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Started by Admiral Yi, October 14, 2013, 05:31:36 PM

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Admiral Yi

October 14, 2013, 05:31:36 PM
I think we should ditch it.  There's nothing good about it.  Every place I've ever worked traded Columbus Day for the Friday after Thanksgiving.  Columbus has a very tenuous connection to the US, and he was a dick.

Caliga

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October 14, 2013, 05:36:25 PM
I agree.  But I don't think it's a very good idea to piss off the Eyetalians.
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lustindarkness

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October 14, 2013, 05:43:45 PM
I'm conflicted. If The Evil White Man had not landed on the island Boriken and raped all the pretty big butt Taino women, and then brought the african slaves to rape too, I would not exist. :unsure:
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

katmai

#3
October 14, 2013, 06:10:03 PM
All i got from that is Lusti condones Rape.
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Ed Anger

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October 14, 2013, 06:12:36 PM
:mmm:
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Savonarola

#5
October 14, 2013, 06:30:13 PM
In Detroit it was nice to have because it's also Canuck Thanksgiving.  Canadians working in the US, or Americans with family in Canada didn't have to take another day off.  :Canuck:
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

garbon

#6
October 14, 2013, 08:54:06 PM
At my current job we get to pick two of 3: MLK, Columbus and Christmas Eve. My Canadian coworkers always have Columbus off so it makes for a light day.
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CountDeMoney

#7
October 14, 2013, 08:58:36 PM
I'm a-fer it.  Columbus is the least threatening of all the explorers to celebrate the rape-rape of the New World.

"Happy Cortez Day" just doesn't have the same ring to it, and would be a helluva downer of a 2nd grade assembly skit.

DGuller

#8
October 15, 2013, 08:28:27 AM
I think it reminds us of an important lesson about tolerance.  Sometimes not slaughtering the new people you meet to the last man can really backfire.

Caliga

#9
October 15, 2013, 08:31:47 AM
:yes:

Take Mexico, for instance. :(
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derspiess

#10
October 15, 2013, 08:46:04 AM
No thanks  :yucky:
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Eddie Teach

#11
October 15, 2013, 11:37:02 AM
Then Tim would just start coloring in Central America on his maps.
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The Brain

#12
October 15, 2013, 03:01:41 PM
Eggs are nice.
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CountDeMoney

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October 15, 2013, 07:14:29 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 15, 2013, 11:37:02 AM
Then Tim would just start coloring in Central America on his maps.

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