Lets start a petition to cancel the holidays

[hotdogPi]

My ideas:

New Years Day: Keep everything but the alcohol.
Epiphany: Keep.
Martin Luther King Day: Rename to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Chinese New Year: Celebrate in China only.
Super Bowl Day: Don't make it a holiday.
Valentine's Day: Get rid of it.
President's Day: Keep the day off, remove the holiday.
Vernal Equinox: Make this a holiday, but not a legal holiday.
Good Friday: Keep.
Easter: Keep.
April Fool's Day: Keep and don't keep.
Cinco de Mayo: Keep, but get rid of the misconception.
Memorial Day: Keep the day off, remove the holiday.
Flag Day: Get rid of it.
Summer Solstice: Make this a holiday, but not a legal holiday.
Independence Day: Keep.
Ice Cream Sunday: Make this the Sunday on August 6-12, the hottest part of the year.
Labor Day: Keep the day off, remove the holiday.
Autumnal Equinox: Make this a holiday, but not a legal holiday.
Halloween: Keep everything that isn't scary.
World Series Game 7 Day: Keep.
Guy Fawkes Day: Rename to Guy Fox Day.
Thanksgiving: Keep.
Hanukkah: Keep.
Winter Solstice: Don't make it a holiday, too close to Christmas.
Christmas: Keep.
Kwanzaa: Absolutely get rid of it.
New Year's Eve: Keep everything but the alcohol.

[vdeane]

Having Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years close together doesn't really phase me, but then my family had so many get-togethers that most people would go insane.  At one time, my Dad's side got together every single week.  It helps that most of the family is in Rochester.

[jeffandnicole]

My ideas:

New Years Day: Keep everything but the alcohol.
Day after New Years: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Super Bowl Day: Don't make it a holiday.
Day after Superbowl Sunday: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Cinco de Mayo: Keep, but get rid of the misconception.
Day after Cinco de Mayo: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Memorial Day: Keep the day off, remove the holiday.
Day after Memorial Day: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Independence Day: Keep.
Day after Independence Day: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Halloween: Keep everything that isn't scary.
Day after Halloween: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Christmas: Keep.
Day after Christmas: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
New Year's Eve: Keep everything but the alcohol.
Day after New Years Eve: Make a holiday to rest from hangover (oh, wait...they did that already!)

[DaBigE]

Valentine's Day

Cancel that one!

^That, and florists, jewelers, etc. around here try to tack on "Sweetest Day". Luckily, I haven't dated any girl that believes in that Hallmark Holiday.

My ideas:
...Memorial Day: Keep the day off, remove the holiday.

My ideas:

New Years Day: Keep everything but the alcohol.
Day after New Years: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Super Bowl Day: Don't make it a holiday.
Day after Superbowl Sunday: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Cinco de Mayo: Keep, but get rid of the misconception.
Day after Cinco de Mayo: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Memorial Day: Keep the day off, remove the holiday.
Day after Memorial Day: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Independence Day: Keep.
Day after Independence Day: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Halloween: Keep everything that isn't scary.
Day after Halloween: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Christmas: Keep.
Day after Christmas: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
New Year's Eve: Keep everything but the alcohol.
Day after New Years Eve: Make a holiday to rest from hangover (oh, wait...they did that already!)

If you like getting shitfaced so often, why do you even need an excuse/holiday? Just turn every Friday into a holiday and used Saturday to recover. Problem solved.

[jeffandnicole]

If I did that, then every day would be a holiday.  Why limit it to just Friday?

[hotdogPi]

How about canceling Matt Holliday? Does that count as a holiday?

[kkt]

My ideas:

New Years Day: Keep everything but the alcohol.
Day after New Years: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Super Bowl Day: Don't make it a holiday.
Day after Superbowl Sunday: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Cinco de Mayo: Keep, but get rid of the misconception.
Day after Cinco de Mayo: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Memorial Day: Keep the day off, remove the holiday.
Day after Memorial Day: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Independence Day: Keep.
Day after Independence Day: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Halloween: Keep everything that isn't scary.
Day after Halloween: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
Christmas: Keep.
Day after Christmas: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.
New Year's Eve: Keep everything but the alcohol.
Day after New Years Eve: Make a holiday to rest from hangover (oh, wait...they did that already!)

I do wish July 5 were a holiday.  Not because of drinking, but because the big fireworks show in Seattle doesn't start until 10:30, in order to be fully dark.  By the time the show is over and traffic clears and we get home it's 12:30.  Hard to get up at 6:00 the next morning.  If I can't have both days off work, could I have the afternoon of July 4 and the morning of July 5?

[bugo]

* do away with all non-liturgical music (not setting up a theocracy; it's just that Jingle Bell Rock, Sleigh Ride, Santa Baby et al. are just terrible)

"Jingle Bell Rock" is one of the worst 5 songs ever written.  #1 is probably the Lee Greenwood "patriotic" (jingoistic) song.

[hotdogPi]

* do away with all non-liturgical music (not setting up a theocracy; it's just that Jingle Bell Rock, Sleigh Ride, Santa Baby et al. are just terrible)

"Jingle Bell Rock" is one of the worst 5 songs ever written.  #1 is probably the Lee Greenwood "patriotic" (jingoistic) song.

It's only bad if the word "feet" is sung when it should be "beat". It happens quite a lot.

[ilvny]

It would be wrong to get rid of these holidays.  Those holidays bear a great amount of significance to people. 

I don't like how stores "start" Black Friday early by being open on Thanksgiving.  By having people work on Thanksgiving, it is keeping them away from their families.  Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks and spend time with family and friends.

