# 32 or 8 anniversary **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 29, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700 "2020-02-29T13:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/1 "2020-02-29T13:13:07Z")
Today is our 32 or 8 th wedding anniversary. Weee we’re off to Italy Monday:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/2 "2020-02-29T15:06:06Z")
Congrats. An old friend of mine’s daughter was born in 2000 and having her 5th birthday today. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/3 "2020-02-29T16:22:35Z")
My son is celebrating the 7th anniversary of having proposed to his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/4 "2020-02-29T16:31:29Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Today is our 32 or 8 th wedding anniversary. Weee we’re off to Italy Monday:eek: In normal years, do you celebrate it on the first day of March, or the last day of February? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/5 "2020-02-29T17:48:29Z")
The opera composer Gioachino Rossini was born in 1792, and is only 57 today. And Dinah Shore, born in 1916, is 26 today. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/6 "2020-02-29T20:44:13Z")
I was due 56 years ago today, but I solved that problem by hanging on for a few more days. Had I been born on that due date, I would not technically be able to legally vote until 2036, or be able to drink any and all alcoholic beverages until 2048. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/7 "2020-02-29T23:16:28Z")
Don’t stay up till 25 or 6 to 4. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/8 "2020-03-01T00:03:19Z")
Tedious quibble: “Annual” means “yearly,” not “till the next same date”. Any leap-day festivity calls for double the fun. Mark the nth year of life, marriage, or whatever on 28 Feb or 1 Mar; when 29 Feb pops up again, party hearty! 28 Feb should be a general holiday anyway, preferably with slaves and owners trading places - that’s traditional. For added fun, start 29 Feb on one side of the international date line, then cross the line to give yourself a 48-hour day. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/9 "2020-03-01T04:04:17Z")
Hmm. Well, the eighth anniversary is bronze, and the 32nd is conveyances. I’d go with 32, but then you might get the equivalent of what’s behind Door #1: a goat cart. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/10 "2020-03-01T04:08:50Z")
So, you only have to buy a present and go out to dinner every four years? ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/11 "2020-03-01T07:44:31Z")
A local TV station interviewed the parents of our first Leap Year baby, who was born about a half hour after midnight. Her father said, “We’ll let her decide how she wants to celebrate.” (Probably sleep deprived already, and uncomfortable on camera.) ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/12 "2020-03-01T08:54:52Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > In normal years, do you celebrate it on the first day of March, or the last day of February? Both:cool: ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/13 "2020-03-01T09:58:18Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > In normal years, do you celebrate it on the first day of March, or the last day of February? Sometimes on Feb. 28 and sometimes on March 1. What you do is take the exact hour of your birth, and add 365 1/4 days to that, each year until the next leap year. That brings you to Feb. 28 in some years and March 1 in some years. **Master Cecil Himself** discusses in detail, with some complete worked-out examples: [When do leap-day babies celebrate their birthdays?](https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1216/when-do-leap-day-babies-celebrate-their-birthdays/), February 9, 1996. Turns out, even if you are a non-leap-day baby, if you compute your exact birthday this way, it can come out on different days in different years. So there! ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/14 "2020-03-01T16:30:27Z")
My first husband was a leap day baby - he didn’t really celebrate it other than when it was actually a leap year. He jokes he was a SSN nuke kindergardener =) [he was on the old USS Spadefish, may she rust in peace] ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/15 "2020-03-02T02:49:47Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > A local TV station interviewed the parents of our first Leap Year baby, who was born about a half hour after midnight. Her father said, “We’ll let her decide how she wants to celebrate.” (Probably sleep deprived already, and uncomfortable on camera.) Update: They had anticipated a Down Syndrome baby due to ultrasound results; she doesn’t appear to have it but something else is definitely wrong with her. She was in the NICU, with an NG tube and heart monitor, and a mutual friend messaged me on Facebook and told me that she was flown to a nearby university hospital earlier today. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/32-or-8-anniversary/848700/16 "2020-03-02T21:11:41Z")
I would change my plans and go somewhere else than Italy. It’s at level 3 for Coronavirus.