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May Day
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:54 pm
by AussiePam
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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May Day
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:01 pm
by Richard Bell
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.
May Day
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:34 pm
by cars
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!:)
May Day
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:40 pm
by AussiePam
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 !!!
May Day
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:24 pm
by Richard Bell
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.
May Day
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:54 pm
by AussiePam
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.
May Day
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:04 pm
by BabyRider
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!!!!
May Day
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:15 pm
by AussiePam
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 !!!
May Day
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:45 am
by gordonartist
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.
May Day
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 8:45 am
by Richard Bell
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.
May Day
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:30 am
by Astra
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...
May Day
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:31 am
by Nomad
Ahh pbth I dont even know what May Day is.
May Day
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:32 am
by chonsigirl
It's a day to wear your tinfoil hat, Nomad.
May Day
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:34 am
by Nomad
chonsigirl wrote: It's a day to wear your tinfoil hat, Nomad.
Well ok then !
May Day
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:39 am
by Astra
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!!!!
May Day
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:30 pm
by AussiePam
Astra wrote: Hope you remembered to bathe your face in the morning dew as well...
Of course, Astra !!! Grin.