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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 09:24:26 JST clacke
   Several people on the web, unable to find who said it first how many years ago: "Kudos to Judas for the long weekend!"
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 09:24:27 JST clacke

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     I learned in one of those threads that the US doesn't actually have the long weekend. Twelve states get Friday off and California gets Monday for un-Easter-related reasons, nobody gets both.

     Sorry about the once-successful separation of Church and state.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 09:54:00 JST clacke

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     I just learned that ironically enough May First is originally a US commemoration, even though it's only everyone else who celebrates it.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 09:54:02 JST clacke

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     #hongkong is doing great on the holidays front, we get Christian holidays and traditional Chinese holidays *and* Buddhist holidays.

     So we have Easter this weekend, Ching Ming next Thursday and Buddha's Birthday the month after.

     Also we have Labor Day on the original May First as declared by the Second International, not for Chinese reasons, but for British reasons. The Mainland gets the whole week off.

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     Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 22:46:10 JST Thomas

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     @clacke "International Labor Day" never stopped being a day of protest for the US labor movement, though

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