

Pope Gregory was a stud.
 
Rumpleforeskin said:
mike311gd said:
imjustagirl said:
mike311gd said:
I've never had a problem with prime numbers.

But 1 isn't a prime number, mikey.

But it sure is a lonely number.

Rumpleforeskin said:
imjustagirl said:
mike311gd said:
I've never had a problem with prime numbers.

But 1 isn't a prime number, mikey.

It is the loneliest.

Can I have my brain back Mikey?

Only if I can have my foreskin back.
 
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mike311gd said:
Rumpleforeskin said:
mike311gd said:
imjustagirl said:
mike311gd said:
I've never had a problem with prime numbers.

But 1 isn't a prime number, mikey.

But it sure is a lonely number.

Rumpleforeskin said:
imjustagirl said:
mike311gd said:
I've never had a problem with prime numbers.

But 1 isn't a prime number, mikey.

It is the loneliest.

Can I have my brain back Mikey?

Only if I can have my foreskin back.

You wouldn't want it back. It's all rumpled.
 
mike311gd said:
BYH said:
ArnoldBabar said:
Football_Bat said:
Pope Gregory was a stud.

There's a sentence I never expected to read here.

More likely, though, reading Mike311gd was a stud.

I'll be a horse someday, my friend. My mom told me I could be anything I wanted to be.

When I was a kid, my mom told me I looked like Kevin Bacon.

your mom and my mom should have tea sometime. They could swap delusional stories of their sons' grace, good looks and suavity. Is suavity a word? It should be goddamnit.
 
BYH said:
mike311gd said:
BYH said:
ArnoldBabar said:
Football_Bat said:
Pope Gregory was a stud.

There's a sentence I never expected to read here.

More likely, though, reading Mike311gd was a stud.

I'll be a horse someday, my friend. My mom told me I could be anything I wanted to be.

When I was a kid, my mom told me I looked like Kevin Bacon.

your mom and my mom should have tea sometime. They could swap delusional stories of their sons' grace, good looks and suavity. Is suavity a word? It should be goddamnit.

Does your mom gamble? Because that's just about all my mom does anymore. It's insane. And she's good. She's paying her new Hybrid off with slot machines.
 
BYH said:
mike311gd said:
BYH said:
ArnoldBabar said:
Football_Bat said:
Pope Gregory was a stud.

There's a sentence I never expected to read here.

More likely, though, reading Mike311gd was a stud.

I'll be a horse someday, my friend. My mom told me I could be anything I wanted to be.

When I was a kid, my mom told me I looked like Kevin Bacon.

your mom and my mom should have tea sometime. They could swap delusional stories of their sons' grace, good looks and suavity. Is suavity a word? It should be goddamnit.
Wow, did she ever lie.

Just kidding.

But seriously.
 

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