May 1st has apparently been Loyalty Day since the 1930's.
Really? Really?! Dang, Loyalty Day has a piss poor publicist.
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
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Burrell - May 01, 2006 11:33:46 am PDT #4778 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
§ ita § - May 01, 2006 11:34:01 am PDT #4779 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Burrell, tell me when you find out your plans, and let's arrange a little something.
Hayden - May 01, 2006 11:34:03 am PDT #4780 of 10002
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First celebrated unofficially as "Americanism Day," officially made Loyalty Day by Eisenhower in 1958.
Because "Americanism" in the 1930s meant "immigrant bashing," and everyone knows that Republicans don't engage in that sort of thing.
Typo Boy - May 01, 2006 11:35:54 am PDT #4781 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I guess May Day is just too unamerican - involving that famous foreign city of Chicago and all, and before that Maypoles and all.
tommyrot - May 01, 2006 11:38:17 am PDT #4782 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Because "Americanism" in the 1930s meant "immigrant bashing," and everyone knows that Republicans don't engage in that sort of thing.
Well, if the holiday was orginally created to oppose May Day (a Communist holiday) so maybe it was mainly "Americanism" as the opposite of "naughty communism."
Just a guess, anyway....
Jessica - May 01, 2006 11:41:52 am PDT #4783 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Dang, Loyalty Day has a piss poor publicist.
I'm sure I'd be able to remember it much better if we got a three-day weekend. Lousy non-federal-holiday official day...
brenda m - May 01, 2006 11:43:16 am PDT #4784 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
Because "Americanism" in the 1930s meant "immigrant bashing," and everyone knows that Republicans don't engage in that sort of thing.
Of course not! Why, if that were the case, there'd be hundreds of thousands of outraged people marching in the streets.
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Nevermind.
Aims - May 01, 2006 11:43:58 am PDT #4785 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Here I am, sitting in the middle of Downtown LA and I can't hear a peep from the protest.
tommyrot - May 01, 2006 11:46:56 am PDT #4786 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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tommyrot - May 01, 2006 11:50:45 am PDT #4787 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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I think they should put Darth Vader on the penny....