Proposition 3-17

[gosha83]

Help Guiness make St. Patty's Day an official holiday in the U.S. Sign the petition at www.proposition317.com by March 16. If 1,000,000 petitions are signed, they'll submit the proposition to the U.S. Congress.

[Bleacher Creature]

Why not? My oldest son was born on that date in 1979.

[Airshark]

Help Guiness make St. Patty's Day an official holiday in the U.S. Sign the petition at www.proposition317.com by March 16. If 1,000,000 petitions are signed, they'll submit the proposition to the U.S. Congress.

I assume you know that this is a waste of time, since there is no chance a new holiday will be declared, right? A holiday costs tens of billions of dollars, and if anything, it's more likely that one will be removed rather than one being added.

OTOH, St Patrick's day is at least as deserving as Thanksgiving or Easter, so you have my vote.

[Bleacher Creature]

I assume you know that this is a waste of time, since there is no chance a new holiday will be declared, right? A holiday costs tens of billions of dollars, and if anything, it's more likely that one will be removed rather than one being added.

OTOH, St Patrick's day is at least as deserving as Thanksgiving or Easter, so you have my vote.

I can understand an atheirst non caring for Easter, but what's wrong with Thanksgiving? Quite a few cultures celebrate a time of being thankful. I remember this from my time in South Korea. http://www.clickasia.co.kr/about/h815.htm

[Bleacher Creature]

Speaking of the real St. Patrick, I think that I read somewhere that he was a teetotaler. Which seems odd than most people use his day of celebration to get rip roaring drunk.

[ShortHop]

Why would we want 3/17 to be a holiday? Personally, I'd want the day after to be a day off.

[Bleacher Creature]

Why would we want 3/17 to be a holiday? Personally, I'd want the day after to be a day off.

I think opening day of baseball season should be a legal holiday.

[BlueBrained]

All holidays should be observed on Monday's.

[Bleacher Creature]

All holidays should be observed on Monday's.

I'd rather have them on Fridays.

[Guppy]

If this becomes a holiday then I propose "Day After Super Bowl Holiday".

[Airshark]

I can understand an atheirst non caring for Easter, but what's wrong with Thanksgiving? Quite a few cultures celebrate a time of being thankful. I remember this from my time in South Korea. http://www.clickasia.co.kr/about/h815.htm

Atheism has nothing to do with it. Easter in the United States is about bunnies that distribute striped chicken eggs, not about the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. It's a remnant of a pagan ritual, even in Europe. Christmas is much the same, because the generally-accepted historical evidence says that Jesus was probably born in September. But a winter celebration is common enough around the world, so I'm OK with it.

Thanksgiving is a bullshit made-up holiday, invented by a magazine to have a reason for a special issue. Practically everything you think of as fact about Pilgrims and Indians is pure fantasy, and frankly, I don't like the fact that they teach my kid in school that it's historical when it's not.

[MsFunkay]

why? so the kids will understand daddy's drunk cause he's celebrating the lucky charms guy?

[007]

I assume you know that this is a waste of time, since there is no chance a new holiday will be declared, right? A holiday costs tens of billions of dollars, and if anything, it's more likely that one will be removed rather than one being added.

OTOH, St Patrick's day is at least as deserving as Thanksgiving or Easter, so you have my vote.

You do realize he works for one of the leading advertising firms and that Guinness is likely one of his accounts, right?

[marco]

So are you saying we should have a Federal Reserve Holiday on St. Patty's day, like Columbus Day, MLK Day, Columbus Day, etc? That's dumb. Corona should petition that Cinco De Mayo be a National Holiday also since it's another adopted American Amatuers Get Wasted and Drive Home Day.

[Airshark]

It is true that I'd rather have another holiday in Spring instead of all lumped in at the end of the year. Like I said, if they want to swap St Patty's for Thanksgiving, I'm all over it.