Originally Posted by hellsteed:
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Legat de 29 februarie...
"Today is a special time in the calendar - it's leap year day, when girlfriends propose to their boyfriends, when 29 February babies get to celebrate their actual birthday and when hamburgers eat people. OK, maybe not the last one."
"Be warned, Queen Margaret declared in Scotland back in 1288 that on 29 February a woman had the right to propose to any man she liked the look of. Naturally this sent many men running for the nearest hiding place, not necessarily for fear of being proposed to, but to avoid the penalty for saying no. Men who rebuffed the offer of marriage were hit with a fine in the form of a kiss, a silk dress, or a pair of gloves, to be given to the rebuffed proposer'
Nice idea for a modern short story
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eu sunt nascuta pe 29 febr
