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- Original-From: Ken Wolman <mhwpa!ktw>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:45:51 EST
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- From: ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
- Subject: Re: My Birthday is in April
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "Bernard Chien Perro" at Jan 25, 93 12:36 pm
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- > > Most certainly. But tell me, why April 15? I mean, is it as if some
- > > advertisement appeared in the papers on April 15? I have often thought
- > > about this April 15 business. The other question which has bugged me
- >
- > I don't understand the question. Isn't April 15 as good a birthday as
- > any other date? Natalie figured out from all evidence she could piece
- > together that I was born mid April 1982. Since it's awkward to say "My
- > birthday is mid April," she declared it April 15. Part of the reason for
- > her choice of that date was that it was the birthday of the late Rusty,
- > a dachshund born in the early '50s.
-
- I'd guess Natalie figured your birthday as April 15 because that the
- US's supreme anti-holiday, Tax Day. That way, as she mailed her tax
- return, she could give new meanings to her muttered "This whole damned
- country's going to the dogs."
-
- Ken
-