Happy fourth!
 

...for whoever celebrates it.

Have a nice bbq and lots of beer together with your family and friends.

Don't drink and drive!

And don't put firecrackers in each-other's pants, like some idiots did here some time ago during the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_Krathong"]Loi Krathong[/URL] festival.


Edit: and for mod colleagues: Don't touch the threads in my blog! (i.e. moving them into some obscure thread, like it happened with May 4th one).

Yes indeed.

Happy [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Day_%28Philippines%29]Republic Day[/url] to everyone.

Also happy [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Day_%28Rwanda%29]Liberaton Day[/url] to everyone.

And ... umm ... I can't think of anything else happening on 4th July, so I guess that is the entire list.

Have a good one.

[QUOTE=retina;582595]
And ... umm ... I can't think of anything else happening on 4th July, so I guess that is the entire list.

Have a good one.[/QUOTE]

It's on this day 25 years ago that the Will Smith saved us from the Aliens

[QUOTE=petrw1;582599]It's on this day 25 years ago that the Will Smith saved us from the Aliens[/QUOTE]

With a computer virus!

What they didn't tell you is that the virus used against the aliens will soon destroy us all.

[QUOTE=slandrum;582603]With a computer virus![/QUOTE] written by Jeff Goldblum for an architecture no human had ever encountered before (outside area 51). But it was Randy Quaid that showed how to disable/destroy the attacking alien ships.

Haha, you guys are gorgeous. Love you all.

Today (July 5th) me and me'darling celebrate 37 years of knowing each other. A nice prime number. We met on July 5th, 1984, and have been together about 11 years before getting married. It is our family's biggest yearly celebration (kids' birthdays come second since they left us, when they were living with us, their birthdays were always first, haha. Our birthdays always came third, our marriage day fourth and out wedding day fifth - this top excludes the other common celebrations like Christmas, Easter, etc.)

[QUOTE=kriesel;582605][QUOTE=slandrum;582603]With a computer virus![/QUOTE]written by Jeff Goldblum for an architecture no human had ever encountered before (outside area 51). But it was Randy Quaid that showed how to disable/destroy the attacking alien ships.[/QUOTE][quote=Russell Casse]Ha-ha-ha! Hello, boys! I'm BAAAAAACK![/quote]

Unfortunately, it seems that the [strike]evil aliens[/strike] producers adopted that line. There was an execrable sequel that came out in 2016, 20 years after the original.

Even more unfortunately, it seems that the sequel grossed over twice its reported production cost, though less than half what the original grossed.

[QUOTE=LaurV;582609]our marriage day fourth and out wedding day fifth[/QUOTE]Please explain the difference between those two items. And I see that you are out.

[QUOTE=LaurV;582609]Haha, you guys are gorgeous. Love you all.

Today (July 5th) me and me'darling celebrate 37 years of knowing each other. A nice prime number. We met on July 5th, 1984, and have been together about 11 years before getting married. It is our family's biggest yearly celebration (kids' birthdays come second since they left us, when they were living with us, their birthdays were always first, haha. Our birthdays always came third, our marriage day fourth and out wedding day fifth - this top excludes the other common celebrations like Christmas, Easter, etc.)[/QUOTE]In the usual English usage, a "wedding" is a ceremony during which a marriage is "solemnized" (made a "public act"), so the marriage begins during or after the wedding. Here in the good ol' USA, a marriage can be solemnized by a Justice of the Peace (JP) without much ceremony.

Contrary to persistent legend, ships' captains (masters) are [i]not[/i] authorized, [i]ex officio[/i], to solemnize marriages. However, if a marriage is solemnized aboard ship, the ship's master may become the [i]registrar[/i] of the marriage.

I know a few couples that got married quietly, then some time later had a public wedding to celebrate the marriage. In one case the couple had eloped and concealed from one set of parents that they had been married for a couple of years before deciding to have a "real" wedding.

I can't speak to LaurV's circumstances.

[QUOTE=slandrum;582666]I know a few couples that got married quietly, then some time later had a public wedding to celebrate the marriage.[/QUOTE]Some friends from 2 different countries got civilly married in one spouse's country (because of that country's laws). Then a bit later they had their "real" church based wedding in the other spouse's home country (only after this one did they 'act married'). Then they came back to the first country for a reception. Since then they have lived in 3 countries in 4 different stints.

A young couple that I know was slated to get married in May 2020 (I have the invite still hanging up). They scrambled to figure out what to do. I told them about the idea of a simple one, then later a ceremony for everyone. They did a simple ceremony in woods that was streamed. The father of the groom officiated and the mother of the groom and father of the bride (who did the video work) were witnesses.

This is just a wild guess, but maybe LaurV was talking about the engagement day and the wedding day.

[QUOTE=slandrum;582666]<snip>In one case the couple had eloped and concealed from one set of parents that they had been married for a couple of years before deciding to have a "real" wedding.
<snip>[/QUOTE]This reminds me of a couple... The woman was from a far country, and her parents (especially her mother) did not approve of her long-term relationship with an American man. They finally decided to get married without telling her parents - at least, not right away. But after two years, they finally did. Her mother's immediate reaction was, "It won't last six months!"

We got married (official, sign the papers, small family party, close friends) in October but had the wedding (religious, big party "my big fat greek wedding" style, a hundred people getting totally drunk and sleeping under the tables) in May next year. Usually, in my country (and orthodox religion) people do all in the same time, go to the city hall, go to the church (neither the civil officer, nor the priest, will come to your house, and the priest will not officiate any ceremony unless the couple is legally married first), with all the "audience" behind of them, preferably late autumn (because of the wine, you know? :razz:), but our situation was particular, I was already in uni, the uni was 45km away in the big city, I was living in campus and going home only in weekends, while she was living with her parents in my/our home town. When she got into her medical school in the same city, we decided to live together instead of paying accomodation two times - money partially supported by the parents - we were already "together" for many years if you can call it so, except for the 45 km separating us, hihi, but the parents on both side (old style) didn't accept that we live together unless we do it "legally". You know, "what the people will say?"... That's the story. We were not prepared for wedding that early autumn (schools start in September), so we only went to city hall and signed the papers, thinking we'll do the wedding later in the autumn, but the school, as well as the "events" in the country at the time, didn't really let us. So, my parents in law had to save the wine till May (they were making one of the best wine I ever drank, own harvest).
There was nothing like "engagement" day between us, the engagement was many years earlier, on July 5th, when we saw each other for the first time. (well, not realy, haha, but we like to believe it was love at first sight).

Edit: And to avoid any comments, no, it was not "in hurry", our daughter (the only child) was born about 6 years later :razz: