# Happy Leap Day!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 29, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484 "2016-02-29T06:19:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/1 "2016-02-29T06:19:06Z")
Yes, it’s that once-every-four-years day! Are you doing anything special?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/2 "2016-02-29T07:30:49Z")
Sacrificing a goat. That’s about it.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/3 "2016-02-29T09:33:00Z")
Do any Dopers have a 2/29 birthday?
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### Author:  [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/4 "2016-02-29T12:42:33Z")
Just another day in -un-paradise
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### Author:  [@Meanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meanie)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/5 "2016-02-29T13:29:03Z")
Well, it’s only my birthday.
So yeah, there’s that, I guess.
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/6 "2016-02-29T13:30:24Z")
It’s the birthday of my favourite comedian. (Even his birth date is funny.) He’s 10 years old today.
I’m not really actually doing anything unusual today, as far as I know.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/7 "2016-02-29T13:45:45Z")
I just wish it weren’t a Monday. I have to work as usual.
Happy February 29th!
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### Author:  [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/8 "2016-02-29T13:52:09Z")
Celebrating the unofficial end of the MLB off-season. And [reading articles](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/02/the-leaplings-birthday-paradox/470361/) about the hard knock life of leap babies.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/9 "2016-02-29T15:14:23Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Sacrificing a goat. That’s about it.
I prefer chickens with just a hint of Christian overtones to the ceremony. 😉
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/10 "2016-02-29T15:33:54Z")
Not really. Working in government/politics, leap year only makes things busier. We had some libations back in 2000 for the once-in-400 leap century year.
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### Author:  [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/11 "2016-02-29T16:17:52Z")
I completed my PhD on this day in 2000. Turns out a former co-worker also completed her PhD on that day. Strange coincidence.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/12 "2016-02-29T16:54:00Z")
I’m writing 2/29/16 a lot.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/13 "2016-02-29T17:31:28Z")
I did something very special. I missed a day of school without calling in for the first time in 28 years! :mad: :smack:
I went into the sub system yesterday to arrange for a sub for my classes today, **March 1st**. Total brain-fart, which left my 1st period class just standing around in the quad and the receptionist calling to see if I was alive. Total flashback to Nick Nolte in the first five minutes of [Teachers.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088242/)
Way to go, dumbass!
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### Author:  [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/14 "2016-02-29T17:33:14Z")
> [@Meanie](#):
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> Well, it’s only my birthday.
> So yeah, there’s that, I guess.
Just out of curiosity, what day do you celebrate your birthday in non-leap years?
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### Author:  [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/15 "2016-02-29T18:10:56Z")
Actually rarer than 1/4 years, since years / 100 are not leap years unless they are also / 400.
So it is a 97 times out of 400 event.
Brian
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/16 "2016-02-29T18:25:34Z")
> [@Meanie](#):
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> Well, it’s only my birthday.
> So yeah, there’s that, I guess.
Were you angry that your parents started making you go to school at 1 year old?
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### Author:  [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/17 "2016-02-29T18:37:08Z")
I’m sending flowers to my childhood friend who has a birthday today. I’ve done that every 4 years when she has an actual birthday for years. She’ll be 15 today.
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### Author:  [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/18 "2016-02-29T20:16:11Z")
I’ve always thought it a lack of civilizational imagination that we traipse off to work this day like any other day. Today should be a holiday four times as unique as any other holiday.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/19 "2016-02-29T22:24:54Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#):
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> I’m sending flowers to my childhood friend who has a birthday today. I’ve done that every 4 years when she has an actual birthday for years. She’ll be 15 today.
I sent birthday greetings to a friend, who by coincidence, also turned 15 this year.
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### Author:  [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-leap-day/747484/20 "2016-02-29T22:49:00Z")
It’s my wedding anniversary. 7 (28 years). Out to dinner with my guy:)
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