It was April the forty-first
Being a quadruple leap year
I was driving in downtown Atlantis
My barracuda was in the shop
So I was in a rented stingray
And it was overheating

So I pulled into a Shell Station
They said I'd blown a seal
I said, "Fix the damn thing
And leave my private life out of it
Okay pal?"

While they were doing that
I walked over to a place called the Oyster Bar, a real dive
But I knew the owner
He used to play for the Dolphins
I said "Hi Gil"
You have to yell, he's hard of herring

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Wet dream

Gil was also down on his luck
Fact is he was barely keeping his head below water
I bellied up to the sandbar
He poured me the usual

Rusty snail, hold the grunion
Shaken not stirred
With a peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich on the side
Heavy on the mako

I slipped him a fin
On porpoise
I was feeling good
I even dropped a sand dollar in the box for Jerry's squids
For the halibut

Well the place was crowded
We were packed in like sardines They were all there to listen to the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsal
What sole

Tommy was rockin' the place with a very popular tuna
Salmon Chanted Evening
And the stage was surrounded by screaming groupers
Probably there to see the bass player

One of them was this cute little yellowtail
And she's giving me the eye
So I figured this is my chance for a little fun
You know, piece of Pisces

But she said things I just couldn't fathom
She was too deep, seemed to be under a lot of pressure
Boy, could she drink
She drank like a . . .
She drank a lot

I said "What's your sign"
She said "Aquarium"
I said "Great, let's get tanked"

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Wet dream

I invited her to my place for a midnight bait
I said "Come on baby, it'll only take a few minnows"
She threw me that same old line
"Not tonight, I gotta haddock"

And she wasn't kidding either
Cause in came the biggest, meanest looking haddock
I'd ever seen come down the pike
He was covered with mussels

He came over to me and said
"Listen, shrimp, don't you come trollin' around here"
What a crab
This guy was steamed
I could see the anchor in his eyes

I turned to him, I said
"A-balone, you're just being shellfish"
Well, I knew it was going to be trouble and so did Gil
'Cause he was already on the phone to the cods

The haddock hits me with a sucker punch
I catch him with a left hook
He eels over
It was a fluke but there he was
Lying on the deck, flat as a mackerel
Kelpless

I said "Forget the cods Gil
This guy's gonna need a sturgeon"
Well, the yellowtail was impressed with the way I landed her boyfriend
She came over to me, she said
"Hey, big boy, you're really a game fish
What's your name"
I said "Marlin"

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Wet dream

Well, from then on we had a whale of a time
I took her to dinner, I took her to dance
I bought her a bouquet of flounders
And then I went home with her
And what did I get for my trouble
A case of the clams

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

Wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

Wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

Yeah, that's true, I'm sure the burden of glutenophobics on our medical system and taxpayer dollars is right up there with hangnails and "it hurts when I do this". Tempest in a teacup. If I'm going to get pissed about something chewing up taxpayer dollars that's related to healthcare for stupid people doing stupid things, it sure isn't going to be gluten. How about, oh, I don't know, smoking. For the years 2009–2012, economic cost due to smoking is estimated to be more than $289 billion a year. This cost includes at least $133 billion in direct medical care for adults and more than $156 billion for lost productivity from premature death estimated from 2005 through 2009**.

Any stats out on the gluten hysteria and burden on health care? I think that cumulative is going to take a long time to show up on the graph, and the fad will likely have died before the next leap year.

(**US Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2014)

So that's everyone in the world except......Iceland. I quite literally live a 30 minute drive from Greenwich but for half the year I'm not in it's timezone.

The astrophysicists need to be able to reliably predict when leap seconds will be needed and then the world switch to a UTC which is on a four week cycle with no leap year bullcrap.

Edit in fact I'd ditch the whole hour minute thing altogether and mark each day as a percantage. That would negate the UTC weirdness and instead of going to work 9-5 you'd go 37.5 - 70.8 or in utc for new york (gmt-4 currently) 20.8 - 54.1

As an American living in Thailand, I've adjusted pretty well to metric units for most things (to the point that I'd prefer them for MOST things).

Celsius has more sensible set points (1 and 100 being freeze and boil of water), but I still prefer to think in Fahrenheit for temperatures. For some reason it is harder for me to overcome the inertia of ~25 years of using Fahrenheit than it was to get used to metric distances.

One other thing I noticed about this video is that you could easily make similar arguments about our system of time being backwards or primitive. For some reason we have days of 24 hours, which are sometimes divided into 12 AM and 12 PM hours. Each hour has an arbitrary 60 minutes. Each minute has 60 seconds. Sometimes we divide seconds into hundredths (1/100) or milliseconds (1/1000). We have 12 months, each containing somewhere between 28 and 31 days. One year has 365.242199 days, so we call it 365 and then add one more on leap years, or occasionally skip a leap year since that fraction isn't a perfect 1/4.

That is all very messy and based on local, non-universal phenomena -- just like all those silly antiquated imperial units. Maybe at some point we'll shift to metric time based on radioactive isotope decay rates or something.

You are correct sir.>> ^Stormsinger:

>> ^fujiJuice:
>> ^Stormsinger:
Yay for youtube...continuing evidence of the dumbing down of America.
I'm absolutely sure that no year ever has an extra leap day. It has one, or none...never an extra.

He never once said it has an extra leap day.

The youtube description did though. Looks like Grimm cleaned it up here...but it's still on youtube in the original form.

>> ^fujiJuice:

>> ^Stormsinger:
Yay for youtube...continuing evidence of the dumbing down of America.
I'm absolutely sure that no year ever has an extra leap day. It has one, or none...never an extra.

He never once said it has an extra leap day.


The youtube description did though. Looks like Grimm cleaned it up here...but it's still on youtube in the original form.

>> ^Stormsinger:

Yay for youtube...continuing evidence of the dumbing down of America.
I'm absolutely sure that no year ever has an extra leap day. It has one, or none...never an extra.


He never once said it has an extra leap day.

Your video, What is a Leap Year?, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I don't know for certain, but I think this is a result of people replacing 'er' and 'uh' and such with 'like'. It tends to get used in the same places, at natural pauses. It sounds worse perhaps because 'like' is a word, so listeners expect it to mean something when its used, whereas nonverbal pausing just sounds like a pause.

>> ^ulysses1904:

I can't stand the overuse of the word "like" either, it drives me nuts. There was a time when you had to be a serious stoner to speak with such a lack of articulation and confidence. Now I hear many adults using it almost as a punctuation mark in every sentence. Not just to indicate that somebody said something "they were like, okay" but as a preface to any noun or adjective, "we had to wait like, 5 minutes". "I'm going over there like, Thursday". "I think she was like, middle-eastern or something". "I just bought like, a Chevy Cobalt". New hires show up at our company with their 4-year degrees, talking like the teens at the mall.

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by jonny.

Sorry @Krupo, but *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Girl-doesnt-Understand-Leap-Year

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by Barseps. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

>> ^probie:

Like, I can't stand it when, like, people interject, like, the word "like" like every other sentence.
13 times. I counted, like.


I truly wish I could Upvote your comment more.

>> ^Bhruic:

If this was trying to be funny, it failed. And if not, I've never understood how people can say stuff like "I don't understand why X", when they are fucking connected to the internet. Look it up. Wikipedia has a nice article on how exactly the days in each month came to be the way they are.


Indeed. There was a highly instructive video on the topic on this very site.

Come to the sift, child, we will enlighten ye.

Like whatever do you mean?>> ^probie:

Like, I can't stand it when, like, people interject, like, the word "like" like every other sentence.
13 times. I counted, like.