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― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/weldon/news/hottopics/images/Red%20Square.gif

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/Paradered.jpg

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/1_May_Polish_PRL_poster.jpg

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's a day off. Thanks, history!

― StanM, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.xmission.com/~tssphoto/images/may-pole-daisies-600kb.jpg

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

I just went and watched MORRIS DANCERS down the road, it were well bucolic.

― c sharp major, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, give me this...
http://www.postalheritage.org.uk/exhibitions/icons/images/Morris-Dancing.jpg
...over thousands of troops marching up and down any day.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Scary painted face and - omg - mixed Morris dancers...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/158/377302173_dd1611ecb9_m.jpg

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

for me this is just pay day.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Why, do you have a cold?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Goth Morris Dancers! I saw some of these in Camden once, they had facemasks (like Slipknot, rather than pore-cleansing CLAY based ones you mite get at 1x health spa). Beyond classic, obv (although I don't think you should let the deranged near those big sticks).

― Sarah, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's a day off for most, but not me. Gotta work for the money. Well, sort of.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Srsly, people get today off in places??

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.poster.com.pl/gorka/1-maja67.jpg

― zappi, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.poster.com.pl/gorka/1-maja57.jpg

― zappi, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, day off. May is a wonderful month for that, May 1st and 8th are holidays + a religious holiday on the 17th (cant remmeber the name) which means three 4-day week ends for me in May. This + Roland-Garros
=me happy!

― Jibe, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.anthem-magazine.com/blog/wickerman.jpg

― 31g, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Sam - In a lot of the world, this is Labo(u)r Day, commemorating the union movement generally and the Haymarket Riots in particular.

Of course, here in 'Murka, Labor Day is at the other end of the hot season and has been pretty well divorced from any notion of such treasonous commie bullshit as collective bargaining.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

cool. memorial day coming up this month, fantastic cause it means the nice party of summer!

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

BREAKING NEWS: http://www.cherwell.org/news/bridge_jumpers_defy_ban

― caek, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

nice part rather, not nice party (although that can happen too.)

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mjpeak.com/bp/movies/vb13_camelot_final_med.jpg

― Laurel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

The best day.

― Alba, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Cosign

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

It's the nicest month, for sure.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

everyone's on the street drunk here in berlin and it is lovely. the dancehall soundsystem is blaring and the cops are out and things will get sketchy in the evening but i'll be home and safe by then.

― jergïns, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

also, http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=53461#unread

― jergïns, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Just learned that here in the USA today is both "Loyalty Day" and "Law Day". They might as well go ahead and make it the official "Strike Breakers Appreciation Day" or some shit.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ironically, it was here in the U.S. that May Day became a day of commemoration for the left after the Haymarket Riot in Chicago.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

> Just learned that here in the USA today is both "Loyalty Day" and "Law Day". They might as well go ahead and make it the official "Strike Breakers Appreciation Day" or some shit.

Eighty-eighty! Fuckin' mid to late 20th century...

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

what's up my people happy may day

― jergïns, Thursday, 1 May 2008 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

Arise ye workers from your slumbers

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 1 May 2008 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.chicagomayday.com/

C U THURR!

― Gavin, Thursday, 1 May 2008 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

happy may day 2009

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 1 May 2009 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

yay happy may day

― erudite e-scholar (harbl), Friday, 1 May 2009 12:26 (seventeen years ago)

yay may day!

― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Friday, 1 May 2009 13:37 (seventeen years ago)

what am i doing at work
i should be dancing around a fire or something

― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 1 May 2009 13:39 (seventeen years ago)

I love May, May is my month! I'm going to be the most Laurel possible, this month, and take everything in stride and bend it to my purposes. And love myself. Until June, when it will be someone else's month.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Friday, 1 May 2009 13:51 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/L%27Internationale.jpg

― Full Metal Slanket (Oilyrags), Friday, 1 May 2009 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

i made a bird for the parade!

