Off-beat Holidays - July

 Just a side note before the list: This is my third month listing holidays (see June is here and May is here ) and I am beginning to notice there are a boatload of days devoted to food!! There are at least 9 days devoted to food and drink in the month of July alone. And people say we Americans have weight issues??? No kidding!

1: Canada Day – Or as Americans tend to refer to them; the quiet neighbors to the north. As the rest of the world tends to sees it; the quiet and peaceful folks living above a college frat kegger.

1: International Chicken Wing Day – Buffalo, NY’s contribution to the appetizer menu

1: Second Half of The Year Day – Half-way through the year. Here’s to a better half (I hope)

1: U.S. Postage Stamp Day and Zip Code Day - Maybe these are a partial explanation for the term "going postal"??

1-3: Rosewell UFO Days: - Maybe this should be take a Martian to lunch day

2: I Forgot Day – I had a pithy comment for this day, but, I can’t quiet remember what it was

2: International Cherry Pit Spitting Day

2: International Day of Cooperatives – A United Nation’s recognized observance. “Cooperatives around the world celebrate the International Day of Cooperatives in many ways. Activities include: messages from the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the UN translated into local languages for worldwide distribution; news articles and radio programs publicizing the awareness of the day; fairs, exhibits, contes…” Yeah, now I know why I’ve never heard of it.

3: Compliment Your Mirror Day - If you do maybe your mirror will make your look like Bradley Cooper… or Shania Twain??

3: Stay Out Of The Sun Day – It’s July people, ain’t gonna happen!

4: Fourth of July or Independence Day - A day citizens of the United States celebrate by getting drunk and blowing shit up. Yeah!!

4: Independence From Meat Day – on a day celebrated by barbequing hot dogs and hamburgers?? REALLY???

4: Indivisible Day – Just imagine the possibilities… oh wait, I thought that said invisible... oh well

5: Earth at Aphelion

5: Bikini Day – YES!!!

6: Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day – I wonder who thought this up and what kind of sacrifices we should make gifts we should give to honor the overlords of the internet?

7: Chocolate Day – This just has to be a big day in Hershey PA

7: Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day

7: Tell The Truth Day – If you do this it's probably a good thing that the 7th is also Global Forgiveness Day

8: SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama) – Turn down the drama, turn up the comedy. The Three Stooges always make me laugh!

9: Rock And Roll Day – YEAH!!! ROCK ON!!! TURN IT UP!! Play some Aerosmith!

9: Bald In-Bald Out Day – we come into the world bald, naked and crying. I think I’m about half way to bald out…

9: Hop A Park Day - July is National Parks and Recreation Month. Visit a local or state park and see what’s going on in your area

10: Don't Step On A Bee Day – hell, this is EVERY day in my book.

10: Piña Colada Day – I’ll be busy this day. At the bar. Drinking a… well, you know

11:World Population Day - "Everyone Counts. Counting everyone is an integral part of ensuring that we take everyone into account…" Shut The Front Door! Sounds like government gobbledygook to me

11: International Town Criers Day – Hear Ye, Hear Ye!!

13: Embrace Your Geekness Day – Again, this is an everyday thing for me

13: Gruntled Workers Day – HA!! I love this! I’ve always known that unhappy workers could be called disgruntled, but, have often wondered if you could be called “gruntled” if you were happy! Cool! Now, on to disheveled and sheveled

15: Gummi Worm Day – yet another day celebrating the stuffing of one's face

16: Hot Dog Night and Hot Dog Night - a day for weiners everywhere. Wait, didn't he leave office?

16: Cow Appreciation Day – not if you’re making all beef frankfurters it ain’t

16: Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves Day – Well, I should have tossed out the could haves. And I could have, really, but, something told me I shouldn’t. So I didn’t, though I could have. Awww crap, my brain hurts!

16: Woodie Wagon Day – I saw woodie and got all excited. That was before I read the second word

17: National Ice Cream Day - (3rd Sunday) – I’ll take mint chocolate chip please

17: Wrong Way Corrigan Day – Wrong Way Corrigan was so infamous that the character Captain Peter “Wrong Way” Peachfuzz, the world's worst sailor was developed as a tribute of sorts in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

18: National Get Out of the Doghouse Day – yeah, if only I could

18: Global Hug Your Kid Day – We need a day for this? Seriously??

19: Flitch Day - (Note: Some also say it's always the 3rd Saturday)

20 : National Lollipop Day - I'm not gonna say it...

