Leap Day Commemoration
Today is Leap Day. An extra day added to the year which we celebrate as a gift (and not at all as a mistake being corrected in how humanity had been so clearly mis-tracking time for over a thousand years). And of course this day is given to us at the end of February, so we can savor more time in the lovely weather just before spring begins (which in no way is making up for Julius & Augustus Ceasars greedily stealing days from February to add to their newly created eponymous summer months, such that no other months in the year would be longer than theirs).
Yet today is special... a day that only comes about once every four years and has that unique special character to it. A quality, if you will - one that prompts people to recall what has transpired in the past, take stock of the present, and hope for the future.
So however you plan to honor your Leap Year today, remember this:
It has now happened twice since the last time Ryan Day beat Michigan.
Enjoy!
February 29th, 2024 at 7:06 AM ^
Trying to figure out how to celebrate the day appropriately. It is an odd day for sure. How does one celebrate the 29th as their birthday when it’s not Leap Year.
February 29th, 2024 at 7:27 AM ^
You wear blue and yellow and wait for Leap Dave William to come from the Mariana Trench to trade candy for children's tears.
Duh.
February 29th, 2024 at 7:43 AM ^
29 beers and 29 wings
February 29th, 2024 at 10:23 AM ^
this is correct
February 29th, 2024 at 8:38 AM ^
I celebrate on the 28th because I was born in February, not March.
February 29th, 2024 at 8:41 AM ^
I knew someone else who celebrated on March 1 because they were born on the day after the 28th.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:35 AM ^
Happy birthday The Fugitive!
February 29th, 2024 at 11:56 AM ^
For a large portion of my childhood I thought that being born on leap day meant you aged at 1/4 the rate everyone else did, meaning i thought leap day babies were developmentally adolescents until like 80 years old.
I was legitimately mourning a friend having a baby on leap day when my Mom finally corrected that fallacy. Fun times
February 29th, 2024 at 3:44 PM ^
I wonder if the Montessori approach to education would have helped you here? On a birthday (if it is during the school year) there is a little celebration where the class sits in a big circle in the center of the room and together the class counts the number of trips around the sun for the child whose birthday it is (while parents bring and pass around a photograph taken during each one of those trips around the sun :^).
I thought it was a pretty cool tradition, educational activity, celebration/recognition.
February 29th, 2024 at 8:11 PM ^
Wait. You were old enough to have friends having babies and still thought this!?
February 29th, 2024 at 12:47 PM ^
Me too.
February 29th, 2024 at 1:32 PM ^
HBD, JB
February 29th, 2024 at 2:52 PM ^
HBD to you as well!
February 29th, 2024 at 10:26 AM ^
My cousin just celebrates when there's a 29th and jokingly tells everyone she's 1/4 of her actual age. It's hilarious. Or so she thinks.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:06 AM ^
My best friend's father was born on Leap Day. He often celebrated on both the 28th and the 1st, just to make sure. If he were still alive, he would finally have enough birthdays to celebrate legally.
February 29th, 2024 at 7:27 AM ^
happy Leap Day
February 29th, 2024 at 7:44 AM ^
I honestly haven't considered a Leap Day celebration before.
I do know someone whose birthday is actually today, but for the other three years in each "cycle", it's a flex holiday, being either February 28th or March 1st depending on the availability of time and celebrants (if celebrating). It's all perfectly messy, quite frankly.
February 29th, 2024 at 8:02 AM ^
I think I'll celebrate with a seventh straight win by the Red Wings.
(And the start of our run to the big dance in Rutgers).
February 29th, 2024 at 11:16 AM ^
Don't sleep on the Islanders. I just hope Patty Roy doesn't fight Alex Lyon tonight! Lyon is a bit fragile
February 29th, 2024 at 10:37 PM ^
Or not
February 29th, 2024 at 8:03 AM ^
My mother in law turns 19 today.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:33 AM ^
I would leap that.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:06 AM ^
A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a 🦄
February 29th, 2024 at 8:04 AM ^
It was in the 60’s here for a couple of days leading into March. Then a cold front came through yesterday afternoon and I woke up to 38 degrees. Leap Day is reminding me that the February freeze isn’t over yet.
February 29th, 2024 at 8:23 AM ^
It was 70° up north, here in Michigan on Wednesday. We went to bed it was still 57°. When I woke up 5 hours later it was 17 and the wind was blowing 35 miles an hour out of the north with 3 inches of snow.
