# What's Your Favorite Holiday? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249 "2009-10-09T22:30:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/1 "2009-10-09T22:30:39Z")
As the title asks, what’s your favorite holiday? I know the world over seems to collectively prefer Christmas, but I’m curious to see if the Dope is skewed different. And I’m just listing the major (or semi-major) US holidays, so if you’re from someone else, please choose the “Other” option and tell us all about it. Also, if there’s something I’m missing (and yes, I realize there’s Steak and a BJ day, but I don’t think it even counts as a minor one) and we should all know about. Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/2 "2009-10-09T22:37:34Z")
Beltane! (pagan mayday) Nudity, Fertility, SEX!!! ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/3 "2009-10-09T23:09:10Z")
I love equally halloween, thanksgiving and new years. Halloween, because I love to dress up thanksgiving and new years because they are get together with friends and family and cook like a maniac, then eat like a maniac. I really could not name one to keep and never have the other 2 again , ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/4 "2009-10-09T23:11:19Z")
Passover. Food, family, history, ritual, no need to buy gifts. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/5 "2009-10-09T23:54:54Z")
Out of the ones mentioned above, 4th of July. Primarily because most people seem to be in a good mood, the weather is nice, and everyone has the day off. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/6 "2009-10-10T00:02:30Z")
So, I’m the only one so far who chose Thanksgiving? Food and family without the present frenzy – what’s not to love? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/7 "2009-10-10T00:20:04Z")
Halloween. I love dressing up, decorating the office, and having fun. Christmas would be good if there wasn’t so much stress involved. Halloween is just a really enjoyable time for me. I’m looking forward the most to seeing the kids dressed up this year. They’re dressing up as the two things adults fear the most - death and taxes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/8 "2009-10-10T00:22:21Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Passover. Food, family, history, ritual, no need to buy gifts. Thanksgiving, for four of your five reasons. Plus old friends. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/9 "2009-10-10T00:22:57Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > So, I’m the only one so far who chose Thanksgiving? Food and family without the present frenzy – what’s not to love? Nope – me too! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/10 "2009-10-10T00:23:10Z")
> [@gurujulp](#): > > Beltane! (pagan mayday) > > Nudity, Fertility, SEX!!! You don’t need Beltane for that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/11 "2009-10-10T01:28:15Z")
I love Christmas because I love the fact it usually means I’m with a number of my extended family and I love the time of year. Winter is just so quiet and peaceful and contemplative. Christmas is the culmination of the whole season, something that builds slowly after Halloween and is given a boost by Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is wintry but my family usually doesn’t/didn’t do much besides the feast; Christmas is associated with stronger memories and, usually, more loved ones being around. (Halloween deserves special mention for my utterly inexplicable and totally unhealthy love of candy corn. It’s, objectively… well, it’s sweetened, flavored wax formed into something that vaguely resembles kernels of corn. It has nothing to recommend it. I love it and I fully intend to eat a whole damn bag in the week or so before Halloween. It will almost certainly be the only candy corn I eat all year.) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/12 "2009-10-10T01:31:16Z")
For all of you that love Halloween, you should join the [Halloween Exchange](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=534255). I’m taking participants until the 17th, so if you’re interested, please come join the fun! We’d love to have you. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/13 "2009-10-10T01:56:23Z")
I voted for Thanksgiving, but I think the poll is wrong to omit Memorial Day, which is the traditional American start of summer and is a very popular day. We honor the war dead in the morning, and then have a cookout with volleyball in the afternoon. It is a win win! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/14 "2009-10-10T02:08:31Z")
Thanksgiving rules! Stuff yourself silly and don’t have to buy anyone a present. It just doesn’t get any better than that. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/15 "2009-10-10T02:16:08Z")
March 14th, [Steak and a Blowjob Day](http://www.steakandbjday.com/) ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/16 "2009-10-10T02:22:50Z")
Homecoming. It’s only a holiday if you are in a state where it’s a big deal and you are in high school, but since I am 1) in Texas and 2) trapped in high school forever, it’s a holiday for me. I love Homecoming because it’s secular, it’s a celebration of my most important community–my school–and it’s tacky and silly and fun. It doesn’t take itself too seriously. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/17 "2009-10-10T02:58:33Z")
I picked Easter. Work is very busy during tax time and I like having Lent, Holy Week, and Easter as a way to take my mind off of work. I gave consideration to Thanksgiving as well. There is a very long stretch of time between Labor Day and Thanksgiving off, close to three months without a day off from work. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/18 "2009-10-10T03:29:42Z")
Dagnabit, I knew I missed something. Sorry to everyone for leaving Easter off the poll. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/19 "2009-10-10T03:55:31Z")
Right now, I can walk into a store and buy a rubber maimed, severed human head off a pile. I love this holiday. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249/20 "2009-10-10T03:58:09Z")
I used to love a bit of aul’ Hallowe’en but I’ll go with St. Paddy’s Day. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday/513249.md?page=2)