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My Mother
I woke up one morning, and said to my mother, "Happy birthday mother!"
She chuckled and laughed and replied, "No son, today is too early, and tomorrow is too late." I smiled because I knew exactly what she meant.
How is this possible?
She chuckled and laughed and replied, "No son, today is too early, and tomorrow is too late." I smiled because I knew exactly what she meant.
How is this possible?
Answer
My mom was born on February 29. If it isn't a leap year, Feb. 28th is too early and the next day, March 1st, is too late.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Good one! Your poor Mum. Do you give her 4 presents?
Mar 08, 2003
i like this one - g*job
Thanks for a good one. Cool.
Fun! I was thinking that she was born at midnight exactly, but that's a much better answer.
Mar 10, 2003
Good one
I thought that maybe she was born in a parallel universe where the day she was born doesn't exist in our plane.
What would really happen if you were born on Feb. 29? Would you still celebrate your birthday every year?
I thought it had something to do with the time of the day.
i thought the answer was yesterday i liked the answer
........nice.......
ummmmmm if you are born on a leap year then your birthday is transferred over to Febuary 28th so then this teaser is actully wrong in a sense but it's still good. ( I never thought of it so codose to you)
you spelt to wrong so it kind of threw me off a bit but g-job.
Was this true?
i had them talking at close to midnight, so when he says "happy birthday" at 11:59 it was too early, but when she replies at 120, tomorrow (which would actually the day after) would be too late.
like your answer though!
like your answer though!
wow i knew it. she actually has a quarter of a birthday each year but thats too difficult so we have to let it add up and give it to her the 4th year.
I knew it, and I thought it's pretty ironic that I saw this teaser Feb 28!!!
I thought they were going on a trip and were going to cross the IDL (international date line). If you fly a certain way, you can acctualyl skip a day.
Got me, I thought this was really clever. Good job.
I got it right
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