Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 04, 2018

Happy Cinco de Mayo?

But New Years Eve and Day are a places on the calendar too.

Not all dictionaries will have “no” as the 702nd word, I wager!

http://bostonpopsjuly4thDOTorg/ 8pm ET

Which is too bad really.

Nice art today!!!

Check out Twango Bango’s “National Holiday” if you can find it.. says it all.

The fact that we call it “The 4th of July” is the only reason it hasn’t been moved to a Monday.

I’m going to start using “702nd word in the dictionary under ‘n’” as my reply to the really weird questions I get at work.

OK – I’ll throw out the old, corny, joke: Do they have a 4th of July in England?

Norway has a date-name day, colloquially. Norwegian Constitution Day (May 17) is usually referred to as “syttende mai,” which means “seventeenth May.” But this isn’t a quibble about the cartoon. Just something interesting.

It’s not a national holiday, but several states observe “Juneteenth,” aka Freedom Day, commemorating the abolition of slavery, which was officially announced in Texas on June 19, 1865.

Most of the other holidays move dates. “Happy last Monday in May” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. I think Veteran’s day stays the same. Maybe we can start calling it 11th of November, to even things out.

If there’s a war on Christmas, would that mean there’s a war on Independence Day, too?

“Remember, remember, the fifth of November!”

Can’t do that with Denys Finch-Hatton Day. It’s observed whenever it needs to be observed, regardless of the date.

What’s really odd is that we call it by its British name, not by its American name, “July 4th”.

Juneteenth

MAY day is my favorite. Even originated in the US. Then the ameriKan reactionaries moved it to September and called it (Exploited) Labor Day. IWW !

The final frame appears to be a reference to the anti-drug campaign pushed by DARE etc.