Re: Religion returns to Easter

"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Apparently even people nailed up on crosses look forward to the
>> long weekend.
>
> In the US, Easter weekend is no longer than any other weekend.  Nobody
> (that I know of) gets that Friday or Monday off.

We get Easter Monday as a stat here. Our company also gives us Easter 
Friday off as well, which is good, so we can see if the Easter Rabbit 
leaves his shadow.

> That's why Balticon switched from Easter weekend to Memorial Day
> weekend after Disclave abandoned the latter -- so it could run one
> more day.

A hard call for cons. Some con goes prefer the con on a long weekend, 
while others often have other things (family dinners for example) 
planned for those weekends and prefer non holiday weekends for cons.

> I don't know what the holidays were like in ancient Judea.  Maybe they
> stuffed an extra day in the *middle* of the weekend, given that it was
> somehow three days from Good Friday to Easter Sunday.

Karl Johanson