Talk:Mother's Day (United States)/Archive 1

Dead or alive?

"Tradition calls for the wearing of roses or carnations on Mother's Day — a red one if one's mother is alive, white if she has died, pink if one is not certain, and yellow if you killed her." I have never heard of this before, especially the part about a pink flower. Source?

You're right. I have NEVER EVER even heard that, let alone witnessed it. I'll search the internet for more information on that, but if I don't find anything I'm going to delete it. Cereal box conspiracy 00:51, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

--208.255.68.2 22:26, 11 May 2006 (UTC)This is an old tradition I remember from my childhood (I'm 60 now). I have never heard of the pink flower, but I would presume the not knowing if your mother is living or deceased would be a result of family separation or adoption...something along those lines.

It is correct. Originally Anna Jarvis called for wearing a white carnation, but at least as early as 1913 a florist's ad in the Boston Globe calls for "bright flowers for mother living. White flowers for mother's memory." Dpbsmith (talk) 15:39, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

The pink flower remark was vandalism, like a lot has occurred on this page the last few days (hence, the protection). If you look at the history, I believe you'll find it was changed along with another edit which was more clearly vandalist (although I can’t be bothered to find it now). Grauw 11:30, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure, I've heard that a pink carnation means something. If anything would could be called incorrect, I'd say it was the part about yellow meaning that you killed your mother.Amethystskye 01:59, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

"...and yellow if you killed her."

And no one found this odd?

-G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.32.141.8 (talk) 07:43, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Big Cookie

I changed the cookie caption. "Baking a cookie is one way to show a mother how much she is appreciated" is not technically false, but it implies that baking a cookie is particularly associated with mothers day, like a Christmas tree around Christmas or easter eggs on easter. Its more like jewelry on Christmas or loli pops on easter. Sure, both of these things would be appropriate for their respective holidays, but they are not the essence of the holidays in the way that Christmas tree and easter eggs are. Caption now reads: This cookie shows a mother how much she is appreciated on Mother's Day. --Jon in California 5 May 2007 (LOVES HIS MOTHER!!)

Cookie or Cake?

As noted in the Wikimedia Commons discussion for the image, the photo is of a giant decorated cookie, not a cake. 65.96.156.231 19:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure it's actually a cookie? It could be a cake, and it's labeled by the person who took it as a cake... 165.82.109.44 22:20, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

It's definitely a large cookie.

i agree it does look like a large cookie

I believe it’s just yet another harmful edit by the vandalist that’s messing with this page all the time the last few days. I have reverted it earlier. And no, I don’t think it looks like a ‘large cookie’, and the picture’s description (and file name) clearly say that it is a cake. If you disagree for a good reason, please log in with a user name and change it back (including in the image’s description). Grauw 11:30, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Mothers' Day or Mother's Day ??

Seems to me like its a day for all mothers (Mothers' Day). But maybe the creator of the holliday called it Mother's Day since it was just for her mother (and not her grandmother or any other mother in the world). I do not know but if it were up to a vote I would go with the first punctuation. Does anyone know for a fact? --Jon in California 5 May 2007

Mother's Day, a day for all mothers.

NASCAR??? WTF???

There's a section titled "Miscellaneous" that might as well be titled "NASCAR," since that's all the section actually deals with. The assertion is made, and I quote "By tradition, however, America's most popular summer sport{fact}, NASCAR's Sprint Cup series, stages no events for that Sunday or Easter." First of all, I thought "America's favorite summer sport" was baseball - with or without the steroids? Second, superlatives, such as "most," "least," "worst", "best", etc, are red flags for straying from NPOV. Second, if something's going to be cited as "America's most popular summer sport," it ought to be cited.

Sorry for the rant. Deleting the section in its entirety. Mtiffany71 (talk) 09:10, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

NASCAR WTF

I did not see a thing in the article that talks about nascar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.159.148.214 (talk) 21:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

pink and yellow roses wtf

I mean why why would they say "yellow if you killed her" come on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.159.148.214 (talk) 21:13, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

date wrong?

mothers day is the 10th of may 2009 not the 3rd.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.134.209.225 (talk) 11:24, 10 May 2009 (UTC)