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#1417 12/12/00 03:10 PM
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Mav said, suggestively: So presumably the tourist marketing department has already run through the variants of "Come to Hawaii and get lei'd"

Could be. In Russia under the Soviet regime, May 1 was Labour Day. Somehow seems appropriate in the context.



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Yes, i knew that-- when i was being a disagreeable child, my mother would remind me that the first thing i did wrong was to get born a godless-communist holiday! it was all down hill from there!

Any attempts to counter that she had more say in my birthday than i did, were not tolerated!

well, maybe next time i head so far west as to end up in the east, i'll stop in hawaii. I've been to japan, and would like to go again, but next time, i want to continue on to the great down under... --well there's a plan get down and get lei'd -- that would be a memorable vacation...


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> --well there's a plan get down and get lei'd -- that would be a memorable vacation...

That's what fronds are for!



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Wasn't there was an effort to make May 1st "Law Day" as I recall it was during Cold War times and was a sorta' anti-communist ploy. Never had much success.
As to Lei Day ... even marketing wallahs occasionally have a good idea!
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the catholic church made it the "feast day of st. joseph the working man" so that catholics could have parties of there own-- that happened sometime in the mid 50's-- other wise i would have ended up as josephine-- and since i dislike names for women that are really men's names-- words too, Actor's all--no more actress's and aviator-- forget aviatrix, it's just as well.
but try as i might, i can't force the end to such sexist words! some have even shown up on this board!
St. Helena feast day is some time in the first week of may-- 4th or 5th i think...
(but it took my parents long enough to agree even on that-- my birth certificate notes that my first name was entered into the record on June 6th!--goodness knows what they called me for the first few days!)


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Does anybody see the same thing in their neck of the woods...here, women will often try to plan their pregnancies so that they will have the baby in the summer or autumn so as not to be pregnant in the wintertime.

Our winters can get somewhat brutal so you can surely imagined why a woman would not want to be pregnant at that time. You are bloated, with feet that are so big your boots don't fit (and you can't bend down to tie them anyway) and no coats are large enough to cover your belly.


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Wow sayeth: Wasn't there was an effort to make May 1st "Law Day" as I recall it was during Cold War times and was a sorta' anti-communist ploy. Never had much success.

Would that (taking the sum of this thread together) make it the Day the Law was Lei'd Down?



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From bel:
In reply to:

Does anybody see the same thing in their neck of the woods...here, women will often try to plan their pregnancies so that they will have the baby in the summer or autumn so as not to be pregnant in the wintertime.

Our winters can get somewhat brutal so you can surely imagined why a woman would not want to be pregnant at that time. You are bloated, with feet that are so big your boots don't fit (and you can't bend down to tie them anyway) and no coats are large enough to cover your belly.


Too much information, too much information!



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too much information!

Don't agree - it conjured up a lovely image


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Wow sayeth: Wasn't there was an effort to make May 1st "Law Day" as I recall it was during Cold War times and was a sorta' anti-communist ploy. Never had much success.
Would that (taking the sum of this thread together) make it the Day the Law was Lei'd Down?

Grooooooaaaaannnnnn



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