1 May—Comrade Putrid probably isn’t celebrating May Day at one of his palatial dachas. Back in the good old days of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1 May, International Workers’ Day, was celebrated with parades in cities like Moscow and Kyiv, then spelled Kiev.

Putrid is doing his damnedest to bring back the good old days of the USSR, as he’s made clear, but he hasn’t had much luck so far in Ukraine. That’s despite Donald Trump’s help, of course, as well as Joe Biden’s and NATO’s and the UN’s and you name the others—who have been effectively aiding and abetting Putrid’s ambitious megalomaniacal machinations by limiting aid to Ukraine.

Nowadays, in Russia, May Day is officially called the Day of Spring and Labor. And we don’t care how it’s celebrated.

So much for Putrid and Russia. Everybody knows that “mayday” is an international distress signal used in voice communications for life-threatening situations. But did you know that it’s supposed to be repeated three times in a row so that it’s not mistaken for anything else?

“Mayday” is the brainchild of Frederick Mockford, a radio officer at Croydon Aerodrome in London. In the early 1920s, he was charged with coming up with a word easily understood by all pilots and ground personnel to indicate distress and emergency. Most of the air traffic Fred handled was between Croydon and Le Bourget in Paris, and he knew at least a bit of French.

So evidently it occurred to him that “m’aidez” (French for “help me”) and “mayday” (English for May Day) sounded alike. Thus, “mayday mayday mayday” was adopted by the International Radio Telegraph Convention in 1927. (Sure, telegraphers were still using . . . – – – . . . , but that’s another story.)

It must be noted that “m’aider” may also be considered an abbreviated form of “venez m’aider”, which means “come, help me.”

Don’t forget that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been maydaying his alleged allies since before Putrid’s Russian troops invaded his country . . .