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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 28 Mar 2008 16:32:27
Message: <47ed63eb$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> and 21 days after I got 13 years old, Timo got 14 years old :p.
> 
> You'll never catch up at that rate ;)

Nope, I won't.

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 29 Mar 2008 18:48:17
Message: <47eed541$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:37:59 +0200, Nekar Xenos wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:47ebd990$1@news.povray.org...
>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:33:26 +0200, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>>
>>> Heh-heh. I know at least 5 other people whose birthdays are with 2
>>> days of mine :o)
>>
>> Heh, my older brother, my dad, and my stepson are the 3rd, 4th, and 6th
>> of September.  I'm the 10th.  I had a boss whose daughter was the 9th.
>>
>> Busy month for birthdays, September.....
>>
> And I thought it was just a southern hemisphere thing...

I'd have thought in the southern hemisphere, it was offset by 6 months....

Jim


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From: Tim Cook
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 29 Mar 2008 20:25:05
Message: <47eeebf1$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Busy month for birthdays, September.....
>>>
>> And I thought it was just a southern hemisphere thing...
> 
> I'd have thought in the southern hemisphere, it was offset by 6 months....

Why?  January 01 is still the start of the Gregorian calendar in either 
hemisphere.  September minus nine months equals a lot of people finding 
a similar way to ring in the new year...?

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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Hint for the day...
Date: 30 Mar 2008 12:45:21
Message: <47efd1b1$1@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:25:01 -0400, Tim Cook wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> Busy month for birthdays, September.....
>>>>
>>> And I thought it was just a southern hemisphere thing...
>> 
>> I'd have thought in the southern hemisphere, it was offset by 6
>> months....
> 
> Why?  January 01 is still the start of the Gregorian calendar in either
> hemisphere.  September minus nine months equals a lot of people finding
> a similar way to ring in the new year...?

I was thinking more along the lines of temperatures being cooler in the 
northern hemisphere in January and cooler in the southern starting in 
June.  I wasn't even thinking about New Years' eve...

Jim


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