On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:11:57 -0400, Dread Pirate kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
of the alt.fan.british-accent Seas, yo-ho-hoed:
>On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:47:42 -0500, Alan Brand
><alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:06:42 GMT, Stuart Rogers
>><stuart.rogers.clara.co.uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>On 25/4/07 07:19, "kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" wrote:
>>>> Coincidentally, today is ANZAC Day.
>>>
>>>So it is.
>>
>>It's a busy time of the year ... Dirt Day, Georgie-****gie Day, then
>>Antipodes Day.
>We have so many "days" on our calendars now- I haven't even heard of
>some of them. Our income tax returns are due every year on April
>15th. This year April 15th fell on a Sunday, which gave us an extra
>day- but then April 16th was a holiday, which gave us til the 17th.
>You know what "holiday" the 16th was? "Tax Day". Our accountant had
>never even heard of it. Nobody I know had the day off from work. In
>some states it was "Patriot's Day' which isn't celebrated here, mostly
>in New England. We are one of the few states that have a "Confederate
>Memorial Day" plus a regular Memorial Day. No one but banks, schools,
>post offices and gov't offices have them as a day off.
I found this site that lists all kinds of obscure, bizarre little
"holidays"
that maybe only three people and their brothers bother observing, with
multiple
"holidays" for the exact same date in some instances. For example, the
26th was
"Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day," "Richter Scale Day" *and* "Hug an
Australian Day," while the 27th, in addition to Arbor Day, was "National
Hairball Awareness Day" and "Mantanzas Mule Day."
--
"One does wonder why God went to the trouble of making Man
rational, since there's evidently no bloody use for reason
whatsoever."
- Alan Hope, in a religious discussion in misc.writing
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