Time flies when conducting these interviews. Another one in the can as of today. Speaking of which, that is the interview subject. No, not a blind date! Not just any date, but an odd date!1
Theodore: Thank you for being here today, like you had any choice(lol)!2
Odd Date: Ummmm, yeaaaaaah!3
Theodore: I will have to say that I knew you were not going to stand me up like some previous dates.4
Odd Date: How right you are! It's like you said, I had no choice.5
Theodore: Let's not be too sarcastic(lol)! I don't want people to think I have you here against your own free will.6
Odd Date: You don't, but somebody does you know.7
Theodore: I thought you would feel special because of your given status. Is it not true?8
Odd Date: Think about it! Alot of people hate me!9
Theodore: Why do you say that? I adore you!10
Odd Date: I think you're in the minority. It's the majority where I catch hell.11
Theodore: I'm guessing you have your reasons that you're about to share with the audience and myself.12
Odd Date: Well...there's the planning where people make sure anything and everything in their control stays away from me. There are things that happen on me that can't be controlled.13
Theodore: Happen on you. That doesn't sound good. No one is throwing food at you are they?14
Odd Date: Not at all! I like things to happen on me. I just don't like it when it's done sarcastically.15
Theodore: I'm sure that could hurt anyone's feelings done in such a way.16
Odd Date: I know that some guys would like to wed this date, but have a hard time talking their future spouses into it.17
Theodore: You said wed!18
Odd Date: Yeah, you know...tie the knot!19
Theodore: I was just making sure I heard you right.20
Odd Date: I think the problem is anniversary issues!21
Theodore: I can understand that.22
Odd Date: Can you imagine being born today?23
Theodore: You mean with everything you have to deal with in this world?24
Odd Date: Not actually! I'm talking about birthdays.25
Theodore: Oh yeah, I see your point.26
Odd Date: That's why I'm called an odd date. That may be odd in itself. I do have an odd number about me. However, I always happen on even years on even intervals. That's what I find to be odd!27
Theodore: I can see why it seems quite odd!28
Odd Date: I guess I could look on the bright side, I actually show up every four years and a dog ages seven for each calendar year. So does that make someone who was born on my day forty years from now, ten? That would suck to get ten birthday presents and lose out on thirty others!29
Theodore: You're probably right about having no advantages being born on a leap year. I'm trying to remain optimistic of having you around every four years. 30
Odd Date: Come up with any yet?31
Theodore: I'm still thinking...32
Odd Date: That's great, I do feel like an odd date. I bet blind dates have a better time than me!33
Theodore: I think that may be a bit of a stretch.34
Odd Date: Now was that suppose to be a joke?35
Theodore: No, what do you mean?36
Odd Date: S-t-r-e-t-c-h! Like as in leap since that's what I am!37
Theodore: Ooooooh no, just a bad choice of a word. Please accept my apology.38
Odd Date: Accepted! Think of anything good that I should be happy about?39
Theodore: Nope! Wait a minute, you're an additional day to make money. Then again, that's also more taxes to pay. Hmmmmmmm, I got it!40
Odd Date: Okay, I'm waiting to hear it!41
Theodore: You're so special that we decided to celebrate you every four years while every other day on the calendar becomes envious that year.42
Odd Date: Awwwwww, you're just saying that to make me feel good about driving everyone crazy for all the chaos I cause by being an odd date.43
Theodore: Guilty! But did it make you feel good for at least a second today?44
Odd Date: Only for a second! Now I have to get back to being odd and creating havoc with my leapness! I want to thank you for interviewing me. It's probably the nicest thing anyone has done for me since I'm hated more than not.45
Theodore: You're welcome and I thank you for allowing it to happen.46
Odd Date: Like you said, I was here and didn't have much of a choice. I will be willing to be interviewed four years from now if you choose to do so.47
Theodore: Well, it's a date then(lol)!48
Odd Date: Yep, I will only be a leap away and will see you then!
Author notes
Here is a link where you can view all top 50 leap year facts. There are several selected ones listed below.
http://www.ok50.com/relationships/top50tipsLeapYearFacts.asp
#3: Julius Caesar proclaimed the last day of February as Leap Year Day, skipping it three out of four years. Back then, February 30th was the last day of the last month of the year, which is why he picked it.
#4: Julius also threw in a month in honour of himself (Julius - July).
#6: In 4 A.D. Emperor Caesar Augustus corrected a counting error in Leap Years. He also had the month of August named after him, and took the last day of February so that August can have 31 days, just like Julius' month. Now February has 29 days in Leap Years.
