Happy Loyalty Day!

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2007-05-01 08:06am

Because the prez says May 1st is Loyalty Day.

There used to be some other function for today, but nobody cares about that but hippies and commies and they don't count.

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-05-01 08:09am

My loyalty belongs to my country, not the illegitmate leader who defiles the basis of it's laws and has sentenced over three thousand of my fellows to death all over a petty grudge.

The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2007-05-01 08:28am

Isn't today the designated time to begin outdoor fucking? I don't think tWit would consider that particularly loyal what with hating hippies and all that. And of course that would qualify anyone who participated as a hippy in his mind.

Edit: Spelling.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-05-01 08:34am

Sounds a lot like something ole Adolf would have comissioned for the Third Reich. 1984 was a typo, we're getting into it now.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2007-05-01 08:40am

Today is "go to Berlin and break stuff day". Unfortunately i have to work and can´t whitness the spectacle. There´s no vandalizing and no people vs police fights in Stuttgart either. What a boring 1st of May.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2007-05-01 09:11am

I wonder how many people are even going to remember Loyalty Day five years from now? Or even next year for that matter?

Raesene · Post by **Raesene** » 2007-05-01 09:28am

I prefer celebrating the `Day of Work' (Tag der Arbeit in Austria) - by having a day off

Has he also reintroduced the Loyalty Toast ? "The Queen - God Bless Her"
(I should stop reading Patrick O'Brian..)

Post by **fgalkin** » 2007-05-01 09:29am

Lord Zentei wrote:Because the prez says May 1st is Loyalty Day.

There used to be some other function for today, but nobody cares about that but hippies and commies and they don't count.

The President in question being Eisenhower, of course.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Post by **fgalkin** » 2007-05-01 09:34am

Patrick Degan wrote:I wonder how many people are even going to remember Loyalty Day five years from now? Or even next year for that matter?

Ike sez wrote:I HAVE TODAY approved House Joint Resolution Number 479, designating May 1 as Loyalty Day, and calling for its appropriate observance by the people of this Nation. I am in accord with its purposes.

The naming of May 1st as Loyalty Day conflicts, however, with the observance of that day as Child Health Day pursuant to joint resolution passed by the Congress in 1928.

I therefore urge that the Congress enact legislation amending the act of May 28, 1928, 45 Stat. 616, by substituting the first Monday in October for May 1 as Child Health Day, thus avoiding the conflict that would otherwise result from simultaneous observances for different purposes.

Note: As enacted, House Joint Resolution 479 is Public Law 85-529 (72 Stat. 369).

Given that that was written back in 1958, quite a lot, it seems.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-05-01 09:47am

I prefer celebrating the `Day of Work' (Tag der Arbeit in Austria) - by having a day off

Dag van de Arbeid, Labour Day, celebrated all over the world by not going to work. Lovely

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2007-05-01 10:05am

Dag van de Arbeid, Labour Day, celebrated all over the world by not going to work. Lovely

The basic worker rights include the right to rest. That was sort of the whole history of May 1, protest for less working time.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-05-01 10:13am

Stas Bush wrote:
Dag van de Arbeid, Labour Day, celebrated all over the world by not going to work. Lovely
The basic worker rights include the right to rest. That was sort of the whole history of May 1, protest for less working time.

Like a friend of mine said today, they should call it "Relax After Labour-Day". Either that, or celebrate Labour Day by digging ditches from dusk till dawn

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » 2007-05-01 10:22am

Patrick Degan wrote:I wonder how many people are even going to remember Loyalty Day five years from now? Or even next year for that matter?

I doubt I'll remember past the end of the day... what day is it again?

Post by **Kuja** » 2007-05-01 10:22am

Patrick Degan wrote:I wonder how many people are even going to remember Loyalty Day five years from now? Or even next year for that matter?

We have a holiday today?

Post by **Surlethe** » 2007-05-01 11:13am

Today's "Loyalty Day"? That's one of the most retarded things I've heard this week.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2007-05-01 11:43am

Surlethe wrote:Today's "Loyalty Day"? That's one of the most retarded things I've heard this week.

First proclaimed in the 20s as a counter to the "Bolshevist" May Day celebration. It was first called "Americanisation Day" before being formally renamed Loyalty Day in 1928.

In that spirit:

Arise, ye workers from your slumber,
Arise, ye prisoners of want.
For reason in revolt now thunders,
and at last ends the age of cant!
Away with all your superstitions,
Servile masses, arise, arise!
We'll change henceforth the old tradition,
And spurn the dust to win the prize!
  So comrades, come rally,
  And the last fight let us face.
  The Internationale,
  Unites the human race.
  So comrades, come rally,
  And the last fight let us face.
  The Internationale,
  Unites the human race.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2007-05-01 12:00pm

So that's how it sounds in English

Actually 1st May was started as a worker's holiday by America's rioting workers. So America is basically trying to re-write it's own history by making it Loyalty Day

In addition, May Day in the United States is commonly regarded — at least by certain groups — as a commemoration of the execution of the Haymarket martyrs who were arrested after the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred on May 4, but was the culmination of labor unrest which began on May 1.

But hey, isn't it better to have Loyalty Day instead?

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-05-01 12:06pm

Fucking commies.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2007-05-01 12:56pm

Bah. Give me Beltaine. Drinking and Sex

J · Post by J » 2007-05-01 01:00pm

Surlethe wrote:Today's "Loyalty Day"? That's one of the most retarded things I've heard this week.

If you don't like the name, you could always wait till next year when it'll probably be known as "Freedom Day".

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-05-01 01:53pm

J wrote:
Surlethe wrote:Today's "Loyalty Day"? That's one of the most retarded things I've heard this week.
If you don't like the name, you could always wait till next year when it'll probably be known as "Freedom Day".

That's unPatriotic!

*Dials DHS*

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