Maybe because I lived in Victoria we always still called it Victoria Day. Either one is far more interesting that the Brit's 'Bank Holiday'.
Neil
On 2/23/07, bryan_thx <bethexton_at_1HkuCsUSqrSImIa5wThxgHgVYBGjVBjZOMqXo55MNWKzVn7-7i1z4RgnU36KUCGneLDpKgTc7a1r.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>
> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com<WorldofGlorantha%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Jane Williams
> <janewilliams20_at_...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > A very sensible way of picking a date. I see that
> > "mustn't be too close to Easter" was also part of the
> > reasoning.
> >
> In Canada we still celebrate Victoria's official birthday on the
> Monday of or before May 24th, and it is viewed as the start of summer.
> Hence it is popularly called "The May two-four" holiday. The fact
> that the standard case of 24 beer is called a "two-four" may or may
> not be coincidental.
>
> Where this ties into Glorantha is similar to the superstitions thread:
> people will keep doing something because "we've always done it,"
> whether or not there is a currently compelling reason to do so. I'm
> sure there are some taxes and tributes still gathered in Glorantha
> that are 'justified' by reasons that no longer exist. Say local gangs
> in Dara Happa collecting a 'snow shovelling fee" each year, even
> though the Ice Breakers have ensured that it hasn't snowed in these
> cities in living memory. Likewise a tribal king who sends beer out to
> each tribes on the anniversary of when his several-times over
> predecessor's son was rescued from the grazers by the tribe. Nobody
> living was there, but any king who doesn't deliver the good beer will
> not be popular.....
>
> Not critical things, but good sources of color!
>
> --Bryan
>
>
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