Mayday! Mayday!

[sovay]

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

Comments

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Red Dwarf! *bounces*

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

"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'.