Celebrate King Day!

[jscheuer1]

Here in the US, it is Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday (observed) - a national holiday! Celebrate!

[mburt]

Hurrah. :)

[Twey]

Certainly worth celebrating, though I've yet to see a black American President...

[djr33]

Obama in 08?


Twey, what about Great Britain? Has there yet been a black prime minister? (I really have no idea... y'know... US schooling and such. We don't know our history well, let alone yours. Heh.)

[mburt]

In the us... COUNTRY = PRIDE, PRIDE = COUNTRY
Seems to be most of the problem :) No offense, just making light of the situation, which I probably shouldn't be doing.

[Twey]

Not yet, no. We consider ourselves one step ahead of you Americans, though, since we've had a female prime minister, although since that turned out to be Maggie Thatcher, I doubt if people will dare again for a while :p

Come to think about it, Maggie Thatcher was probably inadvertantly Labour's greatest advocate...

[djr33]

Didn't know that. Interesting.

America could do it in one move, though, since Oprah is so popular. If she ran.... might just work.

[Twey]

America could do it in one move, though, since Oprah is so popular. If she ran.... might just work.Heh, strange. All the Americans with whom I regularly consort seem to think Oprah Winfrey is evil personified, for some reason :p

Let's celebrate the occasion with a picture of Bush eating a cat (http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/d/d3/Bushcat.jpg).

[djr33]

I don't particularly like her, though I don't see why she'd be considered evil... she at least tries to help. But in doing so, she does get rich ;)

Wondeful picture. The compression hides that it's fake well.

[thetestingsite]

I still remember the day she gave everyone in her audience a brand new car. I was a little upset because I didn't even have transportation to get to and from work and I didn't have the money to afford a car.

[djr33]

But... that doesn't hurt you... it just helps them... right?

[jscheuer1]

Let's celebrate the occasion with a picture of Bush eating a cat (http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/d/d3/Bushcat.jpg).

LOL - almost ROTFL!

[BLiZZaRD]

I was going to go to that taping that day too, but I didn't have a car to get there, meh. :D

[tech_support]

Heh.

We don't celebrate his birthday here in Australia.

[BLiZZaRD]

No offense but you don't celebrate much of anything in AU do you? No halloween, no MLK day... etc

[tech_support]

There's Australia day coming up.

And yes, we don't celebrate much because it'll bankrupt the government :D

[BLiZZaRD]

On the other hand the US will make a holiday for anything we can get out of going to work for :D

[tech_support]

How about George Bush's Birthday? :)

[BLiZZaRD]

That one we might skip... but I hear we made a Gerald Ford day! Woo Hoo! That makes 18 holidays a year I get paid double time for!

[tech_support]

Cool :) That'll be 18 days off school for me (If I lived in the US) :)

[BLiZZaRD]

I am not sure that all the ones I get paid for are all national holidays. I work for a Native American tribe, as a Gaming Agent in their casino. So I get things like the tribes Treaty Day, as a paid holiday, for example. The kids still go to school that day though.

[tech_support]

Oh well. When it's a public holiday in Australia, the kids don't have school and if you're working on that day, it's triple pay.