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Victoria Day
Our excessively monarchist priest was telling me how we would mark Victoria
Day by singing God Save the Queen at the end of the service. He lamented that most people don't know the holiday as Victoria Day anymore. I told him that we prairie folk use it to commemorate an early settler, a Chinese woman immigrant, whose customs we often didn't understand. He walked right into it, and asked who that was. I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere |
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Victoria Day
Dawne Peterson wrote: I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere All right, is this some Canuck thing? I don't get it..... Joan scratching head |
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Victoria Day
Joan E. wrote:
Dawne Peterson wrote: I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere All right, is this some Canuck thing? I don't get it..... Joan scratching head Thanks, Joan. I didn't want to be the first to admit it. -- Brenda Tickler of Chuzzles |
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Victoria Day
"Brenda Lewis" wrote in message .. . Joan E. wrote: Dawne Peterson wrote: I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere All right, is this some Canuck thing? I don't get it..... Joan scratching head Thanks, Joan. I didn't want to be the first to admit it. -- Brenda Tickler of Chuzzles You`re not alone - I thought she`d flipped but was too polite to say so. You know me!!! ;-D Pat P |
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Victoria Day
Pat P wrote: "Brenda Lewis" wrote in message .. . Joan E. wrote: Dawne Peterson wrote: I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere All right, is this some Canuck thing? I don't get it..... Joan scratching head Thanks, Joan. I didn't want to be the first to admit it. -- Brenda Tickler of Chuzzles You`re not alone - I thought she`d flipped but was too polite to say so. You know me!!! ;-D Pat P Well, add me to the list. Gill |
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Victoria Day
"Gill Murray" wrote in message news:n5Hcg.8719$kR6.3562@trnddc05... Pat P wrote: "Brenda Lewis" wrote in message .. . Joan E. wrote: Dawne Peterson wrote: I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere All right, is this some Canuck thing? I don't get it..... Joan scratching head Thanks, Joan. I didn't want to be the first to admit it. -- Brenda Tickler of Chuzzles You`re not alone - I thought she`d flipped but was too polite to say so. You know me!!! ;-D Pat P Well, add me to the list. Gill Me too L |
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Victoria Day
"Joan E." wrote in message ups.com... Dawne Peterson wrote: I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere All right, is this some Canuck thing? I don't get it..... Joan scratching head Glad to know there are others ... Felice |
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Victoria Day (May Long!)
"Felice Friese" wrote in message news "Joan E." wrote in message ups.com... Dawne Peterson wrote: I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere All right, is this some Canuck thing? I don't get it..... Joan scratching head Glad to know there are others ... Felice Answering herself, she reports: Found this on a campsite website when I googled May Long: "Campsites still available at Valens for May Long Weekend". OK, now I get it. Cute. Felice: |
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Victoria Day
Felice Friese wrote:
"Joan E." wrote in message ups.com... Dawne Peterson wrote: I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere All right, is this some Canuck thing? I don't get it..... Joan scratching head Glad to know there are others ... Felice I read it in the middle of the night and decided it might make more sense 12 hours later when I was properly awake. -- Karen C - California Finished 4/8/06 - needlepoint calendar canvas for June WIP: Getting all the UFOs done, July birthstone, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!! Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths See my designs exclusively at www.TyWolfeDesigns.com Editor/Proofreader http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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Victoria Day
Sorry to befuddle everyone--but no one out here calls the weekend "Victoria
Day Weekend". It is referred to by everyone as "May Long". Not "the May long weekend", just "May Long." Thus one asks one's buds, "watcha doin' May Long??". Guess you have to be wearing a bunnyhug to get it. Dawne |
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