A Holiday Appears!

[Lyrai]

IT IS NOW LYRAI DAY

COMMENCE APPROPRIATE CELEBRATIONS.

[Büge]

I'll start by celebrating Büge Day.

[nosimpleway]

Crap, I forgot to get my ceremonial Lyrai Day hat back from the cleaners.

[Lyrai]

Buge day is not an appropriate celebration of Lyrai Day.

BRING FORTH THE ENTERTAINMENT.

[Mongrel]

Crap, I forgot to get my ceremonial Lyrai Day hat back from the cleaners.

Lyr!

[Büge]

Buge day is not an appropriate celebration of Lyrai Day.

You're right. But it is more fun.

[Thad]

Happy June Foray Day!

[Thad]

June Foray Day is followed by Adam West Day. Happy Adam West Day, old chums.

[Grath]

Avast, it also be Talk Like A Pirate Day!

[Blossom]

No.

[Mongrel]

No.

Plank-walking target spotted.

[Mongrel]

Hyar, she don't be called the SS Pier Pressure fer nothin', me lad.

Y'ell be pipin' a new tune here, or in hell! Ye best be takin' yer pick and be quick about it!

*Brandishes cutlass in a manner leaving you uncertain if the user is merely inebriated or even aware of how to handle an edged weapon*

[Büge]

Huh. So grog was made of water, lemon juice and rum.

Er, I mean, arrr, grog be a salty seaman's poison o'choice, and let me hear none o' yer mutinous talk about spirits or small beer, you pack of dogs.

[Thad]

But why is the rum gone?

[nosimpleway]

salty seaman's

eheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee

[Thad]

Happy banned books week!

[Thad]

io9's The 12 Weirdest Reasons For Banning Science Fiction and Fantasy Books ends with a link to Vonnegut's letter to a school board chairman who burned Slaughterhouse-Five.

If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are. It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children know that. And we all know, too, that those words really don’t damage children much. They didn’t damage us when we were young. It was evil deeds and lying that hurt us.

After I have said all this, I am sure you are still ready to respond, in effect, “Yes, yes–but it still remains our right and our responsibility to decide what books our children are going to be made to read in our community.” This is surely so. But it is also true that if you exercise that right and fulfill that responsibility in an ignorant, harsh, un-American manner, then people are entitled to call you bad citizens and fools. Even your own children are entitled to call you that.

I read in the newspaper that your community is mystified by the outcry from all over the country about what you have done. Well, you have discovered that Drake is a part of American civilization, and your fellow Americans can’t stand it that you have behaved in such an uncivilized way. Perhaps you will learn from this that books are sacred to free men for very good reasons, and that wars have been fought against nations which hate books and burn them. If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Book-burning. In 1973. Sweet Christ.

[Newbie]

Cue your Rebecca Black x Zalgo remixes, guys, because guess what day it is?

[Büge]

Happy Monday, Friday!

[Mothra]

FRIIDAY
FRIIIIIDAY
FRIIIIIIIIIIDAY