# Happy May Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997 "2024-05-01T07:30:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997/1 "2024-05-01T07:30:49Z")
[![](https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.480768846.9480/flat,550x550,075,f.u1.jpg) ](https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.480768846.9480/flat,550x550,075,f.u1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997/2 "2024-05-01T07:32:35Z")
Well, at least the image is not of huge military equipment and soldiers marching through Red Square. Happy May Day! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997/3 "2024-05-01T13:46:41Z")
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997/4 "2024-05-01T13:47:33Z")
Hooray, hooray, it’s the First of May, outdoor fucking begins today! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997/5 "2024-05-01T13:49:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Rabbit, run; Rabbit redux; Rabbit has too many sequels. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997/6 "2024-05-01T13:56:19Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. I know this guy on Facebook who always posts “rabbit, rabbit” around the first of the month. What is up wih that? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997/7 "2024-05-01T14:13:41Z")
The first of the month, having your first spoken words be “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” is supposed to bring good luck or something. When I awoke this morning I quickly said it out loud and my gf joined in. > **[Rabbit rabbit rabbit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_rabbit_rabbit)** > > "Rabbit rabbit rabbit" is a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good luck for the rest of it. > The exact origin of the superstition is unknown, though it was recorded in Notes and Queries as being said by children in 1909: > My two daughters are in the habit of saying "Rabbits!" on the first day of each month. The word must be spoken aloud and... ETA: it has always worked IME! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997/8 "2024-05-01T19:00:42Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Well, at least the image is not of huge military equipment and soldiers marching through Red Square. I was thinking more of a plane on fire plummeting towards Earth. Tough to be correct about it, I think that would be Happy Mayday, mayday, maday…or would it be Happy mayday, happy mayday, happy mayday? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-may-day/1000997/9 "2024-05-01T19:21:27Z")
You could take a maypoll?