It must be a triple leap year. (from CollegeHumor)
I had to share this with Rachel because February 30th has become a running joke between us. Due to some cunning planning on my part, our first date was on August 30th. It follows that our 6-monther would be on February 30th. Realization of this fact went down the “we’ll have to do something on the 30th… wait… what? Oh it’s February!” path.
Not to be outdone, she tracked down the website of the calendar provider, which also provides some grumpy response emails, with the following being my favorite:
“…yet another in a long line of crimes against humanity perpetuated by you pinko tree huggers.”
But it occurred to me that this could be a business opportunity. Sell intentionally, subtly inaccurate calendars as gag gifts. Add a day, remove a day, start a month on the wrong day, shift some holidays. And with that add dual-layer packaging. The first layer, to be removed by the gift-buyer, clearly identifies the content. The second layer makes it seems like a run-of-the-mill calendar.
I think it would be funny to see how long your friends take to notice the problem, if they notice the problem, or if they don’t notice at all and spend half the year being very confused… maybe bonus points should be added for selling with it a CD that will alter the calendar in Outlook to match the wall calendar.
Incorporate your onrebate issue with this and I think you have a suicide in a package waiting to go!!