Is it a bank holiday in the US today?

I hope not cos my mail server's gone ... ups

[musicales]

If someone could let me know it there's a bank holiday today or not I'd be most grateful - If there is, all my mail will be bouncing till Tuesday - ouch!

[weblamer2]

I dont think so.

My little wall calander sez MAY DAY BANK HOLIDAY (UK), so our banks are still cranking away.

What is may day, anyways?

[curlykarl]

"What is may day, anyways?"

Its when us camp Brits ponce around a May Pole, dressed in bizarre cloths.

I'm going back out to dance round mine when it stops raining :)

Karl

[stevedob]

Its when us camp Brits ponce around a May Pole, dressed in bizarre cloths.

As opposed to the other 364 days of the year "when us camp Brits ponce around, dressed in bizarre cloths"

I'm a Brit, so I'm allowed to say this :)

As to what it means, do you want the let's-celebrate-the-spring-planting explanation, or the let's-celebrate-the-working-class-heroes explanation?

[curlykarl]

I thought it was a Pagan festival?

Bring out the Morris Dancers.........:)

Karl

[musicales]

I saw a great spring celebration in germany on TV the other day - they build a wopping great wheel, stuff it full of hay, set fire to it, and role it down a hill - not sure what it's got to do with spring but it looked damn good.

(By the way, tech help has answered the phone - so the answer is 'No' to my original question - currently rebooting the server - that's a kind of new fangled may day tradition I guess (-; )

[edited by: musicales at 3:01 pm (utc) on May 2, 2003]

[ncsuk]

May Day apparantly is workers day according to some random drunk bloke I spoke to last night.

I think it is meant or was started by the trade unions as some kind of get youre own back on youre boss day or something although now its just an excuse for thugs to take the day off and break stuff.

[curlykarl]

I found this :)

Beltane

Celebrated on May 1. Beltane (also spelled Beltine, Beltain, Beal-tine, Beltan, Bel-tien, and Beltein) means "bright fire" and in the past two fires were lit by Druids in honour of Bel. Later it came to be associated with May Day (Calan Mai)

and this :) :)

Another custom associated with the first day of May was the wide spread custom of couples to go off together into the woods on the May eve "there to make merrie sport"..

:)

My kind of celebration :)

[ncsuk]

I just board up my windows it's much safer..!

[curlykarl]

95, 98 or XP?

:)

[weblamer2]

trade unions? pagans?

I dunno. im looking at the news and i keep seeing communist all over the world celibrating may day.

[ncsuk]

Exactly workers day like I said.

[ncsuk]

7 pc's at home carl, think i have them all covered lol including 2 diff verions of linux

[curlykarl]

LOL :)