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 - 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