Leap Year - To all you Ladies out there...!

[jiminski]

It's the 29th of February for the first time in 4 years.
All around the world, female pheromones are issuing forth from saucy scent glands and doing battle with cheap perfumes concocted of calf placenta, musk and rose-hip!

So tell me; who is taking their man or their woman (who has the slightly gruffer attitude towards make-up) out for dinner and engaging in the age-old tradition and proposing marriage?


Strange one isn't it.. the tradition was born of a time where ladies were expected to take a back-seat.. but were given the opportunity to spark unrequited love into the flames of conjugal partnership once every half a decade!

Is this completely outmoded or do you still like a firm, masculine, guiding hand?

[DAZMCFC]

guiding hand Jimbob.

quick edit and no one will notice.

[mandyb]

call me old fashioned, but I definitely prefer a firm, masculine whatchamacallit. Not to say I'm a total wooz, of course - I still enjoy wearing the trousers occasionaly, albeit of the stretchy pink jeans variety...
In the absence of any one in particular to propose to; how about it Jim? Not marriage maybe but perhaps a no-strings attached night at the chippy?
You seem like a nice boy - bit hairy maybe, but in these days where male hair removal is on the up and up, I find that somewhat refreshing.

[jiminski]

guiding hand Jimbob.

quick edit and no one will notice.

I have no idea what you are talking about Daz! shh

[flashleg8]

The boyfriend of my mates sister (convoluted I know) got wind that my mates sister was going to propose on a leap year so he hid from her all day to avoid it. He now lives with another man in Italy, so best all round really...

And by a strange coincidence one of my other mates is in the Sun newspaper (maybe only the Scottish edition) today cause his girlfriend is proposing to him.

[jiminski]

call me old fashioned, but I definitely prefer a firm, masculine whatchamacallit. Not to say I'm a total wooz, of course - I still enjoy wearing the trousers occasionaly, albeit of the stretchy pink jeans variety...
In the absence of any one in particular to propose to; how about it Jim? Not marriage maybe but perhaps a no-strings attached night at the chippy?
You seem like a nice boy - bit hairy maybe, but in these days where male hair removal is on the up and up, I find that somewhat refreshing.

you are correct, i am more cave-man (albeit in a smoking jacket) than waxed, androgynous metro-sexual.

I thought you were going to teach me pool

[jiminski]

The boyfriend of my mates sister (convoluted I know) got wind that my mates sister was going to propose on a leap year so he hid from her all day to avoid it. He now lives with another man in Italy, so best all round really...

And by a strange coincidence one of my other mates is in the Sun newspaper (maybe only the Scottish edition) today cause his girlfriend is proposing to him.

hahahaha that is both very funny and tragic.. not quite in equal measures.

[DAZMCFC]

The boyfriend of my mates sister (convoluted I know) got wind that my mates sister was going to propose on a leap year so he hid from her all day to avoid it. He now lives with another man in Italy, so best all round really...

And by a strange coincidence one of my other mates is in the Sun newspaper (maybe only the Scottish edition) today cause his girlfriend is proposing to him.

flash where have you been me old china.


....and Jimbob well covered.

[flashleg8]

flash where have you been me old china.

In Afganistan with Prince Harry. Couldn't get on the forums due to that media blackout thingie. It's all good now though!

[DAZMCFC]

flash where have you been me old china.

In Afganistan with Prince Harry. Couldn't get on the forums due to that media blackout thingie. It's all good now though!

[clapper011]

well, I see how it is jim! And to think, I was going to propose to you!

[jiminski]

well, I see how it is jim! And to think, I was going to propose to you!

hey don't fret pet .. Daz is only my squeeze on the side..

[clapper011]

your leaving me for another man?

[jiminski]

your leaving me for another man?

you are a man Clapp!?

[clapper011]

no. But you should know that by now.....I mean we always have a light on.........

[jiminski]

you do realise that i will still go to 'Footie' with Daz and to 'play pool' with Mandy though...

[clapper011]

I know always wandering......

[yeti_c]

once every half a decade!

As much as I liked the prose that led upto this - I feel I must point out your incosistency...

C.

[jiminski]

once every half a decade!

As much as I liked the prose that led upto this - I feel I must point out your incosistency...

C.

hehehe.. well i saw that there could be grounds for argument there Yeti however i was employing a little poetic license so as not to bog down the flow and rhythm of the text... it was also a very subtle joke (translates as not funny at all) as the last of the 4 years is a leap year; a leap is a jump etc etc.
Ahh the fun I have alone on the cold winter nights!

[clapper011]

aww, cold winter nights alone.........poor babe..Hey wait..i'm supose to be mad at you!

[Fruitcake]

jiminski wrote

as the last of the 4 years is a leap year

Err, sorry to be pedantic, but leap years do not occur every 4 years.

[MeDeFe]

jiminski wrote

as the last of the 4 years is a leap year

Err, sorry to be pedantic, but leap years do not occur every 4 years.

Yes, they do?

[Fruitcake]

Nope, they do not.

A leap year occurs whenever the year is divisible by 4 UNLESS the year in question is a century year (1800, 1900 etc). In this case it must be divisible by 400, thus 2000 was a leap year but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not.

[jiminski]

Nope, they do not.

A leap year occurs whenever the year is divisible by 4 UNLESS the year in question is a century year (1800, 1900 etc). In this case it must be divisible by 400, thus 2000 was a leap year but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not.

and they say Romance is dead!

[btownmeggy]

This is a tradition? Never heard of it.