21: Get to Know Your Customers Day - (also January 20, April 21 and October 20) – if this was done every day, maybe so many businesses wouldn’t fail. I’m just sayin’…

21: Legal Drinking Age Day -  21 – Ironic, no???

22: National Penuche Fudge Day – Please, don’t tell my wife

22: Rat-catchers Day

22: Spooners (Spoonerism) Day - Have you ever meant to say “this is the fun part” and had it come out “this is the pun fart”?? Or watched a butterfly flutter by??

23: Gorgeous Grandma Day – This one is just too easy, so, I’ll leave well enough alone

23: Hot Enough For Ya Day – Yeah, and I’ll choke the first SOB that says it too

24: Cousins Day – another one that’s far too easy and better left alone.

24: National Day of the Cowboy – A day to protect and preserve our Western Heritage. So, hide your copy of “Broke Back Mountain”

24: National Drive-Thru Day – Drive thru tellers, drive thru restaurants, drive thru pharmacies, drive thru liquor stores. We Americans have gotten so lazy we’d do a drive through wedding if it were possible (and I’m sure it is)

24: Tell An Old Joke Day - A priest, a rabbi, a nun and a minister walk ito a bar. The bartender looks up and says "Is this some kind of  freakin' joke??"

24: Coffee Day – French vanilla please, just cream

25: Carousel Day or Merry-Go-Round Day – go take a spin

24: Parents' Day - (4th Sunday) Call your parents if they are still with you.

25: Thread the Needle Day - Note: This is a traditional church game played in the Spring. It really can be played anytime

25: Act Like a Caveman Day – Grab a club; thump your potential mate on the head. Drag him or her back to your cave.

26: Take Your Dog to Work Day – Really???

27: National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day

27: Barbie-in-a-blender Day - I always wanted to do this to my sister's dolls... maybe today is the day!!

27: Take Your Houseplant for A Walk Day: – Seriously??

27: Walk on Stilts Day – with your houseplants – or your daughter. Go on, mash it up… be daring!!

28: National Milk Chocolate Day and National Chili Dog Day - Cool!! Dinner and dessert!

29: Lasagna Day - Who doesn't like a good lasagna? 
29: Rain Day - I'm curious; if it rains on Rain Day, is there a rain date??

29: Lumberjack Day – “I’m a lumberjack and I’m okay, I sleep all night and I work all day! I cut down trees. I wear high heels, Suspendies, and a bra. I wish I'd been a girlie, Just like my dear mamaw”  Bless “Monty Python’s” twisted mind

 

29: National Talk in An Elevator Day – Go ahead, freak someone out and say something!

29: System Administrator Appreciation Day - (Last Friday)

30: Cheesecake Day - New York style, with strawberries

30: Father-In-Law Day - I’ve been a father-in-law for years and have never heard of this one.

30: Paddle for Perthes Disease Awareness Day  - Always last Saturday

Off-beat Holidays - June

June's List of Off-Beat Holidays

1: Dare Day - Dare Day is a day to challenge someone, and to do a dare yourself. Go on, I double dog dare ya

1: National Go Barefoot Day - Summertime is here - let those tootsies hang out

2: National Bubba Day - Celebrating everything Bubba. Be the Bubba in your family tree!

2: Leave the Office Early Day - This must be a day to mark Steve Carell’s leaving the TV show "The Office" early. ...

3: National Doughnut Day - Always the first Friday in June National Doughnut Day honors the Salvation Army "Lassies" of WWI. Maybe my local Dunkin’ will hook me up

3: Repeat Day (I said "Repeat Day") - Rather than sound like, I said rather than sound like Foghorn Leghorn, I think I’ll just have another doughnut

4: Applesauce Cake Day- The first of many food centered days this month

4: Do-Dah Day - Camptown ladies sing this song, do-dah do-dah, Camptown race tack five miles long…just milking the Foghorn Leghorn bit a little longer

4: Hug Your Cat Day – good luck with that one!

5: World Environment Day - World Environment Day focuses attention on important environmental issues. The theme for 2011 is Forests-Nature At Your Service

6: D-Day  - commemorates June 6, 1944, when Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy during World War II

6: National Gardening Exercise Day - Get out and exercise with your plants.

6: National Yo-Yo Day - Get out your Yo-Yo and impress your friends, family, and co-workers with your Yo-Yo skills.

