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 »
Today is more than another dry date in the history books. December 6, 1865, marks the adoption of another Amendment to the US Constitution. To the nation, and the world, it was the day America said “Never again!” A day when former slaves rejoiced, NATIONAL 13TH AMENDMENT DAY! 157 years ago today, the catastrophic civil war …
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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 …
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 »
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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Looking for a National Day to get behind? One that will do the most good for mankind while still having fun? Problem solved, it is NATIONAL LEAVE A COMMENT ON BOBCRESPO.COM DAY! Stop by The Second Best Website Ever for great music, Life Explained, Jimmy The Blogging Dog, The Trump Era Week in Review, short …
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After another exciting and dominant season by the (amazingly enough) 2016 World Series Champion Chicago Cubs, we come back down to Earth for the 109th Anniversary of the Cubs’ previous World Series win in 1908, known as NATIONAL HELL FREEZES OVER DAY! It was 7 years before Wrigley Field opened, and the new club owner …
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/14/17 – HELL FREEZES OVER DAY! Read More »
Who says they don’t get any holidays? Hell, they even have their own logo! Today our most fervent preachers and avid seekers of converts get their only holiday all year, one that most of them will spend furiously not celebrating, NATIONAL ATHEIST DAY! They are steadfast believers in disbelief, adherents of non-adherence and practitioners of …
