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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2005-05-01 12:27 pm
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Mayday! Mayday!

I wonder why it's May Day? The distress call . . . Why do you say "May Day"? It's only a Bank Holiday. Why not Shrove Tuesday? Or Ascension Sunday? "Ascension Sunday! Ascension Sunday! The fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost! The fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost!"
—Rimmer, Red Dwarf
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[identity profile] fleurdelis28.livejournal.com 2005-05-02 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"The fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost!"?!

It makes me so happy to know that their are other religions and cultures out there whose calendrical thought processes are fully as weird as the Jews'.

[identity profile] fleurdelis28.livejournal.com 2005-05-08 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Finals must really be getting to me -- I just now realized that, whatever is on the fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost, it can't possibly be Ascension Sunday...
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[personal profile] sovay 2005-05-08 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thats okay. Given the calendrical proclivities of the Catholic Church, I'm sure it's still something peculiar.
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