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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò posted |
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<200511231930.38340@××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.org>, excerpted below, |
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on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:30:21 +0100: |
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> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 19:15, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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>> I'd be willing to make all the changes to the tree to facilitate this, |
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>> and unless someone has a really good reason not to do so, I think I'll |
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>> probably do it after the Thanksgiving holiday. |
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> Well if you can give us an ISO date it would be simpler ;) Mainly because |
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> I have nfc when "Thanksgiving holiday" is... |
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Fourth Thursday in November... so tomorrow... |
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However, traditionally, it's a long weekend, with office and government |
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workers having Friday off as well, and Friday then becoming the biggest |
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shopping day of the year (many stores open at 6 AM and have 1 hour, two |
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hour, 'till noon, and/or rotating hourly specials) as the first day of |
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the "official" Christmas shopping season, and often the only |
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non-weekend day many office workers get. |
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Thus, "after the Thanksgiving holiday" could mean either on Friday, or |
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after the weekend, Monday/Tueday-ish, so it's still a bit ambiguous. In |
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any case, it's relatively soon, altho with the message just posted, Friday |
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would give half the time to respond compared to early next week. |
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>From an outside perspective, I'm sure it's amazing and crass that USians |
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see nothing unusual about the national holiday of thanks being |
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directly followed by the biggest day of commercial greed in the entire |
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year, as the opening day of the biggest season of commercial greed, |
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obsensibly as preparation for the day of celebration of the birth of Jesus |
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Christ, the man seen as the Son of God, and quoted as saying it's easier |
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for a camel to pass thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get |
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into paradise! Interesting commentary on our culture! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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