― clotpoll, Friday, 1 May 2009 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

Happy May 2011, best month of the year!

― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:06 (fifteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2NcMOdGtqlc/SBi6KWPUeSI/AAAAAAAAAlo/PuGphWFaNOw/s400/1916maypole_dance.jpg

― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:08 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3373/3480459085_d1118afc8e.jpg

― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:09 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.cupe3906.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/MayDay.jpg

― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:13 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg4YrOlAkds

Actually prefer the Julie Andrews version, the Redgrave is too coy and pretend.

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:13 (fifteen years ago)

This is my favorite month!!

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:15 (fifteen years ago)

Love May.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Renwick-Spenser/pages/Calendar-05-May/Calendar-05-May-q75-831x684.jpg

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:38 (fifteen years ago)

I love May, May is my month! I'm going to be the most Laurel possible, this month, and take everything in stride and bend it to my purposes. And love myself.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel)

I was so right about this. Motto 4 lyfe.

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.trussel.com/hf/covers/mayday47.jpg

might pop next door to the teamsters temple in a bit, see what the big noise is about.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:44 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.trussel.com/hf/covers/mayday1.jpg

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:49 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.opinionleader.co.uk/UserFiles/Image/cases/5352_MayDayCompanies_outlinedRGB_web(1).jpg

― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Sunday, 1 May 2011 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

Oh, I like that one a lot.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 1 May 2011 15:59 (fifteen years ago)

Well

http://media.syracuse.com/post-standard/photo/9536872-large.jpg

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 1 May 2011 16:00 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Come, it is time to keep your appointment...to celebrate MAY DAY 2012 (it could be our last, after all)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Re4S8rPVjMY/TbxOq52pbRI/AAAAAAAAATI/OJWxoQt9Ow8/s1600/walpurgisnacht.jpg

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:59 (fourteen years ago)

I will!

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/mayday.jpg

― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:36 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k_hT031N9g

― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:37 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsjMcEqjZ-c

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:42 (fourteen years ago)

it is here!!

― surm, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

how do you plan to celebrate?

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:43 (fourteen years ago)

well, i looked up some information, and it turns out that may has oft been a symbol of fertility. so i'm going to have a baby. haha not.

― surm, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:46 (fourteen years ago)

laurel
those dancers are so badass i can't even handle it

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

i have a book that tells me everything i need to build and properly honor a maypole (among other things) but it's REALLY complicated and i don't have a yard. i'm going to have a picnic, but it'll be contingent on weather. so i'm trying to think good thoughts.

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:49 (fourteen years ago)

picnic in a public park, that is

i think we might burn something if we can get away with it.

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:49 (fourteen years ago)

Maypoles are a giant pain in the neck. Try lifting some garlands instead!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/mrwuggs/National-Park-Seminary-May-Day-1907.jpg

― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:52 (fourteen years ago)

maybe little tiny mini ones!

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:53 (fourteen years ago)

that looks so nice

― surm, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:54 (fourteen years ago)

I'm going to ponder my potential for fertility, because just because it isn't exercised doesn't mean the power isn't there. And think snakely thoughts of rebirth and renewal.

― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:54 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR1jNb7pFNw

― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:55 (fourteen years ago)

yaaaaaaaay!!!!!

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/earth.gif

― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

emil.y! i've never heard a version like that -- thank you! so sprightly but dignified.

http://badatsports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IMG_0024-450x600.jpg

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:00 (fourteen years ago)

Lech, I first heard either that particular version or a very similar arrangement in the British Library - they had an exhibition on linguistic changes in English, and that audio exhibit sent a shiver up my spine. It actually took a while for me to cotton on that they'd used it in The Wicker Man, I thought the familiarity was some sort of pagan ancestral kinship...

― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:06 (fourteen years ago)

That sounds like an extremely memorable exhibit. How lucky you were to have seen it! All I know about that song is that it's purportedly the first song written in English, thereby making it the oldest known English folk song. I don't know anything about how that came to be known or decided, though.

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:09 (fourteen years ago)

decided, more likely

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:10 (fourteen years ago)

I suppose there's a reasonable amount of historical detritus left from that period, so they'd have a good stab at being right. Though there's always a certain amount of elision and elitism - 'first' is accepted as 'first with a written record', which is obviously going to err towards the educated and the ability to create and keep such records.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:14 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, that's what I meant -- it's the Sharp approach, right? I'm trying to remember things I learned when I read Electric Eden but my brain doesn't retain information unless I use it immediately (and even then...), so I only vaguely remember that there was a Cecil Sharp, and he favored a very scholarly approach to folk music.

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:19 (fourteen years ago)

why is this not a public holiday?

― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:14 (fourteen years ago)

That is a very good question. Drinking opportunities? Check. Parade opportunities, check. What more do they want?

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:17 (fourteen years ago)

the goal of peace and full employment is a perfect reason to take a break from said employment and enjoy some peace

― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:18 (fourteen years ago)

We have a bank holiday around this time, though every year someone says that there are too many too close to the same time, and we should get rid of it. Funnily enough, it's always the one that's related to the workers' cause that they suggest scrapping.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:23 (fourteen years ago)

Picnic today! Weather is bleak, but cooperative enough.

― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Saturday, 5 May 2012 18:28 (fourteen years ago)

Missed the Green Man walking up the street today.

― I must be old, I recognise nobody in ITV2 idents (aldo), Saturday, 5 May 2012 20:43 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Happy May Day, ILX!

If you see an old man in a clay suit and he tries to approach you, do not engage him in conversation. He has nothing but bad news and this is a good day. Enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjvu7oY_92g

― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:03 (twelve years ago)

Also enjoy your worker's rights today, pls.

― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:03 (twelve years ago)

http://griid.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/iww-may-day1.jpg

Even GRR has an IWW, bless them.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:27 (twelve years ago)

A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket, I wrote a letter to my love, and on the way she ran into an old man in a clay suit.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:35 (twelve years ago)

I love May, May is my month! I'm going to be the most Laurel possible, this month, and take everything in stride and bend it to my purposes. And love myself.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel)

Still true. Sniff. And a timely reminder, in all this upheaval.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Thursday, 1 May 2014 13:40 (twelve years ago)

nine years pass...

Bumping both May Day threads because that is just how much I love this particular holiday. To rain, renewal, and ritual sacrifice -- happy May Day!

This is still one of my favorite songs of all time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snnT5hgegi0

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2023 14:21 (three years ago)

Or this one obvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhQepfjBFI

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 1 May 2023 14:24 (three years ago)

so mad, I don't get to do my ritual sacrifice til after work today.

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 15:18 (three years ago)

also yaaay for the Magnet soundtrack

― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 May 2023 15:19 (three years ago)

one year passes...

Another May Day is here, proudly sing cuckoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_gzpuCpxU

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:11 (two years ago)

two years pass...

Here we are again

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 1 May 2026 12:58 (one month ago)

Ask not for whom the Beltane

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 May 2026 13:12 (one month ago)

https://i.ibb.co/8n3Bps40/source.gif

― boners for bombs (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 May 2026 15:09 (one month ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Walter_Crane_-_A_Garland_for_May_Day_1895%2C_original_relief_print.jpg/500px-Walter_Crane_-_A_Garland_for_May_Day_1895%2C_original_relief_print.jpg?_=20250504195009

― Serfin' USA (sleeve), Friday, 1 May 2026 16:36 (one month ago)

May The First Be With You.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 May 2026 16:39 (one month ago)

My faves of all time, these baddies:

https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/Flora_macdonald.jpg

May is my month and I haven't prepared for it yet bc lyfe so I'm going to try to use this beautiful afternoon to feel the most myself possible.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 1 May 2026 16:47 (one month ago)

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