#8: Pope Gregory determined that Leap Day should fall on any year divisible by 4 but not 100 (except when the year is divisible by 400).
#9: Century years were made leap years if they were divisible by 400. So, 2000 was a Leap Year, but 1900 was not.
#17:Leap Year was the traditional time that women could propose marriage. When the rules of courtship were stricter, women were only allowed to pop the question on one day every four years - February 29th.
#18: It is believed this tradition was started in 5th century Ireland when St.Bridget complained to St. Patrick about women having to wait for so long for a man to propose. So, according to legend, St. Patrick said women could propose on this one day in February during the Leap Year.
#25: Herman Hollerith developed the first computer on Leap Day 1860. He had been a special agent for the US census, and developed punch cards and electric tabulating machines in time to process the census returns, reducing considerably the time needed to complete the clerical work. Hollerith's venture became part of what is now the IBM Corporation.
#28: Dutch scientists produced solid helium on Leap Day 1908.
#29: The discovery of the first pulsar in space was announced on Leap Day 1968.
#46: There was a time when Leap Year Balls happened all throughout the Leap Year. Women were given the "right" to ask a man for his hand in marriage. They were afforded a lovely place to display themselves, and propose their man of choice, at lavish and fantastic Leap Year Balls. If the man declined her proposal he had to provide her with a silk dress and a kiss on the cheek.
#49: Make a Leap Year Kiss Cake - Take one armful of pretty girl, 1 lovely face, 2 laughing brown or blue eyes, 2 rosy cheeks and 2 lips like strawberries. Mix well and press to lips. The result will be astonishing. For frosting take 1 piece of dark piazza and a little moonlight, and press into 1 large or small hand so as not to attract attention, 2 ounces of romance and 1 or 2 whiskers. Dissolve half a dozen glances into a quantity of hesitation and 2 ounces of yielding. Place kisses on blushing lips or cheeks. Flavour with a slight scream and set aside to cool.
#50: Yes, Superman is a Leap Day Baby! He is a comic book character, so he can have whatever birthday his creator decides to give him. An article in TIME magazine, March 14 1988, proclaimed Superman to be born on February 29. However, If you figure it out, there is no way anyone can be 50 'years' old on February 29, of any Leap Year. They would have to be 48 or 52. And, if someone did turn 50 'Leap Years' old on February 29, 1988, they would have been born in 1784!
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hahah that made me giggle!! I like leap year. the last leap year allowed me to turn 21 on a Monday instead of a Sunday, allowing me to renew my license ON my birthday
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oh, i get it! an odd date! that's pretty clever! but in fact number forty-nine, you only mention women with blue or brown eyes. what about women with green, hazel, and grey eyes? don't we deserve leap year kisses too?
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Interesting interview.. and I really did like #49 on your list.
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hb, thank you for your sweet commentTed E
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That was incredibly odd I have to say. But it was entertaining. Interviewing an odd day from a leap year, very unique and very weird. I'm still not sure what to think of it, but it was interesting.
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ES, thank you for the marvelous comment and I have a couple of other odd interviews as I try to make them that way
Ted E
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Giz, never knew all those facts. Another great interview. So, you were having an interview with a leap year? Very odd indeed. Nonetheless, liked it, and at some parts the interview was quite...well, what's the word when you don't get questions answered in as much detail as you'd like? Hang on, let me think. Well, great job! What's the next one going to be?
--RT
PS: Still haven't found the word for that yet.
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RT, thank you very much for a great comment and will have to get busy to write another interviewTed E
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That was amazing an interview with leap day..lol nice ted e bare! great job
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jojo, thank you so much for your great commentTed E
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I feel so bad for that odd date
most of my comment goes with the author's notes, though. #49 is a hoot. Mom and I both had a naughty little giggle.
great write! you have an awesome way with words! luv ya
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zw, thank you very much for an endearing commentTed E
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LOL oh my gosh! Now that was extremely clever. I never would have guessed at the first of it that you meant leap year until I got towards the end. So cute and creative! Poor Odd date feeling so odd and left out. Awwww lol. You really do have a way with words and a way to create a creative masterpiece from things I never would have dreamed of. Absolutely loved this!
~Joann
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JoAnn, thank you for such a wonderful commentTed E
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Enchanting Tribute to Leap Year
Awesome! Just had me LMAO at how you captured my attention and I just loved the interview. Ms.Odd Date seem to have a darn good time. Even if it did bother her at being the Unique Leapness this year. This was so clever and entertaining....write on TedE...........Yvonn
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I can see I have not been here in awhile, thank you so much for your sweet commentTed E
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