Subject: Re: 7 November, PLutonium Day is the only future holiday
From: JC
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:03:04 +0000
Zdislav V. Kovarik wrote:
>
> In article <55tll9$f39@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
> Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> :In the future there is no other holiday, just one, plutonium day. It
> :comes 7 November, today.
> :
> :Unlike the other useless holidays of bygone days, of Xmass of
> :commercial crap. Of Easter silliness of an Easter bunny and painted
> :eggs. Of New Years get drunk and useless fireworks. Of National
> :holidays and a nation is born false allegiances, of presidents day, of
> :memorial day glorifying war and dying and politicians of dubious merit.
> : Or past holidays of yore of wasteful libations or animal slaughter or
> :virgin sacrifice. All of these holidays worship or praise or celebrate
> :things of non-importance. Holidays should be pragmatic, should be spent
> :with time and energy from the soul of a person. Such as a poem.
> [...]
> Right on! November 7 is the 79th anniversary of the Great October
> Socialist Revolution in Russia. It turned out to be a colossal failure,
> too.
Let's not encourage AP to further delusions of grandeur.I for one
refused to go to work on 7th November on the grounds that it was
a public holiday, referring my employers to AP for further
information. Now they want to offer him my job...
JC