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Of several things we used to depend on was Al Capp’s “Sadie Hawkins Day,” a takeoff from the Leap Year tradition (though Al held his annually each November) in which women proposed to men and Daisy Mae and Marryin’ Sam kept trying to capture Li’l Abner. Even Walt Kelly had the little bats comparing the Leap Year tradition to presidential elections, calling them like women chasing men a “popular sport.” But the fun Al had with his version of Leap Year has passed, and presidential elections are no longer the fun Walt had with them let alone being a popular sport since there is nothing sporting about them. But the traditions of romance allied to Leap Year reminds me of having once owned a 1985 Maserati Bi-turbo, and I learned from experience why some wag said it was the car you wanted your ex-wife to have in the divorce settlement. Among several pronounced problems with these machines was the wiring, which some owners such as me believed was...
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