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[Rick Moen]

Quoting Texx (texxgadget at gmail.com):

> Quite bluntly, Im embarassed for not thinking of using a fictitious
> birth date as well.  I think Ill start using April 1.

Let me be the first to say, then, a week in advance:  Happy Birthday!

If you go for Feb. 29 instead, you'll be sharing a birthday with
Frederic, the hero of G&S's Pirates of Penzance (1879) whose
hard-of-hearing nursemaid, Ruth, mistakenly apprenticed him to be a
pirate until his 21st birthday (having actually been directed to have
the young man apprenticed to be a _pilot_).  At the beginning of the
operetta, Frederic is about to celebrate turning 21 years old and being
freed from his apprenticeship -- but then his nanny and the Pirate King
regretfully inform him that he still has 63 years to go until his 21st
birthday in the year 1940, having had so far only _five_ birthdays, as
the terms of indenture were until his 21st _birthday_ and he was born on
Leap Year Day.

My favourite of many references to this gag was in the _New York Times_ 
February 29, 1940 edition, where the paper ran a small article
congratulating Frederic on serving his full 84 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/1940/02/29/archives/frederic-goes-free.html

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