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[Nabubrush]

Your are a kind, benevolent and wonrous mayor, and are deserving of high praise.

[AugustWest]

I'm as old as the Super Bowl.  You know, XLI.

[wombat]

I much prefer to show and share my love when it feels right, and I don't really like being arbitrarily force to spend time with people I don't care for just because of the date and my biological links to the day. 

Of course! That's why - Halloween!

[pmcd9]

I celebrate Super Bowl Sunday as my alternate birthday.  I was born the day of Super Bowl IV.  Therefore this year I turned XXXVII.

Superbowl VII I think was on my birthday.  It is a couple of weeks later each year now.

[jaydub]

Halloween, hands down.  I love that time of year - with the world remembering the heat of summer, but crisp winds and the first hints of rain.  The quasi-neo-celticness of carving gourds to scare the demons coming through the veil at Samhain, my neighbors working on their papier mache skulls for Dia de Los Muertos, kids in costumes and giving out candy.  Decorating macabre.  Its wonderful.

Also, the lack of pressure regarding gifts.

Which, by the way, is seriously ameliorated by drawing names from a hat at Thanksgiving, if you have a large family (as I do).  Christmas has pinched much less the last few years, and the recipient of my focussed giving has had a cooler present than I would otherwise have managed (due to dilution of attention).

I hate hallmark holidays, but do acknowledge Mothers/Fathers Day with a phone call.  I try to make every day an act of appreciation for love, parents, grandparents (had I any remaining) etc.

[AugustWest]

Easter is probably my favorite holiday, mostly because I love this time of year so much.  Things are green and flowery and being reborn.  There's so much life everywhere.  It's easy to like.

Thanksgiving is a favorite too.  Good food to cook and to eat, family, fall...  It's a good vibe.

Finally, December 23.  I'm good with Christmas in general for many of the reasons expressed herein already.  But for some reason 12/23 has always resonated with me.  For one thing we moved into both of our last two houses on rainy December 23d's. 

But it goes way back farther than that. 

When I was a kid, Christmas Eve was a family day.  School was out and festivities were peaking.  Christmas Eve Eve was a different kind of day.  It was a day for sharing the season with the world at large.  I used to deliver jars of homemade pickles to my Grandmother's neighbors on the 23d.  I'd ride around with my Dad and visit clients, friends or significant acquaintences. 

It was close enough to Christmas to fully focus you on the season, but it was sufficiently removed so that you weren't completely wrapped up in family celebrations.

[Nabubrush]

Finally, December 23.  I'm good with Christmas in general for many of the reasons expressed herein already.  But for some reason 12/23 has always resonated with me.  For one thing we moved into both of our last two houses on rainy December 23d's. 

Did you know they filmed your biography? Unfortunately it stars Jim Carrey. I don't think it turns out very well, either.

[chuanoplast]

Chinese New Year is my favorite holiday, hands down. For an entire week or so, all my family does is cook a lot of food, eat a lot of food, visit other people and eat their food, and give money to the people younger than thirty. It's better than Christmas because I don't have to dish out any money, my fake relatives come to visit and we go to visit them, and did I mention the food?

Thanksgiving is also fun because my dad bought a huge grill that looks like a giant green funeral urn and it looks like he's trying to cremate the turkey.

[Nabubrush]

[obligatory]My number three would probably be Festivus.[/obligatory]

[KeithHernandez]

Isn't the 23rd Festivus?

Also, my favorite is Thanksgiving.  B-Days suck, on Christmas my mom totally gives me too much and I feel like an asshole/ spoiled, but on Thanksgiving we just eat and talk and drink.  Plus, that is the only time all year that redneck, church basement green bean casserole makes its way into my life.

[jaydub]

that is the only time all year that redneck, church basement green bean casserole makes its way into my life.

Evidently you consider this a good thing.

[KeithHernandez]

I certainly do.

That and corn casserole make Thanksgiving what it is.

[Teatime]

Did you know they filmed your biography? Unfortunately it stars Jim Carrey. I don't think it turns out very well, either.

Apocryphal story involving The Number 23:

The time: Unknown
The place: John Q. College Movie Theatre (UCSD area)
The film: 300

The movie begins. People settle down, conversations stop. Moments later, a woman stands.

WOMAN: (Stands) Shit. I came to watch The Number 23. This isn't The Number 23.
MAN (seated behind Woman): (Stands) No. THIS. IS. SPARTA! (kicks WOMAN in chest, she falls onto chairs)

Fade to black, sounds of applause and budding lawsuits.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Yea, shes gonna owe so much money for damaging that guy's foot. I mean, who knows if he'll ever walk again. Think of the children.

[Golfhaus]

I'm pretty anti-holiday for the most part. I strongly dislike Christmas. I hate shopping for other people (I barely tolerate shopping for myself most of the time). I'm always told, "It's not about the gift, but about the thought you put into it," and people have a hard time realizing that THE THOUGHT I PUT INTO IT IS THE PART I DON'T LIKE. I'm really bad at figuring out what people like and would be happy to receive. My wife is for the most part understanding, but thinks I can/expects me to get over it by the time we start popping out kids. That's gonna be the rough part of the year in the Haushold.

My "favorite" holidays... probably Easter (because as a non-Christian I'm kinda off the hook as far as actually having to DO anything). Thanksgiving has become a favorite too. I'm in the airline industry, and got to know a lot of people who would have rather been with their loved ones, but couldn't get there on account of it being the busiest travel time of the year. So I started inviting them to my place. Ten people hanging out with each other so they wouldn't have to be alone turns out to be a pretty good time.

I also throw an annual Super Bowl party. If the Super Bowl gets any bigger, it'll be named a federal holiday, and I see little reason why it shouldn't already be.