Who says they don’t get any holidays? Hell, they even have their own logo, just like the crosses, stars and crescents symbolizing other religions. Today our most fervent preachers and avid seekers of converts get their only holiday all year, one that most of them will spend furiously […]
Read more →They called him The Galveston Giant, when they weren’t calling him Ni**er, that is, or throwing him in jail for loving white women and promoting one more hayseed palooka as The Great White Hope to unseat him as the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Today is NATIONAL JACK […]
Read more →It was a Great Leap Forward, and responsible for the creation of more scholarly dissertations, more great works of art and more inspired doodles than any implement in the history of civilization, even though it is small, humble and unassuming. That’s right, Scribblers, it’s NATIONAL PENCIL DAY! […]
Read more →The best ones have a funny but pleasant smell to them, and are a little bit weird. And that’s just how we like them on NATIONAL MOM & POP STORE DAY! Before shopping malls, before box stores the size of Yankee Stadium, we had Mom & Pop […]
Read more →Dude, I thought this was supposed to be about dandelions? But is says weed, man, weed! No dude, not that kinda weed, this ain’t 4/20. You know… weeds! Exactly, man… weed! Ever since NORML got busy with its Legalize Marijuana campaign and reefer-as-medicine schtick, misunderstanding has been the order of […]
Read more →Sproi-yoi-yoi-yoing… Hallelujah! That’s the sound of another successful dose of Sildenafil citrate on NATIONAL VIAGRA DAY! Over at Pfizer Labs in Sandwich, Kent, England in the early 1990’s, pharmaceutical scientists were trying to come up with a pill to treat high blood pressure. They called it compound […]
Read more →Statistics show there are a lot of “John Smith Days” being held today, being that it’s NATIONAL MAKE UP YOUR OWN HOLIDAY DAY! (YOUR NAME HERE) That’s right, March 26th is a day so lackluster, so bereft of notable births, deaths or great events, that its most […]
Read more →It is common knowledge that this is the Second Best Website Ever and a repository of Music, Truth and Life Explained, as well as the official recorder of National Days, host to the Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) and home of that popular serialized tragicomedy, The […]
Read more →The official name of this holiday is the completely unreasonable “International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims,” so we’ll just go with INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY! As usual, there’s a lot of tyranny and oppression […]
Read more →Before toast, we had bread, sharp sticks and open flame. Breakfast was an adventure, and fatal bread fires were common. Enter the toaster, the greatest advance in civilization since the advance that made toasters necessary, sliced bread, compelling us to celebrate NATIONAL TOAST DAY! Today is actually […]
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