Shooting stars, falling stars, fireballs, asteroids, comets and Thunder Stones are also common names for the cosmic debris smashing into our planet constantly, making today NATIONAL METEOR DAY! What meteors are, technically, are meteorites, which are small asteroids, bodies of material ranging from the size of a grain of sand to incandescent stone arrows a …
Here’s one for the Geeks, whose time has finally come after 5,000 years of recorded history, during which it was the Geeks who invented everything that made history possible, and Kings that got the credit, so today we celebrate the Holy Grail for Geeks, NATIONAL iPHONE DAY Even though they are as common as the …
He’s the guy who wears the most hats in the Comedy Industry, from The 2,000 Year Old Man to director, producer, composer, lyricist, actor and screenwriter, a skill set achieved only by Charlie Chaplin before him, and America’s most consistently hilarious comic mind. And he married Mrs.Robinson, Anne Bancroft. It’s only right that we wish this …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/28/23 – MEL BROOKS’ DAY! Read More »
Never mind the UV-Rays protection numbers, the anti-glare guard factor or anything else that drives the price up, because you’re going to lose them in a week anyway. The main criteria for buying any pair of shades is how cool you look in them, end of list, especially on NATIONAL SUNGLASSES DAY! It’s Summertime, and …
No, we’re not celebrating cyclones, this isn’t about angry Mother Nature, but The Cyclone! Still rated by Roller Coaster lovers as one of the scariest in the world, Coney Island’s Cyclone gets more terrifying with every year it defies gravity and the wrecking ball, making today NATIONAL CYCLONE DAY! It wasn’t the first roller coast in …
The first one we hear about is the Tooth Fairy, who buys our baby teeth for 50¢ a pop, sort of an odd hobby, but she’s but one of the magical creatures we celebrate on NATIONAL FAIRY DAY! Unlike some creatures from the realm of magic and moonlight, Fairies don’t have a mean bone in …
Never heard of Christopher Latham Sholes? Don’t feel bad, few people have, but everyone reading this has used his QWERTY keyboard, so if you need someone to blame for putting the alphabet out of alphabetical order, he’s the guy, and today is his day, NATIONAL TYPEWRITER DAY! Christopher Scholes was a newspaper editor and inventor …
Where would Emergency Rooms be without them? Pretty short of laughs in a grim atmosphere is where, so let’s celebrate STUPID GUYS DOING STUPID THINGS DAY! Most males of the human species bear reminders or our less-than-finest moments, the various scars, mended bones and police records that last a lifetime. Who can forget the time …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/22/23 – STUPID GUYS DOING STUPID THINGS DAY! Read More »
It’s nowhere near the middle of summer, those pavement and brain-melting days of early August, but ancient tradition demands we lay off the word “solstice” today, so as not to confuse us backward peasants into thinking we displeased some god or goddess of fertility or another, and Winter comes back too soon, so we use …
You really can’t run in them, but that’s one of the beauties of our favorite summer footwear as we celebrate NATIONAL FLIP-FLOP DAY! Called “thongs” before thongs became intimate apparel with strong comic associations, your rubber flip-flops are adapted from a simple sandal that has been in use for 6,000 years. The shoe named for …
