Instead of my usual "Sweetest Day is dumb" speech I give every year, I'll give my reader ummm i mean readers the knowledge on how to point out what is in fact a holiday and what is not.
First one has to realize the British context of the word holiday. As in "on holiday". What we Americans call "vacation". I believe this is the best definition for the point i'm getting at. A holiday is a day you get off and don't have to work or be educated.
Then there are festivals. Days that are intentionally on Sundays are such things. Easter is not a holiday, its a festival. Christmas is a holiday as you get time off on the day. A festival is a day of religious or other significant meaning but you don't get the day off.
Then there are greeting card holidays. Those exist for the sole purpose of selling flowers, candy, and greeting cards. These have nice meanings behind them but are typically only thrown into the mix to boost otherwise low flower sales. Nobody heard of Sweetest Day back in the day. But out of nowhere it came up and its pretty much Valentine's Day 2.
Not that there's anything wrong with showing affection through the giving of gifts. The commercialization of actual holidays and festivals I can even stand. But the fact that they make up bogus ones to increase sales is where I draw the line. Its as the Simpsons episode with "Love Day".
Besides you don't and shouldn't need an excuse for giftgiving. Although I doubt its necessity. In the ancient times nobody celebrated birthdays. Holidays were only during the winter months where nothing could get done anyways. And festivals were for religious purposes.
Caio 'Corpsters
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Survey
Do you eat beans?
Would you eat beans in a car?
Would you consider eating beans on a plane?
What's your craziest bean related dream?
What's the largest number of beans you've eaten at one time?
Have you eaten beans with a celebrity?
Who do you like eating beans with most?
Do you ever eat beans before noon?
Do you ever consider the nutritional benefits of beans or just love their taste?
What's your favorite kind of bean?
What's the last kind of bean that you ate?
Would you eat beans with Mr. Bean?
Do you eat beans at the ball park?
Do you have a ball park made out of beans?
When was the last time you ate beans?
Are you eating beans right now?
Do you prefer raw or cooked beans?
Do you prefer dry or canned beans?
What's your earliest memory of eating beans?
Do you wish your car was made of or ran on beans?
What's your wildest bean-related fantasy?
Do you make friends based on how they like their beans?
Do you like refried beans?
What do you think of when you hear "Pinto"?
What's the first thing you think of when you hear "Kidney"?
Do you think Jelly Beans are an insult to the good name of beans?
Who would you most like to eat beans with?
If you could only eat one kind of bean for the ret of your life what would it be?
Do you date only on the basis of how many beans they enjoy?
Do you like beans with sauces or just as is?
Have you ever grown your own beans?
Would you like to grow your own beans?
Are you slightly curious about how to grow your own beans?
Have you ever been to "Bean Town"?
If so, were you disappointed that you couldn't eat the buildings there?
Did you complain that you couldn't eat the buildings?
How big is the largest monument you built dedicated to your love of beans?
Are you daydreaming about beans nows?
How about now?
Do you like bean soup?
Do you like bean paste?
Do you like soy beans?
If you couldn't eat any meat would you not be affected because you love beans so much?
If you love beans so much, why don't you marry them?
Are you angry that you legally can't marry beans?
Do you talk to your beans?
Do they talk back?
Do you lie awake at night trying to figure out the secret recipe for Bush's Baked Beans?
Do you prefer your beans baked, fried, barbecued, boiled, or raw?
Will you repost this beanerific survey for all to enjoy? If you don't repost this within 10 microseconds Beanzilla will come and smite you. Eventually. Seriously he might. Be scared.
Yeah I'm sick of surveys too.
Would you eat beans in a car?
Would you consider eating beans on a plane?
What's your craziest bean related dream?
What's the largest number of beans you've eaten at one time?
Have you eaten beans with a celebrity?
Who do you like eating beans with most?
Do you ever eat beans before noon?
Do you ever consider the nutritional benefits of beans or just love their taste?
What's your favorite kind of bean?
What's the last kind of bean that you ate?
Would you eat beans with Mr. Bean?
Do you eat beans at the ball park?
Do you have a ball park made out of beans?
When was the last time you ate beans?
Are you eating beans right now?
Do you prefer raw or cooked beans?
Do you prefer dry or canned beans?
What's your earliest memory of eating beans?
Do you wish your car was made of or ran on beans?
What's your wildest bean-related fantasy?
Do you make friends based on how they like their beans?
Do you like refried beans?
What do you think of when you hear "Pinto"?
What's the first thing you think of when you hear "Kidney"?
Do you think Jelly Beans are an insult to the good name of beans?
Who would you most like to eat beans with?
If you could only eat one kind of bean for the ret of your life what would it be?
Do you date only on the basis of how many beans they enjoy?
Do you like beans with sauces or just as is?
Have you ever grown your own beans?
Would you like to grow your own beans?
Are you slightly curious about how to grow your own beans?
Have you ever been to "Bean Town"?
If so, were you disappointed that you couldn't eat the buildings there?
Did you complain that you couldn't eat the buildings?
How big is the largest monument you built dedicated to your love of beans?
Are you daydreaming about beans nows?
How about now?
Do you like bean soup?
Do you like bean paste?
Do you like soy beans?
If you couldn't eat any meat would you not be affected because you love beans so much?
If you love beans so much, why don't you marry them?
Are you angry that you legally can't marry beans?
Do you talk to your beans?
Do they talk back?
Do you lie awake at night trying to figure out the secret recipe for Bush's Baked Beans?
Do you prefer your beans baked, fried, barbecued, boiled, or raw?
Will you repost this beanerific survey for all to enjoy? If you don't repost this within 10 microseconds Beanzilla will come and smite you. Eventually. Seriously he might. Be scared.
Yeah I'm sick of surveys too.
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