4 July this year
Was on the top deck of a bus back from the tennis at Wimbledon.
We had almost the whole bus to ourselves except for a friendly American cabin crew lady who hailed from the "gee wilickers you shur are purdy" southern states and asked my girlfriend and I, "do y'all celebrate the 4th July over here" at which point I asked if she knew why it was called "Independence" day.
( iodax, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 10:21, 7 replies)

It's to commemorate Will Smith saving the world from an alien invasion.
Only America celebrates it because the rest of the world are terrible racists.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 11:06, closed)

I love this
I am going to use it if the occasion arises in future.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 0:04, closed)

"Why yes we do. We celebrate it by stoning a token Traitorous American."

( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 11:57, closed)

I had the opposite
Living in Belgium, my (english) sister in law asked me why Belgians didn't celebrate Guy Fawkes Night.
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 14:02, closed)

I think you'll find it's "July fourth"

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 14:22, closed)

During my year abroad from uni
I spent the first half of the year in France, and it being 1994 the bookshops were full of 50th anniversary histories of D-Day, or Jour-J as it was known to the locals.

Spool forwards a few months and I'm in Germany, when I mention this to my German roommate and wonder aloud if in German it would be T-Tag.

"No" he said, "we called that 'Invasion day'"

Oh.
(GoodLord doesn't have time for sigs., Tue 4 Sep 2012, 7:44, closed)

Brilliant
I wish replies could win QOTW
(Smale is stuffed, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:21, closed)