McGruff said:Shouldn't it be doubletime for a holiday?
Is this memorial day some american thing? Cos we sure don't have it in rainy old blighty. Is it an excuse to eat and drink excessive amounts, and possibly wake up with someone I have never seen before with no memory of the night before?Ptarmigan said:What are you doing for Memorial Day? I plan to take it easy. It is suppose to be stormy this weekend. We need rain right now.
Happy Camper said:Is this memorial day some american thing? Cos we sure don't have it in rainy old blighty. Is it an excuse to eat and drink excessive amounts, and possibly wake up with someone I have never seen before with no memory of the night before?
McGruff said:Good point. Whatever each of us is doing, we should take a moment to remember what it's really all about.
Ptarmigan said:What are you doing for Memorial Day?
Nevermind. Maybe I should start celebrating thanksgiving. That looks like a good excuse for a party.ChrisReid said:No, it's not that sort of holiday at all. Those holidays are really dumb. You have it backwards. You're supposed to go to the cemetary and stuff on Memorial Day. Memorial Day is the last day of the year you should be drinking and partying.
That's precicely what I want to know.C.Blair said:Hi!
What is Memorial Day?
Happy Camper said:That's precicely what I want to know.
Happy Camper said:Nevermind. Maybe I should start celebrating thanksgiving. That looks like a good excuse for a party.
I see, so really it would be rather disrespectful to throw a party on memorial day. Well, thanks for clearing that up for me. We have a few of those days in Britain, except their names escapes me at the moment - probably because they aren't national holidays, but there we go. I think it's important that we remeber all the sacrifices people made for the sake of our freedom.McGruff said:It's a day in the U.S. set aside to remember the sacrifices of the military personnel who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. It is a national holiday, and most businesses give their employees a paid day off. Unfortunately, in recent years it has become an excuse to throw a barbeque and party, which I have been guilty of myself..