On Birth Dates

I was walking toward the sink in the men's room just now when it occurred to me: the best birth date of the last 100 years is probably November 23, 1958. An excerpt of an article from The New York Times for that date:

"It's an old saying, phrased a dozen different ways, that November makes April and May. Like so many pithy comments, this one originated close to the land, where man is most aware of natural cause and effect. The countryman is not always a philosopher, and when he is his philosophy is not always profound; but he usually thinks beyond today's sunset, and he has at hand the materials for valid conclusions."

Quite true, quite true.