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What crazy national day falls on your birthday? (Original Post) WilliamPitt Jan 2014 OP
Hinamatsuri in Japan IntravenousDemilo Jan 2014 #1
National Rocky Road Day Sky Masterson Jan 2014 #2
Talk Like a Pirate Day... Tom_Foolery Jan 2014 #3
i wanted to get married on talk like a pirate day fizzgig Jan 2014 #8
fools gave me National Candy Corn Day magical thyme Jan 2014 #4
Me too warrior1 Jan 2014 #76
Knife Day In_The_Wind Jan 2014 #5
Run up the flagpole and see Sweet Freedom Jan 2014 #6
YAY! National Pastry Day! MuseRider Jan 2014 #7
I was born on Mother's Day! Seriously. vanlassie Jan 2014 #9
Respect Canada Day LiberalElite Jan 2014 #10
Wet Tee-Shirt Day!!! Woo hoo! petronius Jan 2014 #11
National Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day! Scruffy Rumbler Jan 2014 #12
National Tug of War Tournament Day. Cool! n/t livetohike Jan 2014 #13
We seem to share a birthday pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #14
Ha! WilliamPitt Jan 2014 #17
I found your one redeeming social value! pinboy3niner Jan 2014 #19
National Pastry Day! femmocrat Jan 2014 #15
Guy Fawkes Day: UK. WinkyDink Jan 2014 #16
Mine is the day before Guy Fawkes Day, but 2 horrible events have happened on it SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2014 #95
Little did we know then how the former would totally transform America (Reagan). WinkyDink Jan 2014 #97
Mine is pretty close to Festival For The Souls Of Dead Whales Day Kaleva Jan 2014 #18
National Angel Food Cake Day. nt Still Blue in PDX Jan 2014 #20
Martin Luther King Day.... yuiyoshida Jan 2014 #21
My birthday is Jan. 18th. RebelOne Jan 2014 #79
Happy birthday if yuiyoshida Jan 2014 #80
Thank you. n/t RebelOne Jan 2014 #91
Better than mine ThomThom Jan 2014 #92
Winnie the Pooh Day hibbing Jan 2014 #22
Or just wait until Eeyore's birthday to celebrate :) kentauros Jan 2014 #25
Cinco de Mayo kwassa Jan 2014 #23
I don't know how crazy mine is, but I like it: Jewel Day kentauros Jan 2014 #24
New Years Day...Jan 1... GReedDiamond Jan 2014 #26
Everyone is already hung over at the party Major Nikon Jan 2014 #62
Skyscraper Day and, sometimes, Labor Day Ino Jan 2014 #27
I have a good one: Limerick Day! TuxedoKat Jan 2014 #28
Me too! av8rdave Jan 2014 #86
Well TuxedoKat Jan 2014 #88
Day of the Dead BainsBane Jan 2014 #29
National Sugar cookie day. Rincewind Jan 2014 #30
It's all starting to make sense now: Thomas Crapper Day bluesbassman Jan 2014 #31
No Shit! he's the inventor of the ballcock! Raine1967 Jan 2014 #35
We had a Thomas Crapper toilet in our bathroom .. auntAgonist Jan 2014 #49
Eliza Doolittle Day Lucinda Jan 2014 #32
Cinqo de Mayo - National Hoagie Day Xyzse Jan 2014 #33
nine months after the Christmas Eve shag day rurallib Jan 2014 #34
Emma M Nutt Raine1967 Jan 2014 #36
Something on a Stick Day antiquie Jan 2014 #37
Sneak some zucchini.. a la izquierda Jan 2014 #38
It was a bounty year in everyone's garden. antiquie Jan 2014 #39
Ahh... a la izquierda Jan 2014 #43
Heck with the porch. raven mad Jan 2014 #85
National Toasted Marshmallow Day Glorfindel Jan 2014 #40
National Heart Day and Ferris Wheel Day 1monster Jan 2014 #41
Poisoned Blackberries Day hermetic Jan 2014 #42
Cool stories, antiquie Jan 2014 #44
April 1st. grantcart Jan 2014 #45
Visitation Of The Virgin Mary Day Moondog Jan 2014 #46
Festival of Life in the Cracks Day! mnhtnbb Jan 2014 #47
Today January 12… for my b-day :) Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day auntAgonist Jan 2014 #48
HAPPY BIRTHDAY aA Crewleader Jan 2014 #50
Happy Birthday auntA! bluesbassman Jan 2014 #53
Tell-A-Lie Day Crewleader Jan 2014 #51
Old Stuff Day liberal N proud Jan 2014 #52
Waiting For The Barbarians Day GreatCaesarsGhost Jan 2014 #54
National Chocolate Day... handmade34 Jan 2014 #55
United Nations Day - October 24th. mysuzuki2 Jan 2014 #56
Summer Solstice (normally, that is) IDemo Jan 2014 #57
No national but an international treestar Jan 2014 #58
Cherry Popsicle Day!!! Rhythm Jan 2014 #59
Kazoo Day TexasBushwhacker Jan 2014 #60
Mine is the "Festival Of Popular Delusions Day" Initech Jan 2014 #61
Go for broke day! Hmmmmm . . . Callalily Jan 2014 #63
World Sauntering day. laundry_queen Jan 2014 #64
Friggin' cool!!! Wait Wut Jan 2014 #65
National Fritters Day NewJeffCT Jