National Days

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/31/22 – INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SEVEN BILLION!

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Seven billion, that’s a 7 with 9 zeroes behind it; 7,000,000,000. On October 31, 2011, world population reached that number, so the United Nations decreed that we celebrate INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SEVEN BILLION! The 7 billionth customer didn’t win any valuable prizes, but that’s the UN for you, all fact-finding committees and non-binding resolutions, but no […]

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/29/13 – MORE HERBS, LESS SALT DAY!

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Can’t say I know many guys named Herbert with high blood pressure, but a holiday’s a holiday, so let’s get festive for NATIONAL MORE HERBS, LESS SALT DAY! You can call me Herb, you can call me Herbie, but whatever you do, don’t call me your Salty Dog! The origins of National More Herbs, Less

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/1/22- FAT TUESDAY!

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Call it the day before the austere Lenten Season, a wild street party, Carnival or Mardi Gras, the idea is to overindulge in everything on FAT TUESDAY! If you want to know the exact origins of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday, ask an anthropologist, but Margaret Meade doesn’t work at bobcrespo.com. As far as our

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/25/21 – THANKSGIVING DAY!

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It’s THANKSGIVING DAY, when we show our gratitude and humility, so we offer this simple prayer: Oh Lord, we are your humble servants and thankful we only have to eateth this ponderous provender but once a year. If there is a drier, more tasteless bird in all Your vast Creation, oh Lord, we

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 11/15/21 – ELVIS MOVIE DAY!

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On this date in 1956, Elvis Presley made his acting debut in a forgettable piece of crap called “Love Me Tender,” launching his movie career and making today NATIONAL ELVIS MOVIE DAY! The King made 31 movies in all, usually playing a handsome young rebel with a guitar who gets in and out of trouble,

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/14/21 – HELL FREEZES OVER DAY!

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Just 5 years removed from being the 2016 World Series Champions, the Chicago Cubs have returned to their accustomed place in the baseball hierarchy, as noble also-rans. We cross our fingers that they can someday once again catch lighting in a bottle as we celebrate the 113th Anniversary of the Cubs’ previous World Series win

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/4/21 – NATIONAL SINGLE WORKING WOMEN’S DAY

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Men might might call this “The Perfect Girlfriend Day,” but the calendar informs us that it’s NATIONAL SINGLE WORKING WOMEN’S DAY! Hurray for our single working women, the schoolmarms, secretaries, librarians, shop clerks, maids and flower girls. And also the doctors, lawyers, cabbies, electricians, cops, truckers and executives of the single female persuasion. A lot

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/2/21 – INTERNATIONAL BEER DAY

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Let’s pretend this is not a daily observance for so many and humor the rest of us on INTERNATIONAL BEER DAY! Lagers, Pilsners, Ales or Stouts, we’re celebrating beer today, the oldest human beverage other than milk, dating back to at least 9500 BCE. Mesopotamians brewed it, Egyptians loved it too (explains the wacky hieroglyphics,

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY – 8/1/21 – WORLDWIDE WEB DAY

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Well, www.wow, what a coincidence. Here we are, and here it is WORLDWIDE WEB DAY! What most of us are positive is advanced voodoo is actually “a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet, accessible to individuals via a web browser.” Okay then! All most if us know is that we can get everything

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/28/21 – CAROUSEL DAY!

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There’s no sound quite like the pipe organ music that announces their presence even before you lay eyes on them, and when you do get a look, you’re seeing Paradise on a spinning platform, with the painted ponies, carriages and other creatures all saddled up and waiting for you on NATIONAL CAROUSEL DAY! Merry-Go-Round is

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