Oh that's right, today's Earth Day

[sniffnoy]

There ought to be a Mars Day. A few people at school suggested a Moon Day, but that's just stupid, IMO. Who cares about the moon?

(And don't say that every Monday is Moon Day! (Or that every Tuesday is Mars Day, especially since in English it's named after Tyr and not Mars anyway. Plus I'd say there's a significant difference between Mars the god and Mars the planet.) I mean, I suppose it is, but nobody celebrates it.)

Comments

[ashleyisachild.livejournal.com]

I agree with your statements.
But I think that in order for there to be a Mars day, there has to be a widely-celebrated Mars-related event first. I don't think anything interesting enough has happened yet, so maybe not until humans walk on Mars, which they may never do, so when did manmade items first land on Mars?

[kalo-khei.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on taking over that planet. And convert it into a gigantic fortress-town-thingy. My first action will be to vaporize Texas.

[ahhhdontpokeme.livejournal.com]

But what about Fergie??? ... Oh wait, never mind, he's invincible.

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

Tidal creatures care a great deal about the moon.

Okay, well, they don't, but they should.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Werewolves care about the moon, I suppose, but I don't think they need to create a special Moon Day.

[toreun.livejournal.com]

Maybe they have a special Moon Day that we just don't know about!

[flyingemu.livejournal.com]

Pluto is cooler.

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

Really. If you give the Werewolves a holiday, the Vampires will want one of their own, plus a national awareness week focused on the dangers of silver crosses and wooden stakes. And pretty soon every other Monday is dedicated to some Lesser Undead special interest group or another.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Oh c'mon, Pluto's not even a planet. *g*

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Lesser Undead? Is that living, dead, undead, dead again, undead again? (Or perhaps even more iterations?)

Lesser Antilles?

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

I was thinking Lesser Undead more in the gaming sense -- skeletons, zombies, ghouls et al. as opposed to liches and whatnot. What you're describing is more characteristic of the recidivist undead, or, worse still, the codependent undead.

Re: Lesser Antilles?

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Well I'd hardly consider them Lesser. I mean, at least they don't have stupid weaknesses like silver or stakes or religious symbols or garlic or fire...

Re: Lesser Antilles?

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

Making fun of the disabilities of others isn't a very noble or attractive trait, you know. And if John Kerry gets elected and signs the Undead With Vulnerabilities Act, it might very well become a federal crime.

And, hey, when it comes to vulnerabilities, I would rather take my chances as some sort of vampire than as a skeleton. Have you ever seen a movie where the skeletons withstood more than a whack or two with the sword/mace/pointed stick? I think even the French are more resilient on combat...

Re: Lesser Antilles?

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Hey, when it comes to *resilience*, the skeletons are great. They may go to pieces after only a few whacks, but do you know any other undead species that can *survive* going to pieces and reassemble itself? Skeletons are practially immortal! Well if they weren't undead they would be. Imremortal, perhaps?

Re: Lesser Antilles?

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

But... but... if they weren't undead they'd be, you know, a pile of bones. Which, I suppose, makes them technically imremortal, but still.

Re: Lesser Antilles?

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

No, I mean *when* undead, they're practically immortal (or imremortal). <enthusiastically> 'Cause they can reassemble themselves, see. </enthusiastically>