7: National Chocolate Ice Cream Day  - `nuff said!

8: Best Friends Day - Remember, George Carlin said it best, “you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose; but you can’t pick your friends nose!”

8: World Ocean Day

9: Donald Duck Day – More here than I ever wanted to know about the original, “The Donald”

10: Nursing Assistants Day - First day of National Nursing Assistants Week

10: Ball Point Pen Day – grab your Bic and make a note of it

11: Hug Holiday - This special day was created by the "Hugs for Health Foundation". So go on, grab someone… NO! Not that way!!!

11: Corn on the Cob Day – Do you eat your corn on the cob across… or around? Awww shucks, just grab yourself an ear…

11: The Belmont Stakes – The third and final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. There won’t be a Triple Crown winner this year either. Affirmed (February 21, 1975 – January 12, 2001) was the eleventh and most recent Triple Crown winner in 1978

12: Red Rose Day - Buy some roses for someone special. Or, plant some in your yard.

12: Crowed Nest Awareness Day - As more adult children return to live at home, yeah, stop right there. I can and will change the locks! Better yet, I’ll get me one of them new fangled electronic locks and that’ll stop ya!

13: Sewing Machine Day - Okay, whatever

14: Flag Day - Did you Know? If you like to study flags, then you are a Vexillologist!14:

World Blood Donor Day – Rather than drinking a pint, I’m going to give a pint that day. Just think about it, okay?

14: Nature Photography Day - Promotes nature photography as a unique art form that also contributes to the preservation of the environment. `Cuz people are so great about packing out their trash??

15: Smile Power Day - ehhhhhhh… bite me.

16: Fresh Veggies Day  - Well, given a choice I’d opt for Fudge Day. Ironic they fall on the same day!

17: National Flip Flop Day – started five years ago by a smoothie joint, encouraging people to kick off summer, and their shoes, by wearing a pair of flip flops

18: Go Fishing Day – You don’t have to tell me twice

18: International Panic Day - Wait, whoa!! How come no one told me about this… WTF??? I gotta get ready… I’ll never be ready

18: National Hollerin’ Contest Day –Spivey’s Corner, North Carolina hosts National Hollerin' Contest Day the third Saturday in June. It is estimated 5,000-10,000 people will show up to enjoy the annual National Hollerin’ Contest. Ain’t that something to shout about

18: National Splurge Day - Oh yeah!! I’m gonna go get me something!

18: World Jugglers Day - Saturday closest to June 17th. So grab a chainsaw, a flaming baton and a bowling ball and have some fun

19: Father's Day … AND

*Garfield the Cat Day
*Juneteenth
*World Sickle Cell Day
*World Sauntering Day - saunter on over and get daddy a beer, huh?
*Husband Caregiver Day
*Family Awareness Day
Couldn’t just let us dads have this one day, huh?

20: Ice Cream Soda Day - June sounds like a yummy month!

21: Finally Summer Day- Summer Solstice

21: Go Skate Day – “I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key”

21: World Handshake Day Link 

22: National Chocolate Eclair Day - and the yumminess continues. Chocolate ice cream, éclairs, applesauce cake, ice cream sodas… I’m getting fat just thinking about it.

22: Stupid Guy Thing Day I think this one was totally made up. Sounds like a stupid thing a guy woul… err, never mind

23: National Columnists Day – Bloggers are like columnists, aren’t they?

23: Let It Go Day – just let it go man.
23: Public Service Day – and go out and do something good for someone else. Just because.

23: National Pink Day  - I’m confused here. Is it pink as in pinking shears or the color pink? Or, is it the singer P!nk?

24: Swim a Lap Day - `cuz you’re gonna need some way to work off the ice cream. And éclairs. And sodas. And fudge.

24: International Fairy Day - Celebrated around the world by those who love all things fairy. Mark your calendars & join in the magic! Fairy Day falls on June 24th each year Link
24: Take Your Dog To Work Day – Well, you take your kids (originally it was your daughter) to work. And, for some folks anyway, their dogs are like their kids. Unless you dog is more suited to… another celebration on the 24^th - Ugliest Dog Day

25: Great American Backyard Campout 

25: National Catfish Day - Sorry, that is just one ugly damned fish.

26: Beautician's Day

26: Log Cabin Day – In case you wanted to camp in.

