The little son of a bitch is 95 years old today and still looks like he did decades ago. Dorian Gray didn’t age so well, not even that famous vampire Dick Clark before he got crushed by a falling New Year’s Eve ball, leaving us no option but celebrating NATIONAL MICKEY MOUSE DAY! Mickey Mouse …
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Now, if we could only remember who or what it is we’re supposed to be forgetting, or not forgetting on NATIONAL FORGET-ME-NOT DAY! Do we write Forget-Me-Not notes to people, or do we forget about them? Reminisce or repress? In any respectably misspent life, there’s no shortage of people and situations we’d rather forget, and with …
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Do you love Lucy? How about Conan O’Brien, Maureen O’Hara, Helen of Troy, Mohammed, Ann Margaret, Brigham Young, Hedy Lammar, Vincent Van Gogh or Brenda Starr? Today, we rejoice. It’s NATIONAL LOVE YOUR RED HAIR DAY! While some natural redheads feel self conscious about their flaming locks, an equal amount of people are jealous of …
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You could have knocked me over with a feather when I found out today’s National Day walks like a duck and talks like duck on NATIONAL CLICHE DAY! It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good, and on Cliche Day we wish the wind to be ever at your back as you keep …
It was tentatively decided to appoint a committee to debate the possibility of forming a commission empowered to discuss empaneling a Special Board to study the calendar year for 6 months and issue nonbinding recommendations. That’s how today came, eventually, to be known as INTERNATIONAL UNITED NATIONS DAY! Founded by a wounded and shell shocked …
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Today marks the 61st anniversary of the highest stakes poker game ever played, one that terrified the entire world on INTERNATIONAL CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DAY! It was 1962, the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and American spy planes had recently noticed newly constructed nuclear missile silos in …
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Regrets? We’ve all had a few, and who doesn’t want a do-over every so often? Everyone has a thick “What I Should Have Said” and a “What I Should Have Done” file, perfect for NATIONAL MULLIGAN DAY! Remember that job interview where you called the little guy who answered the door “Shorty,” and he turned out …
Well, pluck my Funk & Wagnall’s, Webster! Here’s a holiday close to Password Man’s heart, NATIONAL DICTIONARY DAY! Hot on the heels of “National English Language Day,” today we celebrate that big fat book with painted page edges and little thumb indents for each letter of the alphabet. For those of us fascinated with vocabulary, …
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Looks like someone’s got some ‘splainin‘ to do! Why? Because it’s NATIONAL I LOVE LUCY DAY! On October 15th, 1951, Colombia Broadcasting System first aired “I Love Lucy.” Created by Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz as a starring vehicle for his wife, comic actress Lucille Ball, “I Love Lucy” not only touched America’s funny bone, but …
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