I like National Chicken Wing Day…although I’d hate for anyone to get upset about fowl-ocide or debate over the discovery of chicken wings. It could cause a whole “Anchor Bar versus Duffs” thing… 
I think we should cancel this day, the only people who are celebrating are government employee. I would like to have my mail on this day!
Good Friday is a holiday in Louisuana.
Good Friday is a holiday in other states as well. Our state colleges have it off.
My alma mater had two days off in October, one used to be Columbus Day, but they’ve switched it to the Thursday and Friday before. Nice time to go to Florida 
We should move this lovely “holiday” to Monday and let everyone except retailers to have a day off! They would not mind - they keep their stores open anyway:
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/handbag-day/
Shopping is patriotic!!!
I had a test one year on Good Friday. I got up at 4:30, left my dorm room and went to the lobby so as not to disturb my roommate, and got to the library when it opened for continued cramming. After my exam, I came back to my room to collapse, only to have my mother call me, angrily wanting to know where the hell I was at 7 in the morning on a holiday (she’d called me). Aside from the fact that her insinuations were out of line, I was incredibly annoyed to not be believed when I told her I’d had an exam and that NO, we did not have the day off.
Boy, was I huffy. Of course, if we’d had a holiday, I wouldn’t have been there either, as I would’ve stayed over at my BF’s much nicer pad, but that’s neither here nor there. 
To be clear about my post, though now this is sidetracked into days people get off, the celebration of Columbus Day has nothing to do with Christopher Columbus, but with the beginning of settlement of the New World. Which is why I put the words New World in my last post. The idea that it should be named “Indigenous Peoples Day” or some other rot does nothing to eliminate what happened and denigrates the existence of our nation and indeed of all the nations in the Americas.
I note the holiday also has become important to Italian-Americans, but not being Italian-American I can’t speak to that.
What about the following names:
Columbia University (in the city of New York)
Columbia College
District of Columbia
República de Colombia
many city names
many company names
67: Those names aren't all directly related to Christopher Columbus—they come from Columbia, used as a personification of the Americas or the United States, depending. Yes, that comes from Columbus, but there's a degree of separation.
Personally, I think naming a building after someone ( leaving aside what dfb said), is a much smaller cookie compared to a freaking day of celebration.
Maybe we should call it “Vespucci Day”, given that America was named after Amerigo Vespucci. Would also keep it Italian flavored, which would please those who care about such things (I might be half Italian, but I don’t care about the holiday, especially since I have never had it off:)
Musicprnt, your post reminds me of a question I’ve had for a while. (Sorry for further sidetracking.)
We don’t call it Christopher Day. Why do we call our continent America instead of Vespucci?
The name comes from a choice, perhaps but maybe not a mistake. In 1507, a map came out that listed the continent of S. America as “America”. The choice was a version of Americus, which was the Latin version of Amerigo, and was accompanied by a version of the supposed voyages of Vespucci. The map later erased the name but it stuck because “Terra Incognito” isn’t catchy.
There are other examples. A small favorite is that Nome was originally the question “Name?” on a map that was misread.
Just to react: The Nome/Name story is widely believed, and may in fact be true—but no evidence for it appears anywhere until about 50 years after Nome’s name was made official, which makes it a bit suspect in my mind.
Missypie, I am in Illinois. And most people here don’t know who Casimir Pulaski was. I was from Western NY originally and I read up on him. I figure if you are taking a day off in his name, you should know who he was.
When I see the name Pulaski, I think of furniture. I didn’t know he was a historical figure.
People in NJ know the name well (even if they don’t know who Count Pulaski was), thanks to the Pulaski Skyway, which figures in popular culture as this ugly pile of steel that runs above a gigantic swamp/garbage dump, famous for a tire fire that burned for some ridiculous number of years, and political intrigue, and otherwise is very doubtful as a fitting tribute to the good count.
^I would call it a magnificent piece of engineering sculpture that runs over one of my favorite places on Earth (the Hackensack Meadowlands), so YMMV.
Awful analogy. the reason for naming a holiday for the first one is that he supposedly “discovered America.” the second has holidays for quite different reason, I believe. I call false equivalency.
How about we replace Columbus day with National Exercise Day!