LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 821
If you have a control freak in your life, change all the clocks in the house to different times. It won’t help their problem, but it gives them something else to do besides annoying you.
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Robert R. Crespo
TODAY’S ANNUAL DAY, 4/20/14 – EASTER FUNDAY!
This doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, it’s your cue to stock up on extra Peeps and chocolate on NATIONAL EASTER FUNDAY! That’s right, another Two’Fer holiday, when Easter Sunday and Pot Smoker’s Day collide. He is risen, all right, and she’s pretty high too, so don’t Bogart that chocolate bunny on 4/20.
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 4/9/14 – NAME YOURSELF DAY!
So, you’re feeling like Romeo today? Call yourself Romeo Smith, or Lance Hardwick if you like, it’s okay. Seeking your inner songbird? Diva MacMelody is as good as any on NATIONAL NAME YOURSELF DAY! We’re not talking about using an alias and taking it on the lam, just asking why should showbiz types be the only
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 2/18/14 – BIODIESEL DAY!
Who knew? Rudolph Diesel (1858 – 1913), inventor of the Diesel engine, meant for it to run on vegetable oil, not the petroleum-derived diesel fuel used today, so we celebrate NATIONAL BIODIESEL DAY! Diesel noticed how steam engines waste 90% of their fuel, while internal combustion engines waste up to 75%, and designed his engine to
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY,3/14/14 – INTERNATIONAL MARK ANTONY GETS LUCKY DAY!
March 14, 44 BCE was Julius Caesar’s second-worst day, but for his Co-Consul and best friend, it was one of his best days, making today INTERNATIONAL MARK ANTONY GETS LUCKY DAY! It was the day before the Ides of March, and Caesar’s assassins were holding their last meeting before making Julius Kabob of Caesar
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/2/14 – DR. SEUSS DAY!
I dig Dr. Seuss’ scene of Hatted Cats and Grinches Green of elephants named Horton too and fishes red and green and blue. Hellzyeah, it’s NATIONAL DOCTOR SEUSS DAY! Who didn’t grow up a huge fan of that PhD in English Literature, Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known to children everywhere as Dr. Seuss? Following his
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, II/II/MMXIV – ROMAN NUMERAL DAY!
It’s here, the day we’ve all been waiting for! It’s Superbowl XLVIII, and you know what that means. That’s right, boys and girls, it’s NATIONAL ROMAN NUMERAL DAY! While Roman numerals are only used these days for Superbowls, movie sequels and at the end of rich guys’ names, they were once the most widely used
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LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 820
When someone is breaking up with you and says “we’ll still be friends,” they mean the long lost variety, the kind without speed dial.
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LIFE EXPLAINED, PART 267
The most insignificant day of the week is Tuesday. Nobody looks forward to it, no one remembers what they did. Nothing happens on Tuesday unless some major holiday happens to fall on one every so often, and then people are disappointed, declaring the holiday ruined. Tuesday is the Rodney Dangerfield of weekdays.
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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 2/20/23 – PRESIDENTS DAY!
Used to be that only 2 presidents got A Day, and they were our Top 2 – Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and George Washington (February 22), and on their actual birthdays, which were were both national holidays no matter what day of the week on which they happened to fall, instead of what we have today, PRESIDENTS
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