On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:32:28 -0800, sean_q <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Gentlemen, the Queen. [raises glass]

I think Sir will find that the day Sir is celebrating is not the one
celebrated variously as Victoria and Canada Day on the Monday prior to may
24th in the former colony known as Canada which this year falls upon the
23rd but May 24th itself which is tomorrow.



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steve auvache

Gentlemen, the Queen. [raises glass]

SQ

On 5/23/2011 8:46 AM, steve auvache wrote:

>> Gentlemen, the Queen. [raises glass]
>
> I think Sir will find that the day Sir is celebrating is not the one
> celebrated variously as Victoria and Canada Day on the Monday prior to may
> 24th in the former colony known as Canada which this year falls upon the
> 23rd but May 24th itself which is tomorrow.

Point taken, but it is the spirit (in particular the drinkable kind)
that counts.

BTW "Canada Day" is July 1, the anniversary of the British North
America Act of 1867 that created the Dominion of Canada.

A mari usque ad mare.

SQ

On Tue, 24 May 2011 08:54:54 +0100, Champ <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:32:28 -0800, sean_q <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>Gentlemen, the Queen. [raises glass]

> WTF?

><googles>

> Oh, some emigrant nonsense

You didn't celebrate Empire Day on May 24th when you were a kid?
Or had it morphed into Commonwealth Day by then? Or worse yet your
homogenised "No more sheep-dog" Days?

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On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:29:36 +0000 (UTC), "Ivan D. Reid"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
> You didn't celebrate Empire Day on May 24th when you were a kid?

Still do mate, still do. And if I had a flag pole my little Union Flag
what I am currently waving at the screen would be proudly hung from that
today.


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steve auvache

On Tue, 24 May 2011 18:34:40 +0100, steve auvache
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:29:36 +0000 (UTC), "Ivan D. Reid"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>
>> You didn't celebrate Empire Day on May 24th when you were a kid?
>
>Still do mate, still do. And if I had a flag pole my little Union Flag
>what I am currently waving at the screen would be proudly hung from that
>today.

Only cos it's yer birthday, you old git.
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On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:29:36 +0000 (UTC), "Ivan D. Reid"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> You didn't celebrate Empire Day on May 24th when you were a kid?
>Or had it morphed into Commonwealth Day by then? Or worse yet your
>homogenised "No more sheep-dog" Days?

You Commonwealth types need to understand how Britain views the
Commonwealth.

A bit like a distant cousin: you know they're there, and you know you
have to send a Xmas card or there'll be ructions, and you feel obliged
to turn up for big weddings, and similar, but the rest of the time you
forget all about them.
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Previously ...
CBR1100XX-X; CBR1000FL; GPz750R; Z650C2;
Z750E1; KH500A8; KH250B3; TS250c; TS185c.

On Tue, 24 May 2011 18:34:40 +0100, steve auvache
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:29:36 +0000 (UTC), "Ivan D. Reid"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>
>> You didn't celebrate Empire Day on May 24th when you were a kid?
>
>Still do mate, still do. And if I had a flag pole my little Union Flag
>what I am currently waving at the screen would be proudly hung from that
>today.

only cos its your birthday IIRC.
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On Tue, 24 May 2011 20:37:19 +0100, Champ <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:29:36 +0000 (UTC), "Ivan D. Reid"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>You didn't celebrate Empire Day on May 24th when you were a kid?

> Indeed not. In fact, I'm not sure I was ever aware of Empire Day
> until this thread.

> Even at my advanced years, we had pretty much disposed of our empire
> by the time I arrived in the world.

>>Or had it morphed into Commonwealth Day by then?

1958 Empire Day changed to Commonwealth Day. Are you really that
young, for one so grey?

> Never heard of that either.

Since 1976 it's been the second Monday in March.

All according to Wikipedia...

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KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

Champ wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2011 17:29:36 +0000 (UTC), "Ivan D. Reid"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 24 May 2011 08:54:54 +0100, Champ <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>>> On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:32:28 -0800, sean_q <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>> Gentlemen, the Queen. [raises glass]
>
>>> WTF?
>>> <googles>
>>> Oh, some emigrant nonsense
>
>> You didn't celebrate Empire Day on May 24th when you were a kid?
>
> Indeed not. In fact, I'm not sure I was ever aware of Empire Day
> until this thread.

We hung the Hammer and Sickle over the cadet-hut one Empire Day around 1957

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