Monday, May 01, 2006

Mayday!

Mayday! Mayday! . . . I wonder why it's "Mayday"?

Eh?

The distress call. Why do you say "Mayday"? It's only a bank holiday. Why not "Shrove Tuesday" or "Ascension Sunday"? . . . Ascension Sunday! Ascension Sunday! The fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost! The fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost!

It's French, you doink. It's "m'aidez." "Help me." Muh-ay-day.

-Red Dwarf, "Marooned"

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