If I was born on leap day, would I be 40 or 10 tomorrow?

[Bruce Wayne]

Warning, that's a trip question.

[Brother Buzz]

1. You'd be forty despite only celebrating ten birthdays?

Wait, this is a trick question. Like jack Benny, you'd be 39? I got nothing.

[Bruce Wayne]

2. You came the closest of all the contestants

I'll be 36, but only after having had 9 birthdays. I didn't say it was a clever trick question.

[Brother Buzz]

3. I just realized today was my grandfather's birthday

28 Feb of a NON leap-year. He would have been 126 years old.

[DFW]

4. 'Tis written: "You're as old as you feel."

In this extreme case, I'd say it's "take yer pick."

[csziggy]

5. One of my ancestors was born on leap day

The genealogy program I was using wouldn't accept his birth date. I think he'd be about 80 years old now if he only counted the years with leap days.

[pokerfan]

6. straightdope.com

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1216/when-do-leap-day-babies-celebrate-their-birthdays

[Bruce Wayne]

8. I find that offensive...

both as a heterosexual and as an idiot.

[Lil Missy]

7. Yes.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. Bruce Wayne's birthday isn't leap day. That is Superman's birthday.

But oddly, it isn't Clark's birthday.

[Bruce Wayne]

10. I said "if"

<== me at age 8

[Liberal Veteran]

11. I was just throwing out a random fact for my geek cred.

I've never really thought about it all that much.

[REP]

12. The plot device of "The Pirates of Penzance"

You haz it.

When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold Lyrics  


Ruth: When you had left our pirate fold,
We tried to raise our spirits faint,
According to our customs old,
With quips and quibbles quaint.
But all in vain the quips we heard,
We laid and sobbed upon the rocks,
Until to somebody occurred
A startling paradox.
Frederic: A paradox?
Ruth: A paradox,
A most ingenious paradox!
We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
But none to beat this paradox!

All: A paradox, a paradox,
A most ingenious paradox.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
This paradox.

King: We knew your taste for curious quips,
For cranks and contradictions queer;
And with the laughter on our lips,
We wished you there to hear.
We said, "If we could tell it him,
How Frederic would the joke enjoy!"
And so we’ve risked both life and limb
To tell it to our boy.
Frederic: A paradox?
King: A paradox,
This most ingenious paradox!
We’ve quips and quibbles heard in flocks,
But none to beat this paradox!

All: A paradox, a paradox,
A most ingenious paradox.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
This paradox.

King(chanting):
For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I’ve no desire to be disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don’t know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February,
twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty,
One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty.
Through some singular coincidence – I shouldn’t be surprised if it were owing to the agency of an ill-natured fairy –
You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the twenty-ninth of February;
And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you’ll easily discover,
That though you’ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays,
you’re only five,
and a little bit over!

Ruth & King: Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Ho! ho! ho! ho!

Frederic: Dear me! Let’s see! Yes, yes; With yours my figures do agree!

Ruth & King:
Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Frederic:
How quaint the ways of Paradox!
At common sense she gaily mocks!
Though counting in the usual way,
Is twenty-one I’ve been alive.
Yet, reckoning by my natal day,
Yet, reckoning by my natal day,
I am a little boy of five!

Ruth & King:
He is a little boy of five!

All:
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
A paradox, a paradox,
A most ingenious paradox.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
A paradox.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
A curious paradox,
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
A most ingenious paradox!