Mayday! Mayday!

[mavenu]

I wonder why it's May Day?

The distress call . . . Why do you say "May Day"? It's only a Bank Holiday.

Why not Shrove Tuesday?

Or Ascension Sunday?

"Ascension Sunday! Ascension Sunday! The fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost! The fifteenth Wednesday after Pentecost!"

-Rimmer, Red Dwarf