Hanks William, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells, Minnie Pearl and the Carter Family are but a handful of the members of this organization that has touched all our lives for 98 years now on NATIONAL GRAND OLE OPRY DAY! On November 28, 1925, in Nashville, Tennessee, a young …
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106 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 1947 to 1960, the creator, producer and host …
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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 some wacky disease that’s not around anymore, or …
Well, ho-friggin’-hum, it’s a holiday weekend. No big whoop, this one. Nothing fails to get your blood racing like NATIONAL BLASÉ DAY. Being blasé means being unburdened from giving a tinker’s damn, a sweet release from the pressing concerns of everyday life and the greater world, at least for this one day. We wish we …
On November 24, 1859 a book was published that would change the world and the way we look at it, making today NATIONAL EVOLUTION DAY! Charles Darwin had spent years painstakingly researching “The Origin Of The Species,” the book that founded evolutionary biology. Originally released with the mouthy title “On the Origin of Species by …
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 that we call Christmas shopping, where we buy …
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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 of greens, starches, sweets, gravy and biscuits, followed …
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 and recognizable entertainers of all time, but Sun …
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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, GMA to Judge Judy, or “Hard Core Pawn” over The Science Channel, our not-so-silent partner, Mister Television, …
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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, and most people just sort of go along …
