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== Theater == |
== Theater == |
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* In ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', the Pirate King and Ruth inform Frederick that he is bound to serve them, not until his twenty-first year, but until his twenty-first ''birthday''. |
* In ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', the Pirate King and Ruth inform Frederick that he is bound to serve them, not until his twenty-first year, but until his twenty-first ''birthday''. |
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{{quote|Through some singular coincidence--I shouldn't be surprised if it were owing to the agency of an ill-natured fairy-- |
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You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the twenty-ninth of Febru''a''ry, |
You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the twenty-ninth of Febru''a''ry, |
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And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you'll easily discover, |
And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you'll easily discover, |
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That though you've lived 21 years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you're only 5 and a little bit over! }} |
That though you've lived 21 years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you're only 5 and a little bit over! }} |
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