# Lammas Day. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929 "2018-08-01T14:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/1 "2018-08-01T14:49:52Z")
I think I have posted this before. But what, if anything, is anyone doing on these boards for Lammas Day? It is today, in case you don’t know. August 1, 2018. First, a little background. It is the blessing of the first fruits. It is also roughly equidistant between the Summer Solstice and the Autumnal Equinox. I think I first heard about it in a book of neopagan Wicca, if not before. It is one of the eight “cross-quarter” days, Cecil Adams talks about (although I have never been able to find the column in which he says that [little help:)?]). And FWIW, [Google](https://www.google.com/search?q=lammas&oq=Lammas&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.2767j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) at least, thinks it’s a big deal. What do the rest of you think? And while we’re at it, does anyone here celebrate it? It is a Christian festival (“Lammas” is actual a corruption of “Loaf-mass”–get it?). :):)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/2 "2018-08-01T19:59:13Z")
> [@Ogden Nash](#): > > The one-l lama, he’s a priest. > The two-l llama, he’s a beast. > … And it appears the two-m Lammas is a feast. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/3 "2018-08-01T20:06:00Z")
And a three-L llama is a really big fire. More importantly, today is also Jerry Garcia’s birthday. Happy 76th, Jerry! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/4 "2018-08-01T20:15:35Z")
I bought a cantaloupe . Yay! Holiday! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/5 "2018-08-01T20:35:43Z")
I was going to watch reruns of _Renegade_, but now I see that the spelling is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/6 "2018-08-01T21:38:43Z")
I had the day off work so I celebrated the cross-quarter day of Lughnasadh (that’s the Celtic Pagan word) largely by goofing off. And having lunch with the local Jewish Federation, who are not only completely unaware of it being Lammas, but wouldn’t care if they did. Ditto for Lughnasadh. Yep, I’m not only a mutt by descent but also in religion. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/7 "2018-08-01T21:47:50Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I was going to watch reruns of _Renegade_, but now I see that the spelling is wrong. And I was all set to prove some theorems to help me prove some other theorems. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/8 "2018-08-01T22:55:10Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I was going to watch reruns of _Renegade_, but now I see that the spelling is wrong. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > And I was all set to prove some theorems to help me prove some other theorems. I wasn’t ready for anything at all. Still not. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/9 "2018-08-01T23:52:33Z")
So, this isn’t about Tolkien’s elf bread… ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/10 "2018-08-02T04:06:40Z")
No, it’s about his essay about the history of languages in Middle Earth. > **[Lhammas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhammas)** > > The Lhammas (pronounced /ˈɬɑmɑs/) is a work of fictional sociolinguistics by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987), volume five of The History of Middle-earth series. The word lhammas is a Noldorin word meaning “account of tongues”. In Tolkien's later development of Sindarin he changed the rules governing initial l- and r- whereby they ceased being devoiced, resulting in the word becoming lammas (/ˈlɑmɑs/). > The Lhammas as published presents the theory that... ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/11 "2018-08-02T12:21:29Z")
You look mah-velous. Regards, Fernando ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/12 "2018-08-02T12:51:38Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > I think I have posted this before. But what, if anything, is anyone doing on these boards for Lammas Day? It is today, in case you don’t know. August 1, 2018. This is what they were doing on the Scottish border in 1388: _Now it fell about the Lammas tide, When the muir-men win their hay, The doughty Douglas bound him ride Into England, to drive a prey._ [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2jjCrftey4) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/13 "2018-08-02T13:35:28Z")
I celebrated Lughnasadh after work by walking around a park and thinking about the past three months. Then I got an ice cream off the truck and sat in the park and ate it. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/14 "2018-08-02T13:50:00Z")
I was considering a small animal sacrifice, or do you think that just a bit too much? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/15 "2018-08-02T20:03:42Z")
I dunno - is there BBQ at your house later? If so, definitely OK! ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/16 "2018-08-02T20:15:32Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > And a three-L llama is a really big fire. Please, someone explain this one; I’ve been wracking my brain. (Or is that racking my brain? There seems to be a difference of opinon on this…) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/17 "2018-08-02T20:44:18Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Please, someone explain this one; I’ve been wracking my brain. (Or is that racking my brain? There seems to be a difference of opinon on this…) A [three-l-llama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-alarm_fire)… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/18 "2018-08-02T21:16:12Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > - > > When the muir-men win their hay, > \* I’d hate to watch their game shows. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/19 "2018-08-03T00:39:09Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’d hate to watch their game shows. OED: **win** , v. Sc. and north. dial. trans. To dry (hay, seed, turf, wood, etc.) by exposure to the air, or to the heat of the sun or a fire. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lammas-day/818929/20 "2018-08-03T01:28:16Z")
I bought peaches for the team at my office we all made a mess eating them. They were perfectly ripe.