Leap Day babies

grenache

Seeing as it's approaching the time that the Leap Day would occur at (if it was a Leap Year), I must ask are there any Feb 29th babies on here? And if so, how do you feel about your birthday - or is the case 75% of the time, your lack of one?

I popped out 29th Feb 1984. I have always wished my mum could have held out until St David's Day. Things would have been so much easier.

Sir Arthur Daley

I was born 29th of May on a leap year

grenache

grenache wrote: »

Seeing as it's approaching the time that the Leap Day would occur at (if it was a Leap Year), I must ask are there any Feb 29th babies on here? And if so, how do you feel about your birthday - or is the case 75% of the time, your lack of one?

I popped out 29th Feb 1984. I have always wished my mum could have held out until St David's Day. Things would have been so much easier.

You're not allowed to post on this site as you are only 7 1/2 years old!

The Backwards Man

I'm a baby every day of the year.

Fred Swanson

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grenache

WikiHow wrote: »

I was born 29th of May on a leap year

Good for you. You're not a leap day baby

calanus

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm a baby every day of the year.

Whaaa?

endacl

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

You're not allowed to post on this site as you are only 7 1/2 years old!

That's a minor worry. One more day and Wiki wouldn't have to wait 72 years for a legal pint!

Sir Arthur Daley

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm a baby every day of the year.

That explains Boo-Wow

grenache

Fred Swanson wrote: »

How does that work when you go looking for a driving licence?

Nobody notices. The siginificance is lost on most folk, only the odd person, like a guard, might make some smart remark.

ProudDUB

I've been wondering about this too. My sister in law is expecting a baby on the 28th of Feb. What happens if she (or anyone else) goes over one extra day, in a Leap Year? I know that the child would state Feb 29th as their birthday, for state and official purposes. But what day would they actually celebrate it on...Feb 28th, or March 1st?

grenache

ProudDUB wrote: »

I've been wondering about this too. My sister in law is expecting a baby on the 28th of Feb. What happens if she (or anyone else) goes over one extra day, in a Leap Year? I know that the child would state Feb 29th as their birthday, for state and official purposes. But what day would they actually celebrate it on...Feb 28th, or March 1st?

It would be down to the person themselves I guess. When I was younger, I used to celebrate it on Feb 28th, as I saw myself as a Feb baby. Another leaper I know celebrates it on March 1st, as that's the 60th day of the year ( and so is Feb 29 in a leap year).

Nowadays I myself only celebrate it when Feb 29 comes around, so the 28th or 1st mean nothing to me personally.

MS.ing

grenache wrote: »

It would be down to the person themselves I guess. When I was younger, I used to celebrate it on Feb 28th, as I saw myself as a Feb baby. Another leaper I know celebrates it on March 1st, as that's the 60th day of the year ( and so is Feb 29 in a leap year).

Nowadays I myself only celebrate it when Feb 29 comes around, so the 28th or 1st mean nothing to me personally.

when you put it like that the 60th day of the year makes the most sense, so just celebrate your birthday on the 60th day of the year cause that will never change. infact when I think about it we are the ones with the ****ed up system because we celebrate the date so we are always a day out +/-1 day. we are all frauds and are doing it wrong :eek:

yenom

Do ya ever have hassle with online forms that might not have the 29th?

grenache

yenom wrote: »

Do ya ever have hassle with online forms that might not have the 29th?

Nope. When I click 1984, the 29th always appears.

Although there was an online thing for birthstones I was browsing last year and the dates went from Feb 8th to 28th, then March 1st to 20th

endacl

grenache wrote: »

Nope. When I click 1984, the 29th always appears.

Although there was an online thing for birthstones I was browsing last year and the dates went from Feb 8th to 28th, then March 1st to 20th

Not a major issue. 'Birthstones' are daft. Pick any old pebble you like.

grenache

endacl wrote: »

Not a major issue. 'Birthstones' are daft. Pick any old pebble you like.

I said they could keep their stupid pebble, and promptly exited the site. Damn them, removing a whole day like that.

grenache

Top 20 Leap Year Facts

1. Queen Margaret of Scotland was apparently five years old when she came up with the notorious February 29 proposal trap.

2. If a man did refuse the proposal, he would be fined a kiss, a silk dress or twelve pairs of gloves.

3. Women either have to wear breeches or a scarlet petticoat to pop the question, according to tradition.

4. One in five engaged couples in Greece will plan to avoid getting married in a leap year. They believe it is bad luck.

5. People born on February 29 are called "leaplings" or "leapers".

6. The poet Lord Byron was born on a Leap Day.

7. So was the rapper Ja Rule.

8. The plot of Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance revolved around Frederic's discovery that, because he is a leapling, he must remain apprenticed to pirates and serve another 63 years before he can join Mabel, his one true love.

9. Anthony, Texas is the self-proclaimed "Leap Year Capital of the World". It holds a festival which includes a guided trip to Aztec Cave, "fun at the horse farm" and square dancing.

10. Parties are sometimes thrown to celebrate leap days. There is no special leap day food but if there was, it would probably be frog’s legs.

12. Matthew Goode, the British film star who acted in the film Leap Year, said he knew the movie would be remembered as the "worst film of 2011" but wanted to be "close to home and able to visit his girlfriend and newborn daughter."

13. February 29 also marks Rare Disease Day.

14. Today you are working for free if you're on a fixed annual wage.

15. Astrologers believe people born on February 29 have unusual talents, such as the ability to burp the alphabet or paint like Picasso.

16. Mitsukuni "honey" Haninozuka, the manga and anime character born on a leap day, likes sweets, cake and stuffed toys. It is joked that, although he's 17, he's really six years old.

17. Hugh Hefner opened his first Playboy Club on February 29 1960.

18. The character Leap Day William who appeared in an episode of 30 Rock wears blue and yellow.

19. The French call leapfrog "saute-mouton", which translates literally as "leap sheep".

20. The frog is a symbol associated with February 29. The Australian rocket frog can leap over two metres.

jester77

hmm, getting married on Feb 29th is sounding like a good idea, only have to remember the anniversary and presents ever 4 years instead of every year.

Davarus Walrus

In some of the remote islands off Scotland leap day babies would be sacrificed to Barinthus, Celtic God of the Sea. This barbaric practice went on in some of them until 1978.

anncoates

Just have it on another day.

I have a friend who celebrated his birthday on the wrong day for years as his ma misremembered the actual date and only realized when they had to check the birth certificate for some reason.

Muise...

anncoates wrote: »

Just have it on another day.

I have a friend who celebrated his birthday on the wrong day for years as his ma misremembered the actual date and only realized when they had to check the birth certificate for some reason.

My grandmother had two birthdays - the one her mother told her and the one on her birth cert, which her father filled in a few days and many pints in town later at the height of the war of independence. She always celebrated on the date in between the two birthdays she was given by her parents.

goose2005

anncoates wrote: »

Just have it on another day.

I have a friend who celebrated his birthday on the wrong day for years as his ma misremembered the actual date and only realized when they had to check the birth certificate for some reason.

translation : secretly adopted

Wotsername

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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I imagine it works the same way it would do any other day. You put on you're glasses, and try to remember where you were when you last had it?:)

Wacker The Attacker

If I were born on the 29th Feb i'd **** to celebrate