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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 02:07 pm
Does anyone else have Columbus Day off from work, or am I the only one?
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 02:14 pm
Is this a true/false question? Ok I'll bite, when is Columbus day?
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Bella Dea
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 02:30 pm
next Monday
October 10th
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Bella Dea
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 03:12 pm
Guess I am the only one. Which is kinda nice. I can go anywhere and it will be open.
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Sturgis
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 03:22 pm
I know a few people who do...sad that I won't be able to celebrate in New York City though.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 03:25 pm
here in canada it's thanksgiving,


i have to work


Sad
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 04:59 pm
Columbus Day is a federal holiday--no mail delivery.
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Stray Cat
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 08:07 pm
Also, banks are closed.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 08:08 pm
It's the Thanksgiving long weekend here.

If I'd known in advance how pretty it is around Frankenmuth, I would have stayed in Michigan for the weekend. Maybe hit some sales Cool
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jespah
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 08:25 pm
I've got the day off, but might go into work to kick off a test on the computer (these things take about 6 hours but someone has to be there to type into the command prompt).
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 09:59 pm
Most people not in retail sales or in essential occcupations, e.g. medical, police etc. have Monday off. In the US it's a Federal holiday; in Canada it's Thanksgiving. Major highways will be nightmarish Monday afternoon. I plan to do nothing and go nowhere.
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husker
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 11:27 pm
working

i suppose it's a bank holiday and I don't even know it - frick frack
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snood
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 11:43 pm
The military (and other federal employees) have the day off.
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Chai
 
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Reply Sat 8 Oct, 2005 01:06 pm
Columbus Day has always been one of my favorite holidays.

I grew up at the Shore in N.J. and every Columbus Day the lifeguards would take their boat out, all dressed up like Italian explorers.

Then, they would row onto the beach, and whoever got to be Columbus would get out and plant the American flag. Laughing

YAY!!!!

Christopher Columbus has discovered Belmar NJ!!!!!

Now we can have a boardwalk and play pinball and miniature gold and eat sausage and pepper subs!

YAY YAY YAY!!!!!

http://orig.app.com/webextraspg/041010SSHcolumbus/images/parade03.jpg
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Stray Cat
 
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Reply Sat 8 Oct, 2005 05:05 pm
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sausage and pepper subs!

YAY YAY YAY!!!!!


http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dcalwhit/pics/cats/partycat.jpg
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Amigo
 
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Reply Sat 8 Oct, 2005 06:55 pm
I was going to come in here and write some nasty crap I know about Columbus. But I can't do it. I'd feel like an as**ole.
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snood
 
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Reply Sat 8 Oct, 2005 10:24 pm
Aw, go for it. You can't be any bigger a*shole than Columbus was.
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jespah
 
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Reply Sun 9 Oct, 2005 07:36 am
Chai Tea wrote:
...

Christopher Columbus has discovered Belmar NJ!!!!!

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Excellent. Hope he treated the native folk better than in Haiti and elsewhere.
<goes and finds something to eat with peppers and tomatoes>
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sun 9 Oct, 2005 07:37 am
Fortunately, the celebration of Columbus Day has taken on a life of its own and has virtually nothing to do with eulogizing Cristobal Colon any more. Any more than Christmas has anything to do with Jesus of Nazareth.
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Sun 9 Oct, 2005 08:11 am
Pennsylvanians planning to drink spirits on Columbus Day won't have to plan ahead for the first time in at least 71 years.
The state's 637 Wine and Spirits Stores will be open on Monday.
This change is the result of a law that Gov. Ed Rendell signed in 2004. It also allowed liquor stores to be open on Election Day and Veterans' Day and increased the number of liquor stores with Sunday hours.
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