What is your favorite holiday?

[IrishEyes]

There are tons of holiday's in the US and around the world. Which is your favorite?

Some examples are Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Fourth of July, Easter, Memorial Day, Diwali, Passover, New Year's Eve, Earth Day, Martin Luther King Day, Star Wars Day, Towel Day, St. Patricks Day, Father's Day, etc.

Or any other holiday in the world. It can be official or unofficial, religious or not and celebrated in just one country or anywhere in the world.

[sarge43]

1. Thanksgiving Day

It's a day anyone can celebrate. Earth Day is good, too.

[IrishEyes]

9. I always liked thanksgiving

I the last few years, my family goes out to dinner at the same fancy restaurant every year. We have a wonderful meal. There is no preparing and cleaning up. The only bad thing is there are no leftovers. Thanksgivings at home are fun too.

[femmocrat]

2. Anymore, I find them all tiresome.

I used to really like Easter because it was less work than Christmas and Thanksgiving.

What is Towel Day?

[IrishEyes]

5. It is an unofficial holiday.

Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May as a tribute to the author Douglas Adams by his fans. On this day, fans carry a towel with them, as described in Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to demonstrate their appreciation for the books and the author. The commemoration was first held two weeks after Adams' death on 11 May 2001.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Veterans Day

Veterans get a free lunch at Applebees (and other places), maybe a free car wash.

And there's no shopping involved.

Yes, it's sort of a re-purposed "Armistice Day" or "Remembrance Day", but I like it anyway.

[IrishEyes]

6. I like Veterans Day.

It is also my birthday. I always got the day off from school on my birthday where I lived. It is good to have a day to honor the veterans.

[NightWatcher]

4. Dress Like A Pirate Day

When else can you get a free dozen of Krispy Kreme doughnuts simply by gathering the family and dressing up like pirates?

[IrishEyes]

7. Always fun.

Any holiday that includes doughnuts is good. I participated in a pirates day parade once. Everyone was dressed as pirates and there was a contest for the best dressed and best talking pirate. It was fun.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. That's easy

GROUNDHOG DAY!

http://www.groundhog.org/

[IrishEyes]

10. Can't argue with that.

It gave us the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. One year I should take a road trip to Punxsutawney PA to celebrate.

[shenmue]

11. Christmas

Whee!

[IrishEyes]

12. Good choice

I like to look at the department store window displays in the city. It is also fun to watch Christmas movies. Most people have their own specific favorite Christmas movies that they watch every year. Decorating the Christmas tree is fun. Plus the Christmas season is an excuse to eat a lot.

[kentauros]

13. My favorite is the one that's a paid day off.

[IrishEyes]

15. True

Any day away from work is a good holiday.

[bigwillq]

14. Halloween

Thanksgiving
Fourth Of July

In that Order.

[IrishEyes]

17. Fourth of July is great

You can eat cookout on a sunny summer day and then watch fireworks. You can celebrate with friends, family or by yourself. Plus it is the only paid day off from work for me since May and until September.

[Arugula Latte]

16. Halloween, hands down. Fun, costumes, no presents, booze, candy, & it pisses off fundies.

Love it.

[IrishEyes]

19. Halloween is great

I love an excuse to wear a costume and eat lots of candy. I enjoy watching horror movies and mysteries around halloween. It always fun to piss off the far right.

[Populist_Prole]

18. Thanksgiving

By it's nature it seems to be the least commercialized.

It's during my favorite time of year ( fall / late fall )

Given the right company, it's the pleasant way to have nice dinner, conversation with friends/family reunions.

[IrishEyes]

20. I love fall

The leaves change colors. Kids go back to school. There is Halloween and Thanksgiving. There are lots of pumpkin flavored foods and drinks. The weather is cooled off from summer but not cold yet.

[CrawlingChaos]

21. HALLOWEEN is the only correct answer

It is the only completely fun holiday. All the other big ones have drudgery and stress attached to them. Halloween is the perfect day.

I'm actually quite obsessed with Halloween. It's never really not Halloween at my house. I have an open coffin in my living room right now. I have one room where it's totally Halloween, 365 days a year.

I mark the start of Halloween season as July 5th. This is when I start to escalate my preparations (and it helps me get through the miserable hot summer, which I hate). By September I start bringing the really morbid shit out of mothballs.

The whole month of October is glorious for me. I go on a all horror diet - I read and watch horror only. Then November comes and I get the blues because I have to wait whole big long year before I get to do it again. I usually leave my stuff up through Xmas and put Santa hats on all my skeletons and ghouls. Christmas lends itself quite naturally to the macabre, actually (which is why it's my second favorite holiday).

So yeah, Halloween. Only 170 days to go...

[Art_from_Ark]

25. You wouldn't happen to live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, would you?

[CrawlingChaos]

31. I have a slight preference for 0001 Cemetery Lane

But I'd be thrilled with either one.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. No fans of Festivus Day - Dec. 23rd?

If it's not a real holiday and only a sitcom invention, it should be.

[rurallib]

23. 1) Christmas 2) Halloween 3) July 4th

the rest are pretty much nothing to us.

Love all the stories and costumes and tradition of those 3.

[mucifer]

24. Passover celebrating freedom from slavery

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

26. Thanksgiving.

And also the Battle of Bennington Day because it is on my birthday, August 16th. It was the only Revolutionary War battle fought in Vermont and is a state holiday there. I wouldn't mind having my birthday off from work, but I live in Texas.

[MrScorpio]

27. Halloween. nt

[KMOD]

28. Thanksgiving.

I love it.

[melman]

29. I really don't like any of them

They all remind me of the passing time.

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Thanksgiving.

[trueblue2007]

32. CHRISTMAS

[pinboy3niner]

33. Here Come the Martians Day

It's not very big, but only because I haven't told anybody about it yet.

[lovemydog]

35. I hope they're really cool.

Like they do free stand-up comedy and throw fun parties.

[pinboy3niner]

36. I think they're more into crushing planets, seeing enemies driven before them...

...and hearing the lamentations of their women.

Apart from that, they're really a fun bunch.

[lovemydog]

34. Thanksgiving.

The food!

[ghostsinthemachine]

37. Jerry Week....

In and around the birth of Jerry Garcia. (august 1) two weekends full of great shows, great music and celebration of Jerry and the Grateful Dead.