# May Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 25, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647 "2002-04-25T22:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/1 "2002-04-25T22:13:48Z")
Its coming up. I read Cecil’s book and story of how it started. But what does it mena Nowadays? Is it a communist holiday? ---
**Author:** ![Church\_Key\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Church\_Key\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Church_Key_Kid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/2 "2002-04-26T00:51:53Z")
Damn those Pagans!! [http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/mayday.htm](http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/mayday.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Church\_Key\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Church\_Key\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Church_Key_Kid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/3 "2002-04-26T00:52:54Z")
Whoops… sorry. NOWADAYS… it doesn’t mean anything. Kinda like Earth Day 😉 ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/4 "2002-04-26T00:58:33Z")
Well, it means a lot in Hawai’i (sort of taken it as a kind of state holiday-- sort of “yay, Hawai’i” kind of thing with school assemblies and neat fun stuff), and in Eurpoe where it’s still a worker’s day, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Mxyzptlk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Mr\_Mxyzptlk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Mxyzptlk)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/5 "2002-04-26T01:15:44Z")
May Day. Ah yes…reminds me of that little poem Hurray Hurray Tis the first of May Outdoor fucking Starts today!!! ---
**Author:** ![Milton\_De\_La\_Warre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Milton\_De\_La\_Warre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milton_De_La_Warre)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/6 "2002-04-26T19:22:49Z")
May 1 is Labor Day in Greece. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/7 "2002-04-26T19:32:24Z")
On May 1st Baskin-Robbins is bringing a bunch of ice cream to my office to promote their customer appreciation night. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/8 "2002-04-26T19:32:58Z")
I haven’t read the column, so I might just be repeating some info in it: When I was in grade school (end of the 80’s-early 90’s) it was common among my friends and I to take each other May day baskets. We’d get a big plastic cup and fill it with candy. You’d leave the cup, ring the doorbell, and then run. If you were caught then the person that caught you would get to kiss you (if the catcher was a girl) or punch you (if the catcher was a guy). I’m not sure how common this is with today’s kids or if it even goes on anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/9 "2002-04-26T19:38:44Z")
“Rise, you prisoners of starvation, rise, you wretched of the earth…” Sorry…got carried away, there. May 1 is a day to celebrate labor, pretty much everywhere besides the US. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/10 "2002-04-26T21:29:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Captain Amazing \* > \*\*May 1 is a day to celebrate labor, pretty much everywhere besides the US. \*\* Oh? May 1 seems pretty much like any other day here in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-day/105647/11 "2002-04-26T21:42:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cerowyn \* > \*\*Oh? May 1 seems pretty much like any other day here in Canada. \*\* Well, not in Edmonton: [http://www.mayweek.ab.ca/](http://www.mayweek.ab.ca/) Or Vancouver: [http://www.tao.ca/~mayworks/](http://www.tao.ca/~mayworks/) Or Toronto: > **[Mayworks](https://mayworks.ca/)** Or Saskatoon: [http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/community/outreach/maywk.html](http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/community/outreach/maywk.html) 🙂