# Is today a holiday where you are?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 27, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724 "2016-12-27T19:26:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/21 "2017-01-01T14:33:51Z")

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Where are the self-appointed zombie monitors when we need them?

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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/22 "2017-01-01T14:40:56Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> Where are the self-appointed zombie monitors when we need them?

???

Say what now? This thread is only a few days old, hardly a zombie, to my mind.

Care to clarify?

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/23 "2017-01-01T15:35:11Z")

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> [@elbows](#):
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> ???
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> Say what now? This thread is only a few days old, hardly a zombie, to my mind.
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> Care to clarify?

A few days but also a year old? 😃

Actually it threw me a little at first; I thought it was about if New Years was celebrated as a holiday in different places/cultures.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-today-a-holiday-where-you-are/775724/24 "2017-01-01T16:16:47Z")

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“And yet to be misunderstood is the fate of the like of us.” – Goethe

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