I believe the day after Halloween (November 1) should be a holiday so kids don't have to go to school after eating lots of sugary candy.  The kids will either be hyper, on a sugar crash, or sick to their stomachs the next day anyway, so why make them go to school?  They could use the day off to recover from the candy binge.  Catholic schools are already closed November 1 because it is All Saints Day, but I believe public and private schools should be closed as well.

[Molandfreak]

* do away with all non-liturgical music (not setting up a theocracy; it's just that Jingle Bell Rock, Sleigh Ride, Santa Baby et al. are just terrible)

"Jingle Bell Rock" is one of the worst 5 songs ever written.  #1 is probably the Lee Greenwood "patriotic" (jingoistic) song.

[bugo]

* do away with all non-liturgical music (not setting up a theocracy; it's just that Jingle Bell Rock, Sleigh Ride, Santa Baby et al. are just terrible)

"Jingle Bell Rock" is one of the worst 5 songs ever written.  #1 is probably the Lee Greenwood "patriotic" (jingoistic) song.

Hell no.  I wouldn't click on that video if you paid me 500 bucks.  I've never heard that song and I prefer to keep it that way.

[Scott5114]

Toby Keith comes into my workplace occasionally and is almost always a major-league douche. Several of the people who have had to deal with him tell me he's a lousy tipper, too.

[realjd]

I'm not a fan of New Years - which seems to be 'have an excuse for a party', but it's only 6 days after Christmas Day, and by then I'm partied out.

Yeah, I wish there was a way to space out Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years. Seems silly to have three major holidays over a month and a half and then not have another one until Memorial Day. Even minor holidays...most gov't employees go from President's Day to Memorial Day without a scheduled three day weekend since Good Friday seems to have been mostly phased out. It'd be nice to have another one somewhere in there.

Something tells me that "english si" doesn't routinely celebrate Thanksgiving...

I propose that we make the day after the Super Bowl a mandatory holiday. Maybe we can fix President's Day to the NFL schedule.

[empirestate]

* do away with all non-liturgical music (not setting up a theocracy; it's just that Jingle Bell Rock, Sleigh Ride, Santa Baby et al. are just terrible)

"Jingle Bell Rock" is one of the worst 5 songs ever written.  #1 is probably the Lee Greenwood "patriotic" (jingoistic) song.

I like "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" even less.

[PColumbus73]

The only Christmas song I like is Carol of the Bells, it helps that it isn't as overplayed as the other obnoxious Christmas music.

'Wonderful Christmastime' was pure torture when I worked at the grocery store.

[Brandon]

My ideas:

Valentine's Day: Get rid of it.

Wait till you get a girlfriend.  Then you'll either wish it away or direly need it.

Something tells me that "english si" doesn't routinely celebrate Thanksgiving...

Probably about as much as I celebrate Guy Fawkes Day in the US.

[hbelkins]

If I can remember when it is, I always celebrate Bastille Day by playing the Rush classic of the same name, and usually posting the video on Facebook.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

My ideas:

Halloween: Keep everything that isn't scary.
Day after Halloween: Make a holiday to rest from hangover.

Here, Halloween is not celebrated, but the "red" day is already a holiday.

Something tells me that "english si" doesn't routinely celebrate Thanksgiving...

Me neither.

PS: Anyone wants October 12th as a holiday?

[NE2]

If I can remember when it is, I always celebrate Bastille Day by playing the Rush classic of the same name

I celebrate I Think I'm Going Bald Day like that.

[Molandfreak]

* do away with all non-liturgical music (not setting up a theocracy; it's just that Jingle Bell Rock, Sleigh Ride, Santa Baby et al. are just terrible)

"Jingle Bell Rock" is one of the worst 5 songs ever written.  #1 is probably the Lee Greenwood "patriotic" (jingoistic) song.

I like "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" even less.

Those are literally the same song with almost the same meter, and both are in D major.

My ideas:

Valentine's Day: Get rid of it.

Wait till you get a girlfriend.  Then you'll either wish it away or direly need it.

Get rid of it regardless. I've seen the pain it causes to even those in relationships.

[hotdogPi]

* do away with all non-liturgical music (not setting up a theocracy; it's just that Jingle Bell Rock, Sleigh Ride, Santa Baby et al. are just terrible)

"Jingle Bell Rock" is one of the worst 5 songs ever written.  #1 is probably the Lee Greenwood "patriotic" (jingoistic) song.

I like "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" even less.

Those are literally the same song with almost the same meter, and both are in D major.

What forces it to be in D major? It can be in any key.

[Molandfreak]

* do away with all non-liturgical music (not setting up a theocracy; it's just that Jingle Bell Rock, Sleigh Ride, Santa Baby et al. are just terrible)

"Jingle Bell Rock" is one of the worst 5 songs ever written.  #1 is probably the Lee Greenwood "patriotic" (jingoistic) song.

I like "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" even less.

Those are literally the same song with almost the same meter, and both are in D major.

What forces it to be in D major? It can be in any key.

I was referring to the fact that both of the original recordings were in D major.

[roadman65]

I work at one of the retail outlets and we get no holidays except Christmas Day.   It was worst when I worked in the Hospitality Industry as you worked 365 days a year and double time on Christmas Day. 

To me personally I think the holidays are gone anyway.  To bring them back would not only start a war among religions, but among people themselves non religiously as we all have gotten used to them being not important over the last 30 or more years.  Even if you went back to no liquor sales on Sunday's it would create a hardship as we become accustomed to it over the last few decades.

[hotdogPi]

If you're a Red Sox fan, cancel the Hollidays. He hit two home runs for the Cardinals.