Thursday, September 29, 2005

Michaelmas!

Happy Michaelmas, everybody! Go out and celebrate today by . . . um, how do you celebrate Michaelmas? What is Michaelmas?

Let's ask Google. . . . They pointed to
Wikipedia:

During the Middle Ages, Michaelmas was a great religious feast and many popular traditions grew up around the day, which coincided with the harvest in much of western Europe. In England it was the custom to eat a goose on Michaelmas, which was supposed to protect against financial need for the next year. In Ireland, finding a ring hidden in a Michaelmas pie meant that one would soon be married.

So go eat a goose and have a pie! . . . Pie! . . . PIE!!!

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Anonymous said...

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Happy now?

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