# My favorite day of the year

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-day-of-the-year/70954>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 2, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-day-of-the-year/70954 "2001-07-02T13:28:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-day-of-the-year/70954/1 "2001-07-02T13:28:58Z")

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> The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore.

- John Adams

Happy Almost-Independence Day, everyone. May you all be free forever.

🙂

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-day-of-the-year/70954/2 "2001-07-02T22:08:36Z")

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[sub]Bumpage[/sub]

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**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-day-of-the-year/70954/3 "2001-07-03T21:54:19Z")

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Thanks and right back at ya, friedo. 🙂

Abby

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favorite-day-of-the-year/70954/4 "2001-07-04T04:08:08Z")

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_choke_

[one minor angelfoodcake keyboardsplort later]

Aw, he dint really say that, did he?

Awwww.

So, wait, what happened on the 2nd? I’ve seen _1776_ like a million times, and it’s the 4th when they sign the thing and they all gather around the desk and pose and the music starts doing this _dong dong_ chime thing…

What?