On 2010-05-02 15:36:23 -0700, George Shirley said:

> Last May Day celebration I attended was in Istanbul, the soldiers were
> busy hunting Communists who had adopted May Day as their own holiday. I
> asked a Turk soldier what they did when they caught one decorating a
> statue of Ataturk and he told me they usually just killed them.

Those Turks--what kidders! "Hello, Johnny; what is your name?"

> We shook hands and parted. May 1, 1985.
>
> As an aside, when I was a kid in the late forties, early fifties we
> always had a Maypole at school and danced around it and a
> mini-carnival, sort of an end to the cold winter holiday. Haven't seen
> that in a very long time. I must be getting really old.

You've just skewed the mean age here up by 20 minutes.
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