105 years ago today, on November 27, 1917, Robert Emil Schmidt was born, who would grow up to create television’s first children’s idol, making today NATIONAL HOWDY DOODY DAY! Television’s first generation of kiddie viewers knew and loved Schmidt as Buffalo Bob Smith. For 2,543 shows from […]
Read more →On this day in 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first men to enter a sealed tomb for 3,000 years, which any Steve Martin fan will tell you makes this INTERNATIONAL KING TUT DAY! The Pharaoh Tutankhamun died at about age 18 or 19 from […]
Read more →Retailers call it Black Friday, most of us call it the day after Thanksgiving, but more and more of us are calling it NATIONAL BUY NOTHING DAY! The Friday after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day in the United States, kicking off our annual materialistic feeding frenzy […]
Read more →TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/24/22 -THANKSGIVING
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For a holiday that no religion can claim, it sure has a ton of rituals. Consider the almost universal Thanksgiving menu of the driest bird in the animal kingdom stuffed with bread mixed with the flesh of a far tastier animal, and surrounded by mounds and mounds […]
Read more →Attention Little Boy Blue, Miss Muffet and the Tweedles, both Dee and Dum! Hickory Dickory Dock, look at the clock, it’s NATIONAL MOTHER GOOSE DAY! Little Jack Horner, Old King Cole, Wee Willie Winkie and Little Bo-peep are just a few of the friends of Mother Goose, […]
Read more →On this day in 1955, entertainment conglomerate RCA Victor made its best investment when they paid $35,000 to Sam Philips’ small Memphis record company for Elvis Presley’s contract, making today NATIONAL SUN RECORDS DAY! Everyone knows that Presley went on to become one of the most successful […]
Read more →We criticize it, complain about it, yell at it and take it for granted, but we can’t ignore the squeakiest wheel in the house, and the reason we celebrate NATIONAL TELEVISION DAY! Whether you prefer Kimmel to Colbert, Jerry Springer to Judge Judy, or “Hard Core Pawn” over […]
Read more →This is your day, friends. You know who you are – your mind spins on a slightly different axis than other people’s brains, who never seem to quite get you. Know this; you are not alone, not on NATIONAL ABSURDITY DAY! You know damned well the whole world has gone mad, […]
Read more →TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/19/22 – GETTYSBURG ADDRESS DAY
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159 years ago today, one of the greatest speeches in the history of speeches was given on November 19, 1863, to honor the fallen in the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, making today NATIONAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS DAY! The Battle of Gettysburg had taken place the […]
Read more →TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/18/22 -MICKEY MOUSE DAY!
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The little son of a bitch is 94 years old today and still looks like he did decades ago. Dorian Gray didn’t age so well, not even that famous vampire Dick Clark before he got crushed by a falling New Year’s Eve ball, leaving us no option […]
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