Hi Rrhain,
Here in "Old Europe" we have the good sense to invite people in the weekend nearest to our birthday. Or the even better sense, when above a certain age, not to mention our birthday at all. (But that's only grumpy me.)
"Halloween would disappear", huuuuh, that's eerie! But wait: Halloween can still exist in the new calendar, it's on the 24th of November, a Tuesday. And it gets even eerier: every leap year it's on (lowers voice to whisper)
Wednesday the 25th.Of course, the greatest mystery of all would be how November 24th can be the eve of November 1st (All Saints' Day). What fun this new calendar is!
The Fourth of July? That's easy: move to France. They have
Quartorze Juilet, which means The Fourteenth of July. It would always be on a Saturday. How France is going to cope with 250 odd millions of Americans is another story. (Though I guess it would rather be a matter of 250 millions of odd Americans.)
Christmas isn't a problem either. If we leave Christmas where it is in the 365 day year, the two days of Christmas we observe in Europe (do they have two days in America?) fall on Monday the 23rd and Tuesday the 24th of Extrember, in the new calendar. So, unless you work in a restaurant or any other business where they think it's a good idea to work on a holiday, you would have a very nice, very long weekend. And in a leap year you'd have to take only one day off to turn it into an even longer weekend.
I say let's go ahead with this new calendar right away. (Do you think Buz would come along if we changed the eighth month to "Aubuzzed"?)
"
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event." - Oscar Wilde.
[This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 10-03-2003]