May 1st vs First Monday in September

when everyone screams at the confection

May 1st - though I have been lead to believe its connotations are a wee bit socialist for the US of A. Oddly known as May Day - it doesn't need to be known as Labor/Labour Day to be used as the international day of workers....

I would chose September 1st due to May 1st connotations with Maypoles & Maurice dancing.

Maurice dancers = Morris dancers who use lacy hankies?

May 1st because it is my birthday and I am best.

Maypoles are quite cool. Loads of people enclosing a big phallic symbol by means of dancing around it can't be all bad. OTOH Morris dancing generally sucks but I was rather entertained by the incompetence of some busking morris men who I saw dancing outside the Fitzroy one night last August.

Since I don't understand the point of Labor Day, I'd say May 1 because it's more cheerful...but if we celebrated in May I'd be back in school right now. They are tied.

So you think that's reason enough to change it, Pete?

I like May Day and find it interesting *precisely because* it has so much left-wing history yet its cultural signifiers have often been misappropriated by the political right: I would not see that as reason to give up on it. Some years ago (1993, I think) it had to be explained to me that it had socialist resonances when I asked why the Tories wanted to abolish it (their idea was to scrap it in favour of a new - shudder - "Trafalgar Day" Bank Holiday in the autumn: it was also a means of the Tories showing their anti-European streak because virtually every EU country has May Day as a holiday, but they had other piffling little issues such as a dwindling majority and complete civil war within the party to deal with so thankfully it never came about).