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Natter 31 But Looks 29  

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Sue - Jan 13, 2005 11:09:55 am PST #5637 of 10002
hip deep in pie

some Canadians never have to go more than 60 days between holidays,

Okay, there are no National Holidays between New Year's and Easter, so this is not me. I bet it's Quebec or Newfoundland.

In Quebec, they get New Year's Day and January 2nd off. I guess they figure the hangover will be very bad.


sumi - Jan 13, 2005 11:11:18 am PST #5638 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

5 million topics later: the thing I liked about the evite quote was that little smile he made afterwards.

I do get MLK day off --- thank goodness. My office is a shambles. And I'm too tired to do anything about it.


§ ita § - Jan 13, 2005 11:11:19 am PST #5639 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I wonder what holdiay is ever 2 years a day?

They're not counting holidays that fall on weekends, which is why their language is a bit handwavey. I'd love to see the algorithms they ran to get those answers. And meet the geeks who thought it would be worth doing.


-t - Jan 13, 2005 11:11:31 am PST #5640 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

731 days between holidays?

6 day weeks?

Madness.


Sue - Jan 13, 2005 11:16:01 am PST #5641 of 10002
hip deep in pie

some Canadians never have to go more than 60 days between holidays,

According to these lists of national and provincial that's not true. The shortest winter gap is between Jan. 1 and March 17th in Newfoundland.

ETA: Whoops! It's in Alberta. Damn Albertans!


Gudanov - Jan 13, 2005 11:18:12 am PST #5642 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Maybe there is a secret Canadian holliday.


§ ita § - Jan 13, 2005 11:18:48 am PST #5643 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, Newfies never work, do they? But Albertans have a February holiday -- they're just shafted for the rest of the year.


§ ita § - Jan 13, 2005 11:19:27 am PST #5644 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Maybe there is a secret Canadian holliday.

Great. Now the Mounties are going to have to hunt you down.


Sue - Jan 13, 2005 11:20:07 am PST #5645 of 10002
hip deep in pie

Okay, Newfies never work, do they? But Albertans have a February holiday -- they're just shafted for the rest of the year.

I remember when we used to spend at least a month in Nfld every summer, it seemed like every Monday was a "bank holiday."


brenda m - Jan 13, 2005 11:22:55 am PST #5646 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

But Albertans have a February holiday -- they're just shafted for the rest of the year.

Sort of like the extra reading week at Trent in response to the high suicide rate?