3rd March 2003, 1:54 PM
It was originally a religious holiday, but for a different religion. It's meaning has totally changed over the years, but hey so what? Christians are like the Borg sometimes. We absorb other culture's uniqueness into our own.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)