On Sun 11 May 2008 11:47:42a, PeterLucas told us...

> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
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>>> When do *I* get a day off??!!
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>> When you take one off? :-)
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> I do that and the whole world falls in a screaming pile!!
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>>> I just don't want to be treated like a queen, though :-)
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>> Will "king" do?
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> There's only *one* King in Queensland!! Wally "The Emperor" Lewis.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Lewis
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> "Here's to Wally Lewis for lacing on a boot
> Sometimes he plays it rugged, sometimes he plays it cute
> He slices through a backline like a Stradbroke Island shark
> There's glue on all his fingers, he's the Emperor of Lang Park"
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>>> I don't give a rats arse about this over commercialised fathers and
>>> mothers day...... if you can't show the people closest to you that
>>> you care 365 days a year, and only want to show it on one day... you
>>> deserve to be an orphan.
>>>
>>> Same goes for Valentines Day, Easter, Christmas and all the other
>>> crap.
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>> I totally agree. You can't treat people like crap or as if they don't
>> exist all year and expect 1 "special" day to make up for it. Still,
>> it's nice to celebrate a day set aside for it.
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> I've never celebrated m's or f's days since I 'left' home at the age of
> 15.

I suppose it depends greatly upon the terms under which you left.

> It was the MIL that got me onto the 365 day thing about 14 years ago.
> She detested mothers day as well. She saw too many 'abandoned' elderly
> mothers and fathers that only saw their kids on that day, if ever.
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Wayne Boatwright
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Today is: Mother's Day, Pentecost
Countdown till Memorial Day
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1 There's always one in
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