What day are people wearing orange, and why?

hvn_nbr_2

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Wed Jan-09-08 01:40 PM
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What day are people wearing orange, and why?

I remember seeing something about that but didn't pay attention because I didn't think I had anything orange to wear. Today I discovered a shirt in my closet with a bunch of orange, so maybe I'll re-think it, if I didn't already miss the boat.

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meegbear

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Wed Jan-09-08 01:40 PM
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1. March 17 ...

wear it proudly.

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dmallind

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Wed Jan-09-08 01:43 PM
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3. I really do do that.

It's fun to see how few of the supposedly "Irish" Schmidts and Wisniewskis and Capellinis even bat an eye.

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JackintheGreen

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Wed Jan-09-08 01:50 PM
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6. Speaking as an Orangeman

I hope you do wear it proudly, and not just to stir to s***pot. (Because I have never, *never* done anything to rile people up.)

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dmallind

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Wed Jan-09-08 01:57 PM
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8. Well a little of both to be honest

but mostly out of curiosity to see how many people understand what they are so busy celebrating.

Of course same could be said for Christmans, Easter, etc. And come to think of it I tend to wish people a merry Brumalia too. Maybe I'm just a holiday origins fetishist.

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JackintheGreen

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Wed Jan-09-08 04:36 PM
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10. Regarding Brumalia

I assume you wish bueno Brumalia on 25 Dec., but I've never looked into the date conversion from the Greek to the Gregorian that places it on that date. I know it can be done with certainty from Hebrew, Islamic, Hindu calendars etc., but are we certain of this conversion? I just never really though if it until now. Weird.

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niyad

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Wed Jan-09-08 01:44 PM
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5. indeed--in high school latin, we were asked to wear orange on that day,

and, at the time, I wasn't yet annoyed with that usurper, patrick, who chased our people out of ireland (most don't realize that the "serpents" he supposedly kicked out of ireland were the goddess-worshippers and druids)

made for a very interesting time.

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truebrit71

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Wed Jan-09-08 01:53 PM
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7. Yup.

This should be an interesting little shit-storm of a thread....:hides:

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LostinVA

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Wed Jan-09-08 05:05 PM
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11. Hmm -- perhaps I don't like you, after all

Edited on Wed Jan-09-08 05:08 PM by LostinVA

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DissentIsPatriotic

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Wed Jan-09-08 01:42 PM
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2. Jan. 11, this Friday, to protest Guantanamo. n/t

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annabanana

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Wed Jan-09-08 01:43 PM
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4. Friday - As a statement against torture

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4486&Itemid=223

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sinkingfeeling

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Wed Jan-09-08 02:27 PM
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9. Jan. 11. To shut down Gitmo.

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hvn_nbr_2

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Wed Jan-09-08 07:51 PM
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12. Thanks to all who replied.

Thanks for the serious answers and also for the interesting thread hijack. I'll admit that I have worn orange on Saint/Ogre Patty's day. I don't think anyone even noticed, much less knew what it meant. Come to think of it, I doubt that I yet knew at the time when I did it.

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Yellow Horse

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Wed Jan-09-08 08:22 PM
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13. Orange is also worn as the color of FAIR ELECTIONS.

A lot of us in the election integrity movement choose orange as our color. In 2004, in the Ukraine, the orange revolution brought a million people into the freezing cold streets to protest a suspicious election result. But here in the USA (with our exit polls "off" more than the Ukraine's), we barely got 1000 souls to march down Pennsylvania Avenue January 6, 2005 as Barbara Boxer and Stephanie Tubbs Jones stood up in Congress to protest the Ohio electors.

see http://www.thankyoupatriot.com/

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Yael

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Wed Jan-09-08 08:28 PM
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14. Friday Jan 11th -- protesting Gitmo

As an alumni of the University of Tennessee, I have plenty to choose from.

:rofl:

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