People just walked down the middle of street before February 24, 1868, when someone in New Orleans had the brainstorm to build a rolling stage for the Mardi Gras Parade, making today NATIONAL PARADE FLOAT DAY! Leave it to New Orleans, our most colorful and imaginative city, to invent a joyful spectacle to mark our […]
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 2/24/21 – PARADE FLOAT DAY! Read More »
Who cares what holiday falls today? Dammit, it’s FULL MOON FRIDAY THE 13TH! Run for your lives! Jason’s coming, Freddy too, and it’s a full moon tonight so werewolves and vampires will be on the prowl. At least that’s what they tell us, so be a sport and play along. Frankenstein’s monster and his blushing
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It was 1793 and France was torn by a bloody revolution that saw the ranks of the aristocracy considerably thinned by a peasantry fed up with subsidizing the decadent wealthy while they starved. The French Revolution had been brewing for decades, but what lit the powder keg that made everything go kablooey were the remarks of
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/16/20 – “HOW’S THE CAKE, MARIE?” DAY! Read More »
Okay, it’s the first Monday of the year, so it’s best to just get this holiday out of the way and move on with our lives. For worse, not better, today is NATIONAL BLUE MONDAY! There’s one every week you say, 52 Miserable Mondays a year, so, why single out this one? Well, for the
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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
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 8/29/19 – MORE HERBS, LESS SALT DAY! Read More »
Today, if you think something is funny, you’re going to have to say “I laughed out loud” or, if something strikes you as especially hilarious, “I rolled on the floor laughing my ass off” instead the digital shorthand plaguing our language and setting our communication skills back to Neanderthal levels on NATIONAL SPEAK IN COMPLETE
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 5/31/19 – SPEAK IN COMPLETE SENTENCES DAY! Read More »
You can stop writing Year of The Earth Dog on your checks now, it’s time for THE YEAR OF THE EARTH PIG! The Pig is the 12th and last member of the Chinese Zodiac, coming last only because there was a race conducted by the fabled Jade Emperor to determine which animals would be included
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 2/5/19 – CHINESE NEW YEAR! Read More »
A bro looks after a bro’s old lady when he gets assassinated and deified, and when that lady is Cleopatra, then maybe a bro looks after a bro’s ex-old lady a little too carefully, making today NATIONAL MARK ANTONY DAY! Julius and Mark went way back, best buds from the ‘hood when they were just
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Today we honor Sir Henry Cole (1818 – 1874) of England. Why, you say? Because he invented them, and today is NATIONAL CHRISTMAS CARD DAY! Now you know who to blame for the 187 cards you have to fill out and mail to people you never hear from except via Christmas cards, which most of us
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/11/23 – CHRISTMAS CARD DAY! Read More »
Who says there can’t be 2 Sundaes in a week? There’s no better way to upgrade your Sunday than celebrating NATIONAL SUNDAE DAY! Second only to the invention of the automobile (the better to get to the ice cream parlor), the Ice Cream Sundae was the crowning achievement of the Industrial Revolution, with no
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