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2008-06-23, 06:02 AM
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Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless
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Happy Midsummer!
Happy Midsummer everyone!
Today is the day when the day is longest and the night is shortest in whole year - over here it gets celebrated by firing up huge campfires, drinking lots of beer, eating cheese and having unconditional sex  Something like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8I5BGsK5ZAU   |
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2008-06-23, 06:19 AM
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Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip!
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I set off fireworks. Fireworks always seem perfect for the solstice.
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2008-06-23, 08:43 AM
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The Original Greenguy (Est'd 1996) & AVN HOF Member - I Crop Pics For Thumbs In My Sleep
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Sparky said that the longest day of the year was the 20th and he's won the award for "Most Truth Telling Morning Thread Poster With A Hand Drawn Avatar" 16 months in a row, so I think you might be mistaken!
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2008-06-23, 08:47 AM
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Subversive filth of the hedonistic decadent West
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2008-06-23, 09:32 AM
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Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless
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It used to be longest day of the year, as it says in Wiki: Solstitial celebrations still centre upon 24 June, which is no longer the longest day of the year. The difference between the Julian calendar year (365.2500 days) and the tropical year (365.2422 days) moved the day associated with the actual astronomical solstice forward approximately three days every four centuries, until Pope Gregory XIII changed the calendar bringing the solstice to around 21 June. In the Gregorian calendar, the solstice does shift, but in the long term it moves only about one day in 3000 years. and Midsummer may simply refer to the period of time centered upon the summer solstice, but more often refers to specific European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice, or that take place on the 24th of June and the preceding evening. So, basically its the damn calendar that is wrong  |
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