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>>In UK public holidays are called "Bank Holidays". Perhaps it was banks that standardized the holidays. Trouble is, they don't stop charging us interest on a bank holiday :-)
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>Thank you for that statement. I buy a specific type of calendar each year which has the theme of railroads in the United States. It is printed here and has many entries “UK Bank Holiday”. Perhaps the owner of the company is from the UK? :)
Aye, our diaries have "Holiday USA/Canada" on certain days, e.g. Labour Day (can't bring myself round to dropping the "u"), Thanksgiving.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
