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Re: new millenium bugs me
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:08:49 GMT
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Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@superonline.com[AvoidSpam]>
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
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> Similarly, people whose birthday falls on Christmas sometimes choose
> another nominal birthday.
Why?..
Selçuk
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) So that the celebration of the aniversary of their birthday doesn't get lost in the shuffle surrounding the celebration of the aniversary of the nominal birthday of a certain individual who was born some 2000 years ago. A more pragmatic reason (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Thanks for the reminder that 70% of the world is non-Christian. Sometimes it's easy to forget. ;) Happy Ramadan coming up, Selçuk. best, Lindsay --- Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr) Department of History Rutgers, the State University of New (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| This thread is a pedant's dream. Somebody pinch me. (...) not sure what an nbirthday is... I agree that most folks only have one birthday, and ALL folks only have one "actual" birthday. However, there exists a class of people that have more than one (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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