Comments on: Too Much Time On My Hands: Why Do We Have Leap Years? http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21350 Feel Smart Again Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:22:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dawn http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21350/comment-page-1#comment-123451 Dawn Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:15:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21350#comment-123451 "We’d have Christmas in the summer and Fourth of July barbecues in the dead of winter. It would be chaos." (Or in the Southern Hemisphere!) Great article! “We’d have Christmas in the summer and Fourth of July barbecues in the dead of winter. It would be chaos.” (Or in the Southern Hemisphere!)

Great article!

]]> By: the creature http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21350/comment-page-1#comment-115999 the creature Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:21:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21350#comment-115999 maybe i'm just still recovering from the New Year's Eve festivities, but this article made my head hurt. :D good info though. maybe i’m just still recovering from the New Year’s Eve festivities, but this article made my head hurt.

:D

good info though.

]]> By: Adam http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21350/comment-page-1#comment-115968 Adam Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:17:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21350#comment-115968 More info on leap years! This is how I found mental_floss in the first place--I'm a leap year baby (1980), and I did a Google search and ended up finding a link to this blog. Now I'm a faithful reader of both it and the magazine. Woot. More info on leap years! This is how I found mental_floss in the first place–I’m a leap year baby (1980), and I did a Google search and ended up finding a link to this blog. Now I’m a faithful reader of both it and the magazine. Woot.

]]> By: PartiallyDeflected http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21350/comment-page-1#comment-115928 PartiallyDeflected Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:19:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21350#comment-115928 We have Leap Year to prove how incompetent Microsoft is. My iPod kept on function fine on Wednesday when Zunes locked up because the geniuses in "I'm a PC" land forgot that 2008 had 366 days. We have Leap Year to prove how incompetent Microsoft is. My iPod kept on function fine on Wednesday when Zunes locked up because the geniuses in “I’m a PC” land forgot that 2008 had 366 days.

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