Labour Day

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I’ve always liked the idea of Labour Day, the day devoted to not laboring. The holiday was a consequence of the Canadian government attempting to crush a print shop worker strike in 1872. Since print workers had the ability to produce vast quantities of leaflets, the prime minister was shocked to discover ten thousand angry protesters sitting on

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[sofiaagapao]

WTF is "spumoni"???? LOL

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Oh dear... Of all the obscure references, the confusing one was spumoni ice cream?

Spumoni is a desert made with ice cream and toasted nuts. Its the kind of obscure desert that they used to serve in hospitals than no one ever makes before. Like canned pineapple floating in Jello served on a metal saucer.

Huey "The Kingfish" Long was a rabble rousing governor of Louisiana before he was shot in 1932. Roosevelt called him 'the most dangerous men in America.'

The Internationale was the revolutionary theme song written in response to the fall of the Paris Commune (remember the barricade scene in Le Miz?)

The black flags was an anarchist symbol.

I guess I miss the imagery of the old time revolutionaries. Passionate young nobles defending the barricades in Paris, sprouting lofty ideals of justice while wearing the most ridiculous hats. Chain smoking marxist girls in black pencil pants and AK47s.

Romantic... kinda like pirates were romantic.

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I used to get spumoni ice cream from this nifty Italian restaurant near where my parents live. I don't think it had nuts on it... But it was good.