Pioneer Day Commemoration
July 18th, 2009 by Bertie
I must say, one rather tuned in to the Pioneer Day Commemoration with something of an expectation that the ceremonies would be, how should I put it, pioneerish.
But what to Bertram’s wondering eyes should appear but a number of show tunes and things of that sort. If more than 10% of the programme dealt with pioneers I’d dine on my chapeau.
Jeeves
July 18, 2009
Indeed, sir? Most regrettable, sir.
G.
July 18, 2009
At least the 10% about pioneers was really about the pioneers. I’m sick of the whole heavy-handed emphasis on how we are all, in our own way, pioneers. Its freakish, like insisting at Memorial Day that we’re all war dead.
Ben Pratt
July 18, 2009
Commenting on this thread I feel like I’m intruding into someone’s mind. Even so:
Happy Labor Day, comrades!
Happy Columbus Day, fellow confused-but-optimistic ocean-going agents of Spanish royalty!
Vader
July 18, 2009
Or like insisting on Fathers’ Day that we’re all fathers. My son isn’t even married and he still gets the cookie.
Bookslinger
July 19, 2009
Vader, maybe it’s part of the brainwashing. 🙂
AG: But at least on St. Patty’s Day we can pretend we’re Irish. Sure-n-begora. And on Christmas, even Jews can believe in Santa Claus.
G.
July 19, 2009
I always wear orange on March 17, in memory of my ancestors the Protestant oppressors.