Birthday Party - The Second Coming

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As you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.

However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!

The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.

Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)

Comments

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I know someone has put up this particular comment already, but I can't find it, and I like the reply, so I'm re-posting it again. Consdiering taht quite a few comments have gone irreparably lost, I vindicate the right to have some doubles. So there! *g*

I said on October 6:

I know it isn't really a party topic, but since we're already sharing, I thought I'd point out that October 6 is a day of tragic historic ignificance for Hungarian people. It is the memory day of the 13 martyrs of Arad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13_Martyrs_of_Arad). It is a national holiday if it doesn't fall on a Saturday anyway, and we all learn to recite those 13 names by heart at school.

Yeah, we're a strange people. We can celebrate our defeats and tragedies most splendidly. We still haven't quite figure out how to celebrate the *good* things, though.

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rcfinch said:

It's good to have such traditions, and not forgetting defeats seems a sign of strength to me.

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jenn_calaelen said:

That is very interesting.

Here almost everything seems to get forgotten - good and bad - it is very
depressing to find out how little general people know about our history...