February 29th, 2024 at 1:07 PM ^
"If you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes"
So true in the Midwest, especially the Spring!
February 29th, 2024 at 5:35 PM ^
And it's not even spring yet!
February 29th, 2024 at 8:10 AM ^
An extra day this year to celebrate our National Championship. Could it get any better?
February 29th, 2024 at 9:27 AM ^
Since we won the CFP National Championship on January 8, 2024 and the next CFP National Championship game is on January 20, 2025, we will be CFP National Champions for 378 days.
February 29th, 2024 at 9:39 AM ^
That's not exactly true, because Michigan is going to win it again next year.
February 29th, 2024 at 8:24 AM ^
I think it would be a fine day to fire warde. We could always remember him fondly every four years.
February 29th, 2024 at 9:37 AM ^
If you were born on February 29th 1980, do you tell people that you are "celebrating your 11th birthday today"?
February 29th, 2024 at 1:17 PM ^
Asking for a friend?
February 29th, 2024 at 9:54 AM ^
There's a lot different than 4 years ago for Michigan Football. Lets not make that the case this go around. Keep it going!
February 29th, 2024 at 10:06 AM ^
Bachelor's Day, sometimes known as Ladies' Privilege, is an Irish tradition by which women are allowed to propose to men on Leap Day, 29 February, based on a legend of Saint Bridget and Saint Patrick. It once had legal basis in Scotland and England.
February 29th, 2024 at 2:08 PM ^
I believe Sadie Hawkins Day (Nov 13th and well known to residents of Dogpatch and fans of Little Abner) was inspired by the traditional Leap Day events.
The comic strip writer changed the date to mid November so that he'd have a built-in story line every year.
Eventually writer Al Capp's comic strip storyline evolved into Li'l Abner's efforts to evade his girlfriend Daisy on that day.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:08 AM ^
Sort of like the Olympics, it's an interesting day to look back and see how one's life has evolved and changed over the past 4 years.
Between 29-February-1988 and 29-February-1992 my life was the same as regards 3 big items. I was living in Detroit, and had no job and no girlfriend/partner both days. The latter 2 because I was still just a kid.
But for every other 4 year gap, at least one of those 3 things has changed: where I live, where I'm working or my relationship status.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:27 AM ^
Why is February the longest month of the year? Man it seems like it's dragging. It feels like it should be over already.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:35 AM ^
JAASSSSSON!!! RAAAAAAAAANDY!!!! I NEEED TAKES HOTTER THAN PATRICK KANE SINCE HE JOINED THE WINGS!
But seriously, I'm going to see the Sklar's at the Comedy Castle in Royal Oak tonight! Should be a good show.
February 29th, 2024 at 10:42 AM ^
My wife turns 15 today. Happy Birthday, E!
February 29th, 2024 at 11:09 AM ^
My thoughts condemn me.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:06 AM ^
Black history month gets an extra day to be celebrated.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:14 AM ^
I always think of a girl I went to highschool with born on leap day, she is turning 9 today, and I also see Michigan Hockeys very own Phillipe LaPointe is turning 6!
February 29th, 2024 at 12:12 PM ^
As a CPA, adding an extra day to tax season to get things done is more than welcomed in my world.
February 29th, 2024 at 12:37 PM ^
Now I can say I posted on this board on February 29th.
February 29th, 2024 at 1:21 PM ^
I’m buying 100 put leaps in amzn
February 29th, 2024 at 2:01 PM ^
It's Rossini's birthday, who wrote nearly forty operas from 1812 to 1829, including such stirring and famous works as:
The Useless Precaution, otherwise known as The Barber of Seville,
(La gazza ladra) The Thieving Magpie,
(ossia Ottone, re d'Italia) Otto, King of Italy,
(ossia Il cambio della valigia) The Exchanged Suitcase
(Ugo, re d'Italia) Hugo, King of Italy,
and last but certainly not least:
Guillaume Tell, otherwise known as (The Lone Ranger Theme Song) William Tell,
But sadly, apparently he did not actually compose Duetto buffo di due gatti (The Cat Duet),
which some in the past had erroneously attributed to him. 😅
(thanks to Wiki)
February 29th, 2024 at 2:01 PM ^
The lights in my office are going out and now I have Leap Year mood lighting in the office.
February 29th, 2024 at 5:11 PM ^
I have to say that I'm pretty upset that Office 365 is working today.