"Happy Columbus Day!" Topic

Celebrate with pride all you Italian heritage TMPer's! As well as all who love a good holiday.

Dave

Being 1/16 Italian and about 3/4 Spanish, and the rest mostly Native American, well, what's not to celebrate.

I wouldn't be around at all if he hadn't gotten "lost" looking for Cathay. :)

My wife (of Mexican and Spanish descent) and I plan to have dinner and a few drinks to celebrate.

Dan
PS. By the way, in Puerto Rico we still get 2 holidays for Columbus. One for the discovery of the New World and then one for the discovery of the island. As I've seen with my own eyes, even the people from the tiny but loud anti-Columbus crowd over there have no problems taking both days off. :)

We don't get today as a holiday. Although the wife does. Oh well.

My wife works in the People's Republic of Berkeley, where they are celebrating Indigenous People's Day!

Not in Columbus, Ohio.

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For dinner, the Mrs says we are having Italian. :)

Dan

It's Thanksgiving, but this year, it seems a bit trying to be thankful, what with a refinery explosion in St. John. New Bruinswick, landslide in BC, hit and run murder in Toronto, and the list goes on…

I wish they'd stop moving 'my' holiday around.

By the way, turns out I'm part Italian by way of Mexico, through my birthfather. Ain't DNA fun?

As a Fed employee…got the day off. For the city of Tucson, doesn't recognize it. Instead the city celebrates Rodeo Days and Cesar Chavez Day back in March 31st.

P.

Forgot it was today. So far I have tried to take my daughter down to the DMV to get her drivers license. Then 4 hours later went out to check the mail. Getting old.

There is a quote, probably made up but it sounds good, in one of Avram Davidson's Doctor Eszterhazy stories.
A French nobleman is sneering at one of the Marshals.
"Sir, you have no ancestors!"
"Look at me, Sir. *I* am an ancestor!"
If it's not true, it should be.

Pride in one's ancestry and genealogy in general has always seemed to me to be pointless. You are being proud of something you had absolutely nothing to do with. It's an accident of birth.
Having said that, I do love Irish stew made with Guinness and really enjoy The Dubliners.

Pride in one's ancestry and genealogy in general has always seemed to me to be pointless. You are being proud of something you had absolutely nothing to do with. It's an accident of birth.

I don't know that it has anything to do with 'pride' – it's just fun to learn more about one's family. I was listening to Iowa Public Radio last night on a recording on their blog, about coal mining – many of my family members turned from farming to coal mining.

I'm 80% Italian[according to 23 And Me] … Not so much a matter of pride for me … I just like to know where my ancestors came from.

E.g. 23 And Me said @ 100,000 to 180,000 years ago my ancestors on both sides came from East Africa. But I'm sure many peoples' DNA cannot be traced to around there.

And they said I have little Neanderthal in my DNA …

That being said, in my hometown you can't go a mile or less and not find a place to eat Italian …

We also have a lot of Eastern European and Greek fests too. Try to never miss'm !

However, last night we went downtown to a place called the "Rhine Hall Bier Haus" for dinner. You can guess what was served there ! Even if it was Columbus Day ! We'll most likely eat Italian on Friday !

Had the day off,and remembered a few old "Far Side" comics relating to C.C..

I celebrate Columbo day each year by watching One of my favorite episodes. I always enjoy how everyone thinks Lt. Columbia is an idiot but he always solves the crime and arrests the evil doer.

And then there's a whole country named after Columbus. :)

Dan