<div dir="ltr">It was onbly a matter of thyme before Gilbert & Sullivan ended up on this list.<div><br></div><div>Yeah, maybe Feb 29 is a better choice.</div><div>In the Linked In article, I might advocate for Mar 32, but somewhere there will be a recruiter who spots that.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>My point is to first raise the security issues on this bad practice perpetrated on the IT contracting community for over 10 years.</div><div>Secondarily, I hope to create a fear amonst recruiters that the data they get will continue to get more bogus as this practice continues.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 10:22 PM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Quoting Texx (<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" target="_blank">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>):<br>
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> Quite bluntly, Im embarassed for not thinking of using a fictitious<br>
> birth date as well. I think Ill start using April 1.<br>
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Let me be the first to say, then, a week in advance: Happy Birthday!<br>
<br>
If you go for Feb. 29 instead, you'll be sharing a birthday with<br>
Frederic, the hero of G&S's Pirates of Penzance (1879) whose<br>
hard-of-hearing nursemaid, Ruth, mistakenly apprenticed him to be a<br>
pirate until his 21st birthday (having actually been directed to have<br>
the young man apprenticed to be a _pilot_). At the beginning of the<br>
operetta, Frederic is about to celebrate turning 21 years old and being<br>
freed from his apprenticeship -- but then his nanny and the Pirate King<br>
regretfully inform him that he still has 63 years to go until his 21st<br>
birthday in the year 1940, having had so far only _five_ birthdays, as<br>
the terms of indenture were until his 21st _birthday_ and he was born on<br>
Leap Year Day.<br>
<br>
My favourite of many references to this gag was in the _New York Times_ <br>
February 29, 1940 edition, where the paper ran a small article<br>
congratulating Frederic on serving his full 84 years.<br>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1940/02/29/archives/frederic-goes-free.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1940/02/29/archives/frederic-goes-free.html</a><br>
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-- <br>
Cheers, « Le doute n'est pas une état bien agréable, mais<br>
Rick Moen l'assurance est un état ridicule. » ("Doubt is not <br>
<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a> a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.')<br>
McQ! (4x80) -- Voltaire <br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div>