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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Any reason for a good party!
Often we go to the local resorts in summertime where the tourists are celebrating the 4th of July.....those who don't have an absolutely KILLER hangover from July First. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | There was a Mexican place in Provo called Los Tres Amigos that I really liked. Used to eat there all the time when I was consulting in that city.
Never had a Cinco De Mayo there. Maybe I should go back.
Personally (and I hope this doesn't cross the line into politics) I LOVE any opportunity to celebrate other cultures. I love the way everyone in town is Irish on St Pats, everyone is Mexican on Cinco De Mayo, everyone is Italian during the Santa Lucia festival, and everyone is German during Oktoberfest. St Pats is still the biggest thing going around here, but any excuse for a celebration is ok by me. |
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Location: enid, ok | Hey, why is it that Oktoberfest is OK, but we never celebrate Fasching? |
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Location: NJ | Excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't a person celebrating "Fasching" be called a "Fascist"?? . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by Omaha:
Personally (and I hope this doesn't cross the line into politics) I LOVE any opportunity to celebrate other cultures. I love the way everyone in town is Irish on St Pats, everyone is Mexican on Cinco De Mayo, everyone is Italian during the Santa Lucia festival, and everyone is German during Oktoberfest. St Pats is still the biggest thing going around here, but any excuse for a celebration is ok by me. You forgot those Polish feast days. I forget what they are, too. I just eat Polish sausage and drink beer all year long. Al, remind me when the next Polish feast day is coming up. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I had a great time back in 1987 at the Polish Festival in Milwaukee. My hosts were Barbara and Bruno Mlot (how's that for a good Polish name?) and they were great. The food was awesome, limitless beer, and some great polka bands (Lenny Gomulka and the Chicago Push stood out).
Duck blood soup and all the rest. Lovely time. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by cliff:
Excuse my ignorance, ....well there are many excuses for your ignorance BUT!...
someone "Fasching" would be a "Faschist"...
...or, in English, Fast Chicks.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by Omaha:
I had a great time back in 1987 at the Polish Festival in Milwaukee. My hosts were Barbara and Bruno Mlot (how's that for a good Polish name?) and they were great. The food was awesome, limitless beer, and some great polka bands (Lenny Gomulka and the Chicago Push stood out).
Duck blood soup and all the rest. Lovely time. I guess there are some things about my heritage that I just don't want to know. |
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Location: Utah | The Scandinavian arts festival was my favorite ethnic get-together. Lots of great looking women there, and alcohol. The food was probably good, but I don't remember it for some reason... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | A really ba...adaquate country band I seldom admitted to being in in the 80's got all the local Ukranian gigs. Great food and every bite would induce massive coronary infarction. All we had to do was, at one point in the evening, play a Ukranian polka that sounded just like 'Hava Na Gila' for 1/2 an hour while they stood in a circle and 'called each other out' Folk Dance style.
Cultural diversity is good! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by maxdaddy7271:
Hey, why is it that Oktoberfest is OK, but we never celebrate Fasching? The US divorce rate is high enough as it is...
In Germany Fasching is THE biggest celebration in the country. Gawd, how I loved FASCHING while stationed there! Let me tell ya'll about the time that... Oh, hi Dear... Oh, just some on-line guitar 'talk'...
No infidelity, just some hops induced flirting. It's amazing when some straight-laced fraus put on a mask... |
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Location: NJ | "....well there are many excuses for your ignorance BUT!..."
. . . there is NO excuse for being Canadian. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | 
Darn, can't seem to attach this message in the U.S.
You'll have to come here. |
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Location: Illinois | So....
What Holiday is everyone celebrating today?
My pocket calendar has CdM printed on May 5. Infuriatingly, today is blank. :mad:
A date that has far greater rammifications and implications for more people and nations than CdM.
Political Correctedness is in the eye of the beholder and therefore undefinable. Most of what I see called PC is actually PW. Politically Whimpy. Unable to take a stand. |
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Location: enid, ok | Such hostility! Maybe Canadia does need Fasching worse than we do!
Is it because no canadian teams are in the conference finals in the NHL-again? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | OOoooo....and I'd just managed to put that out of my mind for five minutes.
The entire country's in a funk.
....and I don't even care much about hockey!
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For you it would be like sharing Baseball with the world, then having the World Series won by someone who bought all your best players. ('Course, for that to happen, you would have to let foreign countries play in the world series.....)
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BTW: Baseball is Canadian too- First game June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll, ON
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by TommyK:
So....
What Holiday is everyone celebrating today?
My pocket calendar has CdM printed on May 5. Infuriatingly, today is blank. :mad:
A date that has far greater rammifications and implications for more people and nations than CdM.
Political Correctedness is in the eye of the beholder and therefore undefinable. Most of what I see called PC is actually PW. Politically Whimpy. Unable to take a stand. I guess nobody cared that Yesterday was VE day. Victory in Europe day. A day to celebrate victory over Nazism and Fascism.....
I guess a multi national holiday is just too much trouble.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'll start caring about VE Day when my local cantina starts offering 2 for 1 margarita's to celebrate it.
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cinco de mayo