26: Forgiveness Day - is a time to forgive and to be forgiven. Okay, so there was this guy, and he did this really stupid thing. Well, okay, that guy was me…

27: Sun Glasses Day – It is summer time after all!

27: Please Take My Children To Work Day - this tongue-in-cheek holiday is for Stay-at-Home-Moms who deserve a well-earned break.

28: Insurance Awareness Day - Now who do you think invented that!?!

28: Paul Bunyan Day

29: Camera Day  - Cameras are every where now; In your phone or your tablet. Lost cost point and shoots to high end digital SLRs. So go on, take a picture!

29: Waffle Iron Day – Leggo that Eggo and enjoy a waffle made the good ald fashioned way

30: Meteor Day - Imagine a baseball speeding along at 30,000 miles per hour with thousands of particles trailing along behind it...and it's traveling right towards you!

30: National Bomb Pop Day – Yet another tasty treat to close out the month of June. The Bomb Pop, invented in 1955 on Independence Avenue in Kansas City, MO, has roots in true Americana. This six-finned summertime treat is used to celebrate patriotism in conjunction with Fourth of July celebrations. As the anniversary of our country’s independence draws near, celebrate with America’s favorite red, white and blue novelty. Annually, the last Thursday of June

30: National Hand Shake Day - Link (Different sponsor than World Handshake Day)

The month of May and July is here

Off-beat Holidays - the Month of May

Yesterday, a lot of hub-bub was made about the 4th of May being Intergalactic Star Wars Day. And, today is Cinco de Mayo. So that got me thinking; what other obscure holidays are there? Well, come to find out, there is a holiday for just about every day of the year.

To keep this on the shorter side, I figured I would start with the month of May and perhaps post the special, obscure and down right silly holidays monthly. I know I am looking forward to National Underwear Day, which is August 7th and International Talk Like a Pirate Day in September.

National Two Different Colored Shoes Day May 3; A day to recognize and celebrate the uniqueness and diversity of humanity. The simple and lighthearted act of purposely wearing two different colored shoes demonstrates the courage to take a risk and step outside of one’s daily routine. Yeah, boring! Besides, I do a personal two different colored sock day at least monthly.
Intergalactic Star Wars Day, May 4; a day for celebrating all things Star Wars. May the fourth be with you!
Cinco de Mayo, May 5; It is celebrated nationwide in the US and regionally in Mexico. A celebration of Mexican pride and heritage – and not Mexican Independence Day. That occurs on September 16th. It will be celebrated by the consumption of a lot of Corona by me!
No Pants Day, May 6; No Pants Day is occasionally observed in several Western and other countries on the first Friday in May. It is a prank day and those who participate and encouraged to behave as if there is nothing strange or unusual about going around in public with out pants. So, leave your pants at home on May 6th this year!
Kentucky Derby Day, May 7; Always the first Saturday in May. Will there be a Triple Crown winner this year?
Limerick Day, May 12; In celebration of the little five line poem that originated in Limerick, Ireland. I prefer mine to be on the dirty side:

There once was a fellow McSweeny
Who spilled some gin on his weenie
Just to be couth
He added vermouth
Then slipped his girlfriend a martini

National Chicken Dance Day, May 14; Not unless I’m really drunk… and at a wedding. Did I mention that I’d have to be really, really drunk??
National Pizza Party Day, May 15: Make mine a pepperoni! And, since it’s also National Chocolate Chip Day, I’d like some chocolate chip cookies for dessert.
National Bike to Work Day, May 20; Well, with the price of gas and all, that may be the only option for some of us pretty soon.
Armed Forces Day, May 21; celebrated annually on the third Saturday of May. Honor those that have served and thank a member of the armed forces for their service.
Preakness Stakes, May 21; The second leg of the Triple Crown. At the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, MD.
Towel Day, May 25; (a tribute to the late Douglas Adams) Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001) He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honor. Read the book, you’ll be a fan too, and, unserstand why you shouldn’t leave hone without a towel.

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Cellophane Tape Day, May 27; On this day in 1930, Richard Gurley Drew received his patent for adhesive tape, which 3M later marketed as Scotch tape. I dunno, sounds like that could be a sticky situation.

Memorial Day, May 30; First enacted to honor Union and soldiers following the America Civil War, it was extended after World War I to honor Americans who have died in all wars. Honor those that have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

May is also: Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month. A disease that touches home for my wife. Not to mention National Barbeque Month, mmmmm… barbeque! And National Photo Month, to name just a few.

The month of June is here