« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2009, 08:53:10 PM »
For thousands of years, this was a day for Northern peoples to celebrate the fact that Spring had defeated Winter for another year. Later, this holiday was recast to celebrate the fact that Death and Hell had been defeated forever. Both aspects are worth remembering.
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"Crikey, sir. I'm looking forward to today. Up diddly up, down diddly down, whoops, poop, twiddly dee - decent scrap with the fiendish Red Baron - bit of a jolly old crash landing behind enemy lines - capture, torture, escape, and then back home in time for tea and medals."
