UNpopular public holidays?

[The Darknight Detective]

^^^Oh hell yes! Koch was the MAN! I grew up w. that guy.

As for the story well, it’s not all that weird.
I was at Forbidden Planet comic shop that day, just browsing, and ran across a book called GRENDEL, the monthly starring Christine Sparr (I’d never heard of Hunter Rose, but would).

I totally dug it, and grabbed all the available issues but the store didn’t have the all important first issue.

The guy at the counter made a few calls for me, and found a shop in midtown that had it, so off I went.

I totally did not factor in the parade.

Once off the subway I realized it was between me and the comic shop so…I went for it.

It was surprisingly easy to cut across but yeah, the cops were on my ASS; I barely got away.

And I did get that first issue!

LOL

Man, that's a great story, though I don't think I would have had the courage to have done it myself (though it was a first issue...)

[Riv86672]

LOL

Man, that's a great story, though I don't think I would have had the courage to have done it myself (though it was a first issue...)

^^^lol yeah!
I think back on the stupid things I did growing up and wanna Gibbs smack myself sometimes.

[Mister Mets]

The United States used to celebrate a holiday on November 23rd called Evacuation Day, celebrating the departure of the British from New York City.

It declined over the years as the revolutionary war receded from living memory, the Americans realized they still needed to work with the British, and Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation created a new holiday around the same time.

I think it could come back as the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

[Mister Mets]

I'm half-Italian and that side of my family has never made a big deal of the holiday based on our ancestry (and I say that as someone who grew up in the NYC metropolitan area). My Irish half, however, is a totally different story. Both sides make a fairly big deal of St. Patrick's Day (as a Roman Catholic holiday, it makes sense).

It is kinda funny that St Patrick's Day is a bigger deal in the US than in Ireland. The prime minister of Ireland comes to Boston (and sometimes DC) to celebrate.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/...s-1581968.html

[The Darknight Detective]

The United States used to celebrate a holiday on November 23rd called Evacuation Day, celebrating the departure of the British from New York City.

It declined over the years as the revolutionary war receded from living memory, the Americans realized they still needed to work with the British, and Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation created a new holiday around the same time.

I think it could come back as the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

I have read countless history books and seen numerous documentaries, yet this is the first time I have heard about this deceased holiday.

[CaptCleghorn]

The United States used to celebrate a holiday on November 23rd called Evacuation Day, celebrating the departure of the British from New York City.

It declined over the years as the revolutionary war receded from living memory, the Americans realized they still needed to work with the British, and Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation created a new holiday around the same time.

I think it could come back as the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

It is kinda funny that St Patrick's Day is a bigger deal in the US than in Ireland. The prime minister of Ireland comes to Boston (and sometimes DC) to celebrate.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/...s-1581968.html

Funny thing about both of these. Boston politicians like drinking on St Paddy's Day. So Boston's county takes the day off, there are parades where there's a lot of drinking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacua...Massachusetts)

[williamtheday]

National Gorilla Suit Day.

[Riv86672]

National Gorilla Suit Day.

^^^All hail Don Martin!