MAYDAY!

Its MAY FIRST! Time to gather your family and friends around and have a BAR-BQ.. and dance around the May Poll.

Wish you were all here to have around me to eat hamburgers and hotdogs and BBQ Chicken and coleslaw, and potato salad, and chips and dips and play frisbee, and tug of war and all that fine MAY Day stuff. Plenty of beer and soda around and punch for everyone..

How I love MAY FISRT! MAY DAY! WOOT!

For what reasons is the first of May celebrated?

Here in Oxford, the tradition is to go stand on a bridge and watch Morris men/choirs etc. at 6am in the morning. If you don't, then the f**king church bells will wake you up anyway

Here are a couple sites you can read more about MAY DAY.

http://www.chiff.com/home_life/holiday/May-Day.htm

Then the more pagan nature of the day

http://www.ladybridget.com/r/mayi002.html

The First link give alot of history and info.. *UPDATE: After reading the first link more, it has a christian spin on the whole thing. Enjoy!

And Again HAPPY MAYDAY!

it's all about getting the girlies to dance around your big fertile maypole. i should know, i've watched the wickerman a few times.

fishy said:
it's all about getting the girlies to dance around your big fertile maypole.

In that case, it's time to celebrate.

<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">May the coming of Spring renew our faith, hope and dreams,</DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> May the rain fall softly on the fields and renew the land,</DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">May the wind be always at our backs.</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=left>This is an old Scottish/Irish Prayer.</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=left>MayDay was also called,</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=left>[size=13]"Th' Gatherin'" Ancient Festival O' Beltane [/size]</DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=left>http://www.dobhran.com/greetings/GRbeltaine.htm</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=left>http://www.sacredbrigantia.com/</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=left>http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20010423/beltane.shtml</DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=left>Some links to help educate you.. =)</DIV>
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I bring flowers to my neighbor every year and ring the doorbell and then run so that there are flowers on their doorstep when they get there....but they do not know who from. (They know its me but it is till fun.)

Being that close to the border, I bet theCinco de Mayo preparations are driving you nuts :biggrin:

In fact, so many Mexican migrant workers have moved to Jonesboro, that we now have some items for the holiday in our stores :smile:

Orpheus said:
Being that close to the border, I bet theCinco de Mayo preparations are driving you nuts :biggrin:

In fact, so many Mexican migrant workers have moved to Jonesboro, that we now have some items for the holiday in our stores :smile:

Cinco De What? Just kidding oh yeah its a big deal here. I just run around with a bull horn screaming REMEMBER THE ALAMO.. or LA-MIGRA! Its lots of fun.. Just have a armor vest on you should be safe. I know it was the Spanish Vctory over them damn Canadians.. err I mean French they are celebrating.. =)

What state is that in? It does not surprize me a bit there is some 40 million hispanics in the US. Its so bad here that you are required to speak spanish to get a job at McDonalds. Thats no joke.. and guess what I dont speak any spanish.. maybe thats why I have yet to find work here.. could be.

IMO they ought to do something about the language issue. It seems pretty dumb to me that the government makes so many accommodations for non-English speakers (public school classes taught in Spanish etc.). By not forcing the immigrant population to learn English, we are only hampering their cultural and economic integration. I have no problem with immigration, I just feel that it cripples the Hispanic population in general to be so PC about "respecting" their culture.

A prime example is the American Indians. They never integrated into the rest of society because of the reservation system, and as a result they have fared miserably as a socio-economic group.

Where I live they force my kids to take spanish, I dont agree with that at all. And Tracer I see your point and agree. But see here is the problem, its not the Hispanics that come over here the legal way, heck they go though classes to become American citizens, and one of them is English. Its the ones that sneak over that are the problem, they refuse to enter here the right way, and they refuse to learn english, and then they have a baby here, and rape the system. Did you know that over 2.1 billion dollars leaves the USA every year. Money made by immergrant workers and sent back to Mexico to support familys back there, as well as help them get the money needed to get themacross the boarder as well. Something has to be done.. I have no problems with any person seeking a better way of life, I just want them to do it the right way.

Aww... Its no fun when there is too much agreement. Maybe I should have phrased it differently:

Lets put all the damn wetbacks into concentration camps until they can pass an english grammar test!

SNICKER.. :eek:

I thought you said its no fun when there is too much agreement.. So to be different, I think we should just shoot them as they cross and call them Terrorist.

may first.. only special thing about it here,

is that like 20000 people are screaming in front of the.. how you call that..

like the.. the "Dutch White House" :smile:

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting MadMan</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>may first.. only special thing about it here,

is that like 20000 people are screaming in front of the.. how you call that..

like the.. the "Dutch White House" :smile:

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Dang :eek: they must dig up the dead to have that many people all in the same place.

/runs

I'm assuming you hail from "The NetherRegions"? I used to have a couple clan mates from The Netherlands and it was so much fun to pick on the smallness of the area. Well blushes it was fun for me :wink:

Geez you all are a bunch of morons. Its May and you've forgotten the most important thing that has happened. Last night on May 1st the new season of Family Guy started.

Spartan said:
Geez you all are a bunch of morons. Its May and you've forgotten the most important thing that has happened. Last night on May 1st the new season of Family Guy started.

Thanx to you, I almost lost an entire mouthful of coffee. Only my shear force of will prevented a near disaster. Next time, post a WARNING: before so i can swallow.

lets dance indeedhttp://www.abstrakt.be/mayday/home.htm

MadMan said:
may first.. only special thing about it here,

is that like 20000 people are screaming in front of the.. how you call that..

like the.. the "Dutch White House" :smile:

Dang :eek: they must dig up the dead to have that many people all in the same place.

/runs

I'm assuming you hail from "The NetherRegions"? I used to have a
couple clan mates from The Netherlands and it was so much fun to pick
on the smallness of the area. Well blushes it was fun for me :wink:

What is wrong wiht small? 250x250 km isnt small for 16 million people! Its big enough!