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Happy Bissextile Leap Day!

24-02-2012 10:56am

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Skerries

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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bissextile

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#2 24-02-2012 10:57am

Jen Pigs Fly

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You're 5 days early :rolleyes:

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#3 24-02-2012 10:58am

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It's the 24th today

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#4 24-02-2012 10:58am

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Skerries wrote: »

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bissextile

nerd :P

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#5 24-02-2012 11:02am

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xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

You're 5 days early :rolleyes:

He's right:

... the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or "bissextile" day since the third century...

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#6 24-02-2012 11:05am

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jester77 wrote: »

He's right:

If you pretend that we haven't updated our calendar since Roman times, perhaps.

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#7 24-02-2012 11:08am

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That's not a real word.

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#8 24-02-2012 11:12am

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Should we start celebrating the remaining days in a month more often now?

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#9 24-02-2012 11:32am

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dictionaries are gay

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#10 24-02-2012 11:49am

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FatherLen wrote: »

dictionaries are gay

they aren't that happy

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#11 24-02-2012 11:56am

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Thread lacks percieved sexyness.

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#12 24-02-2012 12:49pm

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I read that word as 'bisexual'

I was wondering what the leap day had to do with bisexuals. But now I know :cool:

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#13 24-02-2012 12:52pm

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Try again next week.

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