May Day

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:54 pm

It's 1 May here already - and, although I'm in the autumn hemisphere, today I'm celebrating SPRING and will be dancing with flowers in my hair.

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Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:01 pm

Arise, ye workers from your slumber,

Arise, ye prisoners of want.

For reason in revolt now thunders,

and at last ends the age of cant!

Away with all your superstitions,

Servile masses, arise, arise!

We'll change henceforth the old tradition,

And spurn the dust to win the prize!

So comrades, come rally,

And the last fight let us face.

The Internationale,

Unites the human race.

R.B.

cars · Post by **cars** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:34 pm

AussiePam wrote: It's 1 May here already - and, although I'm in the autumn hemisphere, today I'm celebrating SPRING and will be dancing with flowers in my hair.

Happy May day Pam, I can just picture you dancing with flowers in your hair, amazing!:)

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:40 pm

Yeah, yeah Richard. I spent a 1 May in Moscow in the snow in the old days and that's enough to last me forever. Give me the older version of the festival. And Cars - you'd make a very fine Green Man !!!

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:24 pm

AussiePam wrote: Yeah, yeah Richard. I spent a 1 May in Moscow in the snow in the old days and that's enough to last me forever. Give me the older version of the festival.

Awright, then !

How's about a little "Lusty Month Of May", from Camelot ?

(When it comes to pagan fertility rituals, count me in !

)

Tra la! It's May!

The lusty month of May!

That lovely month when ev'ryone goes

Blissfully astray.

Tra la! It's here!

That shocking time of year

When tons of wicked little thoughts

Merrily appear!

It's May! It's May!

That gorgeous holiday

When ev'ry maiden prays that her lad

Will be a cad!

It's mad! It's gay!*

A libelous display!

Those dreary vows that ev'ryone takes,

Ev'ryone breaks.

Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes

The lusty month of May!

* not that there's anything wrong with that !

R.B.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:54 pm

Now you're talkin my language, Richard (with a Canadian accent, of course... grin)!!!

It's May, it's May - a blot in every way

When all the world is brimming with fun.. wholseome or un

....

The birds and bees with all of their past

Never as fast

Gaze at the human race aghast etc.

In the lusty month of May

My blonde memory I'm sure has probably improved on the original.. but on May Day, anything goes!! Tra la.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:04 pm

Here, May means "Up Day" for the club, on the 6th. Riding season officially begins, (even though we put 120 miles on the bikes today) and the competition to get the most miles by the end of season is FIERCE!! I fully intend to beat out several of the men in the club, even though I'm not officially in the running. *shrug* Who cares? Let's RIDE!!!!

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:15 pm

You go, Girl !!! Make them eat your dust.

And let nobody make any naughty connections between your Up Day and other merry May get together rites - or the double whammy may give terminal apoplexy to those longsuffering FGers who are still reeling from your politically incorrect joke elsewhere.. :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

Laughter is a great gift !!!

gordonartist · Post by **gordonartist** » Mon May 01, 2006 12:45 am

Tra la! It's May!

The lusty month of May!

That lovely month when ev'ryone goes

Blissfully astray.

Tra la! It's here!

That shocking time of year

When tons of wicked little thoughts

Merrily appear!

It's May! It's May!

That gorgeous holiday

When ev'ry maiden prays that her lad

Will be a cad!

It's mad! It's gay!*

A libelous display!

Those dreary vows that ev'ryone takes,

Ev'ryone breaks.

Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes

The lusty month of May!

Arise, ye workers from your slumber,

Arise, ye prisoners of want.

For reason in revolt now thunders,

and at last ends the age of cant!

Away with all your superstitions,

Servile masses, arise, arise!

We'll change henceforth the old tradition,

And spurn the dust to win the prize!

So comrades, come rally,

And the last fight let us face.

The Internationale,

Unites the human race.

Have you lived in both?

Take care,

Gordon.

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:45 am

gordonartist wrote:

Have you lived in both?

erm.. yeah, except for the "gay" part !

(Not That There's Anything Wrong With That)

I like the quote I used in another thread :

"I am a Marxist...of the Groucho tendency."

Pagans have 'way more fun than socialists.

R.B.

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:30 am

AussiePam wrote: It's 1 May here already - and, although I'm in the autumn hemisphere, today I'm celebrating SPRING and will be dancing with flowers in my hair.

Hope you remembered to bathe your face in the morning dew as well...

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:31 am

Ahh pbth I dont even know what May Day is.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:32 am

It's a day to wear your tinfoil hat, Nomad.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:34 am

chonsigirl wrote: It's a day to wear your tinfoil hat, Nomad.

Well ok then !

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:39 am

Nomad wrote: Ahh pbth I dont even know what May Day is.
Beltane...Spring equinox....fertility rites and all that jaaaa ....aaazzzz!!! Not sure of the need for a tin foil hat ...not on your head anyway!!!!

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Mon May 01, 2006 2:30 pm

Astra wrote: Hope you remembered to bathe your face in the morning dew as well...

Of course, Astra !!! Grin.