# Happy Walpurgis Nacht and Illuminati day 1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871 "2010-04-30T15:14:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/1 "2010-04-30T15:14:41Z")
Tonight is [Walpurgis Nacht](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_nacht), so to those who celebrate it, have a good one ! And tomorrow is the anniversary of the founding of the Bavarian Illuminati, Fnord ! everybody. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/2 "2010-04-30T16:40:18Z")
Today is also Hitler’s Death Day- no doubt on this date because of “the magical battle of Britain”. (Look it up.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/3 "2010-04-30T18:18:50Z")
Ewige Blumenkraft! ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/4 "2010-04-30T21:17:00Z")
They’re celebrating our day - it’s all going according to plan… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/5 "2010-04-30T23:48:45Z")
Well, I’d like to see a “Conspiracy Theorist”[sup]TM[/sup] day celebrated, so I figured that May 1[sup]st[/sup] was the perfect day to celebrate it (the other candidate being November 22[sup]nd[/sup]). Uniform of the day will be the tinfoil hat 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/6 "2010-05-01T00:53:52Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > They’re celebrating our day - it’s all going according to plan… > > 😃 Indeed. Heute die Welt, morgens das Sonnensystem. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/7 "2010-05-01T00:54:46Z")
Happy Beltane eve for those of the Wiccan persuasion!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/8 "2010-05-01T01:07:28Z")
Happy Walpurgisnacht and Beltaine to those who celebrate. Though I won’t be creating a bonfire, I may make a smaller celebratory gesture tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/9 "2010-05-02T14:06:41Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Indeed. Heute die Welt, morgens das Sonnensystem. Ich verstehe nicht. Bitte übersetzen! ---
**Author:** ![Bogeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@Bogeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bogeyman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/10 "2010-05-03T13:05:08Z")
I think what **Marley** wanted to say was _Today the world, tomorrow the solar system_. What he did say was _Today the world, the solar system in the mornings_. 😛 To be fair, Shea and Wilson got it wrong first. 😃 (It should be _Heute die Welt, Morgen das Sonnensystem_.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/11 "2010-05-03T13:07:29Z")
I knew the Red Head would come through somehow. 😉 At least my misquote was accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Bogeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@Bogeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bogeyman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/12 "2010-05-03T13:13:58Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I knew the Red Head would come through somehow. 😉 At least my misquote was accurate. Ich verstehe nicht! Red Head? Please enlighten me. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/13 "2010-05-03T13:28:49Z")
> [@Bogeyman](#): > > Ich verstehe nicht! Red Head? Please enlighten me. That would be Eris Discordia. She’s commonly (not universally) depicted as a redhead for whatever reason. [More on her, but nothing about the hair color, over here.](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/body.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/14 "2010-05-03T13:36:05Z")
Did you pass the abyss? ---
**Author:** ![Bogeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@Bogeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bogeyman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/15 "2010-05-03T13:47:23Z")
How could I forget she of the Golden Apple. :smack: Hail Eris! And Fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-walpurgis-nacht-and-illuminati-day-1/537871/16 "2010-05-03T19:06:39Z")
Aeris is dead ☹