From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , TJ wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> There's a song from Spike Jones (sung by George Rock and The City   
   >> Slickers probably around 1955) titled "My Birthday Comes On   
   >> Christmas" which described some of the major disadvantages of that   
   >> coincidence. I've a nephew who was close (born December 30th), so   
   >> are aware of the problem close-up.   
      
   >I've seen it, too. My mother's birthday was on Christmas Eve. She   
   >didn't seem to mind the combination gifts so much. What bothered her   
   >was that for a while there she rarely got anything that could be   
   >considered a "summertime" gift.   
      
   The problem for this nephew was exacerbated by the fact that his three   
   brothers had their birthdays right around the end of June.  My sister   
   "solved" the problem by celebrating his "and-a-half" birthday and   
   dropped his birthday down to a "card" event.  Extended family felt it   
   was a good solution, and went along with it.  It reverted to "normal"   
   when he moved out to join the service just after his 17 1/2th.   
      
   >Her father was born on Christmas Day. And he passed away very early   
   >one Good Friday morning. The coincidence was not lost upon the   
   >minister of our church, either.   
      
   My father and my second brother-in-law more or less reversed that.   
   Dad was born on Easter, and died 4 days after Christmas, while Bob   
   was born a week after Easter, and died Christmas morning.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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