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optom3:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on August 29, 2008, 06:54:34 am ---Morning all,
Watch out for that glue, David! LOL
61 degrees and a little bit foggy here this morning...
Today's Friday and then we have the 3 day Labor Day weekend. LABOR DAY! Um....what happened to summer???
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What is labo(u)r day, no one I know here can tell me.Does it signify the end of Summer?
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: optom3 on August 29, 2008, 07:45:08 am ---What is labo(u)r day, no one I know here can tell me.Does it signify the end of Summer?
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I don't know the original origins of Labor Day but I think it had something to do with workers, unions and so on. Sort of like May Day in the rest of the world (I believe).
But for most of us, yes, it does signal the end of summer. Summer starts with Memorial Day (end of May), peaks on July 4th, and ends with Labor Day. Traditionally, for those of us in the northeast at least, school starts a few days after Labor Day. My son heads back to college on Monday and my daughter goes back to school on Thursday, Sep 4. For me growing up, school *always* began on the Wednesday after Labor Day.
Labor Day is the first Monday in September and it is early this year...Sept 1st!
CellarDweller:
morning everyone!
How are you all?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on August 29, 2008, 02:15:10 am ---The verb belonging to Schnüffler is "schnüffeln", which is both, to sniffle and to snoop around. It's a colloquial word for a private detective (it can also mean a person who sniffs adhesives). And in this case it means exactly what you said: other nosey people, who behave like a private detective (snooping around in other people's private business) but aren't.
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:D A new word for my vocabulary! Now, when someone asks me a nosey question, I'll tell him, "Don't be such a Schnuffler!" :D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: optom3 on August 29, 2008, 07:45:08 am ---What is labo(u)r day, no one I know here can tell me.Does it signify the end of Summer?
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On the origins and history of Labor Day in the U.S.
http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm
From Wikipedia, on Labor Day around the world, where it is usually May 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day
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