The 2,000,000th post game

Originally posted by riv6672
In the repertoire of Renaissance cartographers, fierce mythical beasts—from sea serpents to manticores—represented dangers of unknown worlds. Rather than “here be dragons,” one early terrestrial map of the Arctic warned that hic sunt ursi albi—here are white bears. Rarely seen and poorly understood, the pale predators signified the Arctic’s challenges to the world. As men ventured into the Arctic, they returned home with stories of this mysterious creature. Bolstered by the invention of the letterpress, interpretations of the white bear began to appear in print. Painstakingly compiled from hearsay, travelogues, and existing charts, these first images often contained substantial errors, which were then copied. Mapmakers sometimes let their imagination run rampant. Abhorring a vacuum and trying to boost sales, they populated empty spaces on their sheets with creatures that were part fancy, part sailors’ yarns. In an early version of the party game telephone, mistakes were compounded with exaggerations ever more outlandish.

Jack Haley was in NEW YORK, NEW YORK with Robert De Niro, who was in SLEEPERS with Kevin Bacon.

Dad: Hey son, have you heard that joke with the deaf guy and a dumbass?

Son: No, what is it?

Dad: I'm sorry, what?

Son: What's the joke?

Dad: I can't hear you.

Son: I hate you.

OUR NEXT LEAP YEAR WILL BE ON

Here you go, a whole new bottle of Mr. Bubble.

I also put a six pack of beer in the toilet.

You won’t have to leave the tub for anything but the smoke alarm going off.

Speaking of going, I’m off to work!

Heh, see what I did there? Going. Off. Going off.

Later!

And

Before Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superman's birthday was February 29 (as in, the date on Earth when he was born on Krypton). He celebrates the day the Kents found him separately, as Clark Kent's birthday.
In The Golden Age of Comic Books, Billy Batson choose February 29 as Captain Marvel's birthday, despite not being his real birth date.

In Whit by Iain Banks, the Luskentyrian cult consider those born on the 29th of February to be sacred, so they have an orgy nine months before that date.
In the appendix of The Lord of the Rings, the Shire celebrates an extra day named Overlithe, which occurs once every 4 years in the middle of summer (around mid-June).
In the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons, there is a day called Shieldmeet, which occurs only once every four years on the day after Midsummer, making it an in-universe leap day.

In The Pirates of Penzance, the Pirate King and Ruth inform Frederick that he is bound to serve them, not until his twenty-first year, but until his twenty-first birthday.

“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 21 years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you're only 5 and a little bit over!”

The cartoon “Milo Murphy's Law” has Leap Days be the result of time travelers Balthazar Cavendish and Vinnie Dakota accidentally going back to ancient Rome with a time grenade capable of wiping a day off the face of the calendar, and the "once every four years" thing was caused by the time grenade being one-quarter disarmed!

When Julius Caesar had the calendar reformed, the year 46 BC was made 445 days long to get up to date (as Pontifex Maximus he was supposed to make yearly fixes in the old Roman Calendar but he was at war or crisis for years, he took the opportunity of calendar reform to get it back on track), making it the longest year in history.