On Apr 29, 12:12 am, Lorrill Buyens <buye...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:11:57 -0400, Dread Pirate
kd***...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Scourge of the alt.fan.british-accentSeas, yo-ho-hoed:
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> >On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:47:42 -0500, Alan Brand
> ><alan.brandATs...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:06:42 GMT, Stuart Rogers
> >><stuart.rogers.clara.co...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>>On 25/4/07 07:19, "kd***...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" wrote:
> >>>> Coincidentally, today is ANZAC Day.
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> >>>So it is.
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> >>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,"
Actually, that's gaining more popularity.
> "Richter Scale Day" *and*
>"Hug an
> Australian Day,"
LOL
> while the 27th, in addition to Arbor Day, was "National
> Hairball Awareness Day"
Oh, c'mon.
KS
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