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 Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:34 pm
sad So few know about May Day...
May Day, traditionally, is a celebration of the end of winter. It started off as a pagan holiday celebrated, in various forms, across Northern Europe and was later "Christianized" like Easter, Halloween, and Christmas were.
Here in the states, and parts of Canada, I believe, it's tradition to make baskets of flowers for your neighbors. You leave the basket on the front step and then play ding-dong-ditch. If they catch you you're supposed to kiss them. I don't know why.
@Erius — I was reading about those trees. I thought it was neat, but it seems a tad... big.
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:39 pm
My family is cheap, antisocial, and lazy. We pretty much only celebrate two holidays a year - Christmas and Thanksgiving.
We really like ham too. I bet if May Day had more ham in it we'd have participated to some extent xp
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 10:25 pm
O.o here in Canada, Labour Day is the first Monday in September. I didn't realise it wasn't that way for everyone. Thanks for enlightening me! @Tsuji: is ding-dong-ditch like nicky-nicky-nine-doors?
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 10:37 pm
I do freelance work for a kids site and they had an event where you gifted baskets to people today... 3nodding
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 10:45 pm
Yay! May Day festivities!
@Kals — I believe so. You ring the doorbell and then run and hide?
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 3:24 am
Oh...um...I posted kinda late... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 5:58 am
I wish I had been able to see that yesterday. I didn't know that May 1st was a holiday. What is done to celebrate it? What type of holiday is it? Like a birthday, or someone did something utterly amazing. A death? A new beggining? Spring friskyness? Oh ya, I would set out a day to celebrate being horny. twisted
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 9:56 am
@Tsuji:
Well, the trees can be big, but usually they are rather thin and look more like the top/crown of a tree, about a story high at most, google fails..and there are only hearts and wreathes here, the olschool people are sparse, and I dont wanna search all around town for one razz .
But, there are of course the huge may trees too, but those are for everyone, not for just one single person.
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