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Re: The Queen's Birthdays
Faux Pas, on host 38.164.171.7
Thursday, May 31, 2001, at 06:56:37
Re: The Queen's Birthdays posted by eric sleator on Wednesday, May 30, 2001, at 15:09:24:
> > Could you explain why there are official and
> > unofficial birthdays?
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> My guess is that it's for the same reason we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday on a Monday every year: three-day weekend.
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> -eric sleator
> Wed 30 May A.D. 2001
It sounds similar to the whole "President's Day" thing. We Americans used to celebrate two federal holidays in February: Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday. Sometime in the late 70s or early 80s, those two days were no longer federal holidays and "President's Day" was created.
This was keeping in line with the government's desire to keep its citizens from having any free time.
-Faux "eight stinkin' days a year" Pas
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