Happy Waitangi Day!

Amoeba BoyAmoeba Boy
edited July 19 in Events
Apparantly it's important to get on all my calendars but not important enough for people to know what it is.

Comments

  • HamelinHamelin
    edited February 2006
    I looked it up! It was most informative.
  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited February 2006
    Please enlighten those of us too lazy too look it up!
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited February 2006
    Never! That would require even more effort on my part.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited February 2006
    *looks up* How informative.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited February 2006
    Well I'm not falling for it. You just wanna make me look it up and then it'll be all lame and uninformative and you'll jump out and yell "HA!". You can't trick me......
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    :quickly goes to look it up:


    EDIT: How informative.
  • KhanFusionKhanFusion
    edited February 2006
    As the legend goes....

    Once there was a girl named Angela, nicknamed "Angie" by her friends and relatives, who had a deep love of swimming in the ocean. She loved swimming in the ocean so much, that she would occasionally be reckless in her aquatic endeavors. One day, she ate too much potato salad for lunch, and did not heed the warnings of her mother to wait 15 minutes before getting into the water. Sadly, she drowned, but her mother petitioned the government of Canada to commemorate Angie's tragic demise... as a day of safety instruction. Since then, "Wait Angie" day has been somberly celebrated everywhere but the US, where kids are free to be reckless and drown happily.

    The End.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited February 2006
    From Wikipedia:
    The Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) was signed on February 6, 1840 in a marquee erected in the grounds of James Busby's house at Waitangi by representatives of the British Crown, the chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand, and other Māori tribal leaders. The Treaty made New Zealand a British colony and is generally considered the founding document of New Zealand as a nation. Waitangi Day is the annual celebration of the signing, and is New Zealand's national holiday.
  • KhanFusionKhanFusion
    edited February 2006
    That's far less interesting than my version, and you know it.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited February 2006
    It really is.

    If it's any consolation I'm sure some Kiwis have drowned on Waitangi day.
  • CytrollCytroll
    edited February 2006
    I'm sure we could also get someone to make sure some Kiwis drown next year on Waitangi day.

    You know to make it all official and stuff.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited February 2006
    But kiwis are so darn cute.

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