What could be more rare and special than a day that comes but once every four years; a day that blips in and out of existence like exotic quantum particles in the Large Hadron Collider?
We at the Manhattan Project are apt to celebrate things that are rare and strange, things as rare and strange as when on Leap Day the reigning Punxsutawney Phil is sacrificed to the Leap Gods to ensure four more years of good television.
The people of Western PA have their traditions, and we have ours. Less bloody, but just as terrifying, we at the Manhattan Project make the following offerings to the Leap Gods!
Three new plays that promise to be AWESOME and TERRIBLE:
Please join us Tonight at 8:00pm at Mahall's 20 Lanes
13200 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 for this quadrennial spectacle!
The Origins of Leap Day from Manhattan Project Leap Day Historian, Les Hunter:
Leap Day celebrates the pagan festival of hlupe (archaic: Anglico Absurdium Latinslaximus), a holiday wherein men would compete in various games of leaping (the long leap, the really, really big leap and leap of faith) as a way to show off to ladies and also is considered to figure into the religious rites of pre-Christian peoples--as a truly big leap would surely land a good man on the sun, or better yet, on the moon--and would thereby make him Very High Up, Indeed. The term "long-legged" supposedly is derived from this ancient tradition.
We all know that on Leap Day women propose to men and that you can murder someone without it being a crime, but did you know these fun Leap Day facts?