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Title: Happy Pioneer Day
Post by: 42 on July 24, 2003, 01:53:11 PM

I just love a State Holiday that gets me off of work while the rest of the country is slaving away.

Title: Re: Happy Pioneer Day
Post by: Mistress of Darkness on July 24, 2003, 06:52:51 PM

What are you talking about the rest of the country? I have to be at work for 24 hours, and I'm in American Fork.

Title: Re: Happy Pioneer Day
Post by: Spriggan on July 24, 2003, 08:14:38 PM

Bah you set your own hours anyway 42.

Title: Re: Happy Pioneer Day
Post by: 42 on July 25, 2003, 02:54:10 AM

Yes but my place of my employment is technically closed as is the rest of campus, so it counts as a holiday.

Besides, if you live in Utah, you should at least passively recognize Pioneer Day. Just to be courteous if anything.

Title: Re: Happy Pioneer Day
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on July 25, 2003, 08:45:23 AM

My coworkers who had lived in Utah and I were making fun of pioneer day just a few days ago. Does that count?

Title: Re: Happy Pioneer Day
Post by: 42 on July 25, 2003, 08:28:37 PM

I sort of find find that to be rude now-a-days. When I first moved to Utah, I thought Pioneer Day was stupid, but now I think Utah has the right to be different from the rest of the country with little cultural quirks and having it's own holidays. I don't really like the idea of the US being one monstrous mega-culture.

Title: Re: Happy Pioneer Day
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on July 25, 2003, 10:54:24 PM

Is it still rude if there's no one there to be offended by it? I guess it would still be dodgy if you applied that to racist jokes, but I don't think of it as that extreme.

In fact, I find it more rude to explain how you get the day off while I have to talk to moron retards and build up my bitterness and hatred.  :P

Title: Re: Happy Pioneer Day
Post by: Fellfrosch on July 28, 2003, 11:53:13 AM

So is Utah the only state that has a state holiday? IT seems like that would be more common.

Besides--if we get a day off while you have to work, why are you making fun of us? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Title: Re: Happy Pioneer Day
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on July 28, 2003, 05:12:15 PM

Don't bother me with details! I'm busy mocking!