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OT: Ranking Holidays

Thanksgiving
Christmas
New Year's
Memorial Day
Labor Day
4thof July
Columbus/MLK/Veteran's/President's

Four Day weekend for Turkey Day plus all the food and football. We live far enough away from most family that we pick and choose who we spend holiday with each year.

Christmas and New Year's. Nearly blend in to one week of time off.

Labor and Memorial. 4 Day weekends from work. Have to use some vacation time for Friday but my work is closed Fri-Mon. The start and end of summer. Food, beach and beer.

4th of July. As noted by others it loses all steam when it's mid-week. Otherwise, it's higher.

The rest of them are all 3-day weekends with holiday covered for days off so I don't burn vacation time.
 
1. Christmas
2. Fourth of July
3. New Year’s Day
4. Thanksgiving
5. Labor Day
6. Easter
7. Memorial Day
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30. Halloween
 
Posting first, reading thread second...

Thanksgiving (food and football and 4 days off!!)

4th of July

Christmas (I ain't ashamed to say I love getting gifts!)

Cinqo de Mayo (I love tequila, Mexican food and the month of May)

Easter (2 words: jelly beans)

New Year's Eve (I get to party with friends. Unfortunately the Huskies usually get hammered on this night)
 
1) Thanksgiving. As a kid, that was the start of Christmas. Thanksgiving was the perfect opportunity to suck up to your grandparents. In a week or two they'll be buying your Christmas present. Make them happy at Thanksgiving, and it'll pay dividends a month later.

2) Good Friday/Easter. Absent the Easter Bunny stuff, it's the only real Catholic holiday as far as I'm concerned.

3) Christmas. It makes kids happy, and that's good enough for me.

4). Memorial Day. Obvious reasons.

5) 4th of July.

That's it. Now that I'm retired, I find the rest of the holidays to be dumb, and y'all should just go to work.
 
Depends on your travel plans, Christmas to NYD is the best for running off to somewhere warm before the winter sets in.
 
boba said:
Depends on your travel plans, Christmas to NYD is the best for running off to somewhere warm before the winter sets in.
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NYD?
 
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August_West said:
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Thanksgiving



Anyone who says they like Thanksgiving food is either

A) lying to themselves
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B) a Ketchup addled nutjob
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Obviously you don't do lasagna on Thanksgiving. It's highly recommended. When we host, that takes center stage along with a small turkey. When we don't host and aren't invited anywhere (which is happening more with so many older relatives passing), me and the wife can be found at Texas de Brazil in a red meat coma.

Turkey leftovers work well in chilaquiles and enchiladas. Much better than when originally presented as a main protein.
 
CTMike said:
One just opened at Westfarms Mall and I can’t wait to try it.
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Don't make the rookie mistake of getting sucked in by their salad/soup bar (which is pretty substantial). Remember that you're there to eat as much meat as you can for $50. Take a break or two. And wear loose pants.
 
storrsroars said:
Don't make the rookie mistake of getting sucked in by their salad/soup bar (which is pretty substantial). Remember that you're there to eat as much meat as you can for $50. Take a break or two. And wear loose pants.
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Done Fogo de Chao a few times to prepare. Just glad there’s a new option in central CT!
 
How anyone can put Halloween high on their list is beyond me. The only good part about it is berating the trick-or-treaters who didn't dress up before throwing tootsie rolls at them.

1. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter-- these are the three holidays that my entire family gets together for (40-60 people)
2. 4th of July-- I like fireworks
3. Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day-- Best long weekends for camping, weather is usually nice
 
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For me it is:

1.New Year's Day(My Birthday)
2. July 4th
3. Thanksgiving Day(Means Black Friday for me as I love to shop good deals online even if there aren't anymore LOL!)
4. MLK Day(Was going to be a civil rights lawyer at first but just settled as an accountant LOL!)
5. Memorial Day (It is warm outside)
6. Labor Day(Fall is my favorite season)
7. X-MAS(Kind of hate it as I come from a dysfunctional family and it is the worst time of the year LOL!)
8. Halloween (love the movie LOL! but this isn't a holiday)
9. Columbus Day(I don't get that day off).
10. Easter (I'm Agnostic).
 
March 29
Thanksgiving
Christmas
All the other days of the year, once you're retired.
 
August_West said:
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Thanksgiving



Anyone who says they like Thanksgiving food is either

A) lying to themselves
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B) a Ketchup addled nutjob
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Frying turkey helps but agree, most thanksgiving food looks like someone threw up in a dish and served it...
 
I think there is some confusion between rating the day itself and the overall mood of the holiday/season or event.
Halloween is up on the list because the entire month of October is filled with decorations and ridiculousness, there's lots of entertainment in costumes, parties, dressing up kids or pets etc...

In many respects, a holiday's import in American culture can be ranked by how many TV sitcom treatments or special episodes it receives. For example you can't find multiple Easter themed episodes of Happy Days, Cheers, Friends, Modern Family or The Simpsons, but they are all going to take annual cracks at Halloween. And I can remember and see thru my kids how fun Halloween is when you are <11.

But like others my favorite holiDAY is also definitely Thanksgiving. Yet its not the best season necessarily, part of Thanksgiving's seasonality import is actually that its the start of the Christmastime which is obviously the #1 overall holiday whether the actual day itself is an anticlimax or not.
 
3rdbass said:
4. MLK Day(Was going to be a civil rights lawyer at first but just settled as an accountant LOL!)
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So was April 16 a holiday for you, or were you mostly in assurance? I went through two seasons in Tax, but most returns were either extended or filed by EOD 14. The 15th was always anti-climatic for the Tax Dept.
 
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1. Christmas Eve
2. Thanksgiving
3. NCAA tourney thursday(opening round)
4. NCAA tourney Friday (opening round)
5. Ncaa tourney(Saturday second round)
6. Nfl conference championship sunday
7. Columbus Day weekend.
 
Ahh. College Halloween parties. Pretty girls in costumes. Miss those days. Good times.
 
CTMike said:
Done Fogo de Chao a few times to prepare. Just glad there’s a new option in central CT!
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We just got a FdC this year. Haven't been yet. Might have to try it out this Thanksgiving!
 
quacktalker said:
How anyone can put Halloween high on their list is beyond me. The only good part about it is berating the trick-or-treaters who didn't dress up before throwing tootsie rolls at them.

3. Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day-- Best long weekends for camping, weather is usually nice
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I missed this year due to work, but what I really can't stomach are the kids who dress up as "Steelers". Really low effort as everyone within 50 miles owns a Steelers jersey (except me). I'd almost rather them show up dressed normally and tell me their costume is "a homeless person."

Columbus Day weekend used to be a favorite as it meant our annual pilgrimage to White Mtns for hiking before I moved out here. On a good year when colors are late, there's no better road for foliage than Bear Notch between the Kancamagus and Rte 302. Sometimes they're well past peak though. And you never know if the temp is going to be 70F or 17F (have camped in both).
 
As an adult, Christmas and Thanksgiving are the only two holidays that mean anything to me. The only two holidays with something extra associated, culturally or in terms of family time; we never did big family events on the 4th or Memorial Day. I haven't been awake past midnight the last couple NYE's. Halloween loses it's appeal once you're too old for the "let's go to a party where every girl has on a slutty costume" phase.

Christmas is tops by a mile. My entire family is a bunch of ex-Catholics but I still love the pomp and circumstance of the whole ordeal. The holiday is even more enjoyable when 8 AM Mass doesn't make your hangover 10x worse. Even non-religious people are generally in good spirits that time of year. The tree/lights, opening gifts, the music (most people hate it, I love it), the food (better than Thanksgiving in our house), the old movies that run are on repeat on TV all week, seeing family. It's the most festive time of year and I love everything about it. My job gets very quiet the week between Christmas and New Year's which is an added bonus.
 
JB75 said:
1. Christmas Eve
2. Thanksgiving
3. NCAA tourney thursday(opening round)
4. NCAA tourney Friday (opening round)
5. Ncaa tourney(Saturday second round)
6. Nfl conference championship sunday
7. Columbus Day weekend.
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See this is just ranking days and how fun they are. Might as well put Saturdays in July that you host a party, that day you saw your favorite movie, second day of any vacation, days you get lucky...

Ya'll forget the true meaning of holidays.
 
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Thanksgiving is tops on the odd years. In the even years, it's an hours-long gauntlet that must be endured. No enjoyment, just relief at the end.
 
storrsroars said:
I missed this year due to work, but what I really can't stomach are the kids who dress up as "Steelers". Really low effort as everyone within 50 miles owns a Steelers jersey (except me). I'd almost rather them show up dressed normally and tell me their costume is "a homeless person."

Columbus Day weekend used to be a favorite as it meant our annual pilgrimage to White Mtns for hiking before I moved out here. On a good year when colors are late, there's no better road for foliage than Bear Notch between the Kancamagus and Rte 302. Sometimes they're well past peak though. And you never know if the temp is going to be 70F or 17F (have camped in both).
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I live in Michigan and had two kids tell me they dressed as Red Wings. I told them "No you're just wearing Red Wings t-shirts!" and then commenced throwing tootsie rolls.

I have great memories running the Wickham Park Invitational in East Hartford back in high school. Crisp air, beautiful leaves, and the best part was we still had a full weekend after the races with Monday off.
 
August_West said:
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Thanksgiving



Anyone who says they like Thanksgiving food is either

A) lying to themselves
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B) a Ketchup addled nutjob
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I'm convinced the people who get excited about the food on Thanksgiving must eat dog food the rest of the year.
 
quacktalker said:
I live in Michigan and had two kids tell me they dressed as Red Wings. I told them "No you're just wearing Red Wings t-shirts!" and then commenced throwing tootsie rolls.

I have great memories running the Wickham Park Invitational in East Hartford back in high school. Crisp air, beautiful leaves, and the best part was we still had a full weekend after the races with Monday off.
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Once upon a time think I had the middle school record there.
 
Dogdeacon said:
See this is just ranking days and how fun they are. Might as well put Saturdays in July that you host a party, that day you saw your favorite movie, second day of any vacation, days you get lucky...

Ya'll forget the true meaning of holidays.
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Because I play a humbug on the BY, I offer this retort.

However, IRL, I do appreciate that, "Goodwill toward men (and women)" seems to uptick around that timeframe. And without Christmas commercialism, there would be far fewer retailers and far more jobless folks...
 
storrsroars said:
Because I play a humbug on the BY, I offer this retort.

However, IRL, I do appreciate that, "Goodwill toward men (and women)" seems to uptick around that timeframe. And without Christmas commercialism, there would be far fewer retailers and far more jobless folks...
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You can send me a link to a similar talking points memo about the commercialization in sports. Let's remember the discourse occurs on a college basketball forum, operating within the hypocrisy is a given.
 
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