* [TUHS] Re: Test, test @ 2023-11-24 2:58 Norman Wilson 2023-11-24 3:18 ` [TUHS] Thanksgiving (was: Test, test) Greg 'groggy' Lehey ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Norman Wilson @ 2023-11-24 2:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: tuhs Damien Wildie: It is Friday in Australia now ==== Yes, I know that. I was at Caltech, it was one of the first things they taught us. I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US. Does any other country? On the other hand, if Thanksgiving Day actually mattered to anyone important, the original ctime(3) would have had a special table to compute its date, including all the different a dates it had in the US before 1942. Norman Wilson Toronto ON, thankfully ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Thanksgiving (was: Test, test) 2023-11-24 2:58 [TUHS] Re: Test, test Norman Wilson @ 2023-11-24 3:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey 2023-11-24 4:13 ` [TUHS] Re: Test, test Dave Horsfall 2023-11-24 8:16 ` Hellwig Geisse 2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2023-11-24 3:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Norman Wilson; +Cc: tuhs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1161 bytes --] On Thursday, 23 November 2023 at 21:58:15 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: > Damien Wildie: > > It is Friday in Australia now > > ==== > > Yes, I know that. I was at Caltech, it was one of the > first things they taught us. > > I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving > Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US. Well, it doesn't make any sense here, since summer starts next week. But when has that worried people out to make a quick buck? > Does any other country? According to Wikipedia, Norfolk Island comes close. > On the other hand, if Thanksgiving Day actually mattered to anyone > important, the original ctime(3) would have had a special table to > compute its date, including all the different a dates it had in the > US before 1942. Well, I think that ncal(1) would be a better choice nowadays. Sounds like a good project for times of boredom. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 195 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Test, test 2023-11-24 2:58 [TUHS] Re: Test, test Norman Wilson 2023-11-24 3:18 ` [TUHS] Thanksgiving (was: Test, test) Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2023-11-24 4:13 ` Dave Horsfall 2023-11-24 8:16 ` Hellwig Geisse 2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Dave Horsfall @ 2023-11-24 4:13 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Norman Wilson wrote: > I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving Day, they > would choose to have it on the same day as the US. Does any other > country? I suppose the closest we have to Thanksgiving would be Invasion Day... -- Dave ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Test, test 2023-11-24 2:58 [TUHS] Re: Test, test Norman Wilson 2023-11-24 3:18 ` [TUHS] Thanksgiving (was: Test, test) Greg 'groggy' Lehey 2023-11-24 4:13 ` [TUHS] Re: Test, test Dave Horsfall @ 2023-11-24 8:16 ` Hellwig Geisse 2023-11-24 14:06 ` Will Senn 2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Hellwig Geisse @ 2023-11-24 8:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Norman Wilson, tuhs On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: > > I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving > Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US. > Does any other country? > In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest", on the first Sunday in October. Hellwig ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Test, test 2023-11-24 8:16 ` Hellwig Geisse @ 2023-11-24 14:06 ` Will Senn 2023-11-24 19:41 ` Steffen Nurpmeso 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Will Senn @ 2023-11-24 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: tuhs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 376 bytes --] On 11/24/23 02:16, Hellwig Geisse wrote: > On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: >> I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving >> Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US. >> Does any other country? >> > In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest", > on the first Sunday in October. > > Hellwig Happy belated Erntedankfest :). [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 930 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Test, test 2023-11-24 14:06 ` Will Senn @ 2023-11-24 19:41 ` Steffen Nurpmeso 2023-11-24 19:55 ` Steffen Nurpmeso 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Steffen Nurpmeso @ 2023-11-24 19:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Will Senn; +Cc: tuhs Will Senn wrote in <4d39f7fd-aa85-429b-9276-2c115b5d3d08@gmail.com>: |On 11/24/23 02:16, Hellwig Geisse wrote: |> On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: |>> I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving |>> Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US. |>> Does any other country? |>> |> In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest", |> on the first Sunday in October. |> |> Hellwig |Happy belated Erntedankfest :). |On 11/24/23 02:16, Hellwig Geisse wrote: | ||On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: | |||I just don't understand why, if Australia had a Thanksgiving |||Day, they would choose to have it on the same day as the US. |||Does any other country? | ||In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest", ||on the first Sunday in October. | ||Hellwig | |Happy belated Erntedankfest :). Not much no more except in the church, which is not much more either. But of course for some. Ie many put their heart and free time into social work there. Regarding Halloween -- i live only about a kilometre, but not much more (by air) away from Burg Frankenstein (actually a ruin), and when i was young with all those many, many Americans in the Rhein- Main-Gebiet (south of Frankfurt/Main .. air base, plus Ramstein Airbase, plus Spangdahlem, .. and more, all not far away, plus at least three bases inside Darmstadt where i live itself) they celebrated that. Maybe hundred or more busses parking (at Pfungstadt railway station due to space constraints i'd say). Unfortunately, now that the Americans are mostly gone, they started to "eventize" that. Some money making for "hungry" students and such, i once passed by an "instruction" of paid ones via bike (they were "biting" already). I personally: NO. 'Don't like that, even though it is mayb fun for the kids. But unfortunately we all forget our own history, and that is funny female witches enthusiastically riding their broom in the night to May 1st, which i find a much more sympathic and life fostering event. Of course -- for all you reading this enthusiastic female witches riding brooms is such a thing of the past that it almost is forgotten. [I hope political correctness does not read too much in that "female", i mean something along those many choices all the long way to the "male" counterpart.] But nonetheless, the vision alone i find much more sympathic. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Re: Test, test 2023-11-24 19:41 ` Steffen Nurpmeso @ 2023-11-24 19:55 ` Steffen Nurpmeso 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Steffen Nurpmeso @ 2023-11-24 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Will Senn; +Cc: tuhs Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20231124194137.XQKAUc9i@steffen%sdaoden.eu>: |Will Senn wrote in | <4d39f7fd-aa85-429b-9276-2c115b5d3d08@gmail.com>: ||On 11/24/23 02:16, Hellwig Geisse wrote: ||> On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 21:58 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: ... ||> In Germany it's called "Erntedankfest", ||> on the first Sunday in October. ... |for the kids. But unfortunately we all forget our own history, |and that is funny female witches enthusiastically riding their |broom in the night to May 1st, which i find a much more sympathic |and life fostering event. Walpurgisnacht that is. And shall you search Google out of interest: i see pictures of people who reuse their Halloween costume. That is not how it was when i was young. (Though a normal witch can look quite scary by itself; ie from famous omnipresent pictures i think Helena Bonham Carter played such a one, she was capable to get it from somewhere inside out.) We also have a quite famous teenage girl witch, Bibi Blocksberg i think ... witches can be good, too! That "Blocksberg" seems to come from the German mountain where, and everybody (used to) know(s) that, they make huge fires and celebrate all the night to May 1st: the "Brocken" in the Harz mountains. Ie block+mountain, and brocken=chunk. (Just in case someone would actually search.) (Other than that it seems to me, from bicycle rides, that the American tradition of eating those poor ugly birds has not truly ended up as a German one. We had some farmers with those birds running on green soil, in the Odenwald where i drive, but no more now. I have not seen them in the last couple of years, at least. Special thanksgiving meals i cannot recall belong to us here?) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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