Happy Leap Day, everybody. Even more special than Leap Day is that this is the fifth Friday in February, which only happens in leap years when February 1st is on a Friday. And that’s only something like once every 28 years, so this is only the second one in my lifetime (so far; it’s about 50-50 odds that I’ll be around for another one).
I thought maybe there would be some interesting things that would happen on such an auspicious day, but couldn’t really find much. On the last one – in 1980 – Gordie Howe became the first NHL player to score 800 goals. Before that, in 1952, Dick Button won his 5th consecutive World Figure Skating championship. That’s about it, I guess. Not too exciting.
Maybe Bill O’Reilly could give away free falalaloofahs on fifth Friday in February day? Or at least the first five hundred fifty-five Fox fascists who buy four falalafaloofahs get the fifth fucker for free.
Yeah, the weekend came about a day late this week.