Posted by Eugene Volokh:
"You Don't Need to Be a Weatherman to Know How Long the Month Is":
[1]OpinionJournal's Best of the Web reports:
[2]The Associated Press reports that "the snowy weather has taken a
bit of a toll" on Connecticut's two casinos:
Officials with Foxwoods Resort Casino said that the casino cleared
$67 million from its slot machine customers in February while
Mohegan Sun cleared $68 million.
The slot revenues at both were down compared with last year.
In February 2004, Mohegan Sun reported slot machine revenues of
nearly $69 million while Foxwoods reported revenue of $68.5
million.
That means revenues were down 2.2% at Foxwoods and 1.4% at Mohegan
in February 2005 as compared with February 2004. But given that
February 2005 was 3.4% shorter than February 2004, attributing this
to the weather makes no sense.
Given that I myself was born [3]bissextile myself, I find this
especially amusing.
References
1. http://opinionjournal.com/best
2. http://www.nbc30.com/money/4289624/detail.html
3. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=bissextile
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