Is there a man alive who’s not a sucker for bright red lipstick? Not wearing it, but seeing it on their ladies. Okay, some do wear it, but that’s a whole other holiday. This one is NATIONAL LIPS APPRECIATION DAY! Red lips, kiss my blues away! What better way to appreciate lips than by kissing […]
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Can’t say Caesar wasn’t warned by a blind, emaciated street beggar (and those guys are never wrong), but the Dictator for Life of the Roman Republic was one arrogant son of a bitch. Until 44 BCE that is, on THE IDES OF MARCH! “Et tu, Brute?” were Julius Caesar’s last words, referring to his erstwhile buddy Brutus,
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Sure, sure, they’re all telling you today is International Pi Day, 3.14 and all that cutesy geek nonsense. Forget all that, you were done with Pi the day you left school. Here’s the real dope: March 14, 44 BCE was Julius Caesar’s second-worst day, but for his Co-Consul and best friend, it was one of
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The best part about him is that you could only understand about every seventh or eighth word he said, and he was still hilarious. Let’s all sqbzzt byzltxgth on this NATIONAL DONALD DUCK DAY! Vain, ignorant, irritable and prone to tantrums, Donald Duck was still one of Walt Disney’s most lovable cartoon characters. Which is not too
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It’s not his birthday, or any other notable date in his life, so why March 12 is his National Day is puzzling. Just like the man himself on NATIONAL ALFRED HITCHCOCK DAY! Like his movies, you don’t always know why some things are happening, you just sort of accept the premise. Considered one of the
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Whether or not they come true is beside the point. They are yours and yours alone, and cannot be taken from you, especially on NATIONAL DREAM DAY! People dream. No, not the kind where you’re at the train station in your underwear, but the waking kind of dreams, our plans and hopes and, for lack
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Wars are expensive, and nobody knew that better than Napoleon Bonaparte, who was forced to unload some prime real estate for a lousy 42¢ an acre to pay for his latest contretemps with the British Empire, making today NATIONAL LOUISIANA PURCHASE DAY! The year was 1803, and Napoleon had learned the hard way in Russia
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For over 28,000 TV shows from 1951 to 2015, he interviewed hundreds of thousands of people, some of them household names, others bordering on anonymous, and his was the last of the Mom & Pop television shows, making today NATIONAL JOE FRANKLIN DAY! He invented the talk show, and rarely stopped talking long enough to
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If there’s a holiday that cries out “be careful what you wish for,” it is NATIONAL GENEALOGY DAY! Sure, we all tell ourselves we’re going to look up the old family tree, see what illustrious ancestors we have, but never seem to get around to it. These days, however, we’re all hooked into the World Wide
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Here’s a holiday almost no one is celebrating, NATIONAL DAY OF UNPLUGGING! The idea is to shut off the cell phones, iPods, tablets, Kindles, PCs and what-have-yous that hooks you into the World Wide Web in seconds. The calendar says 2026, not 1969, and unplugging is not an option at this point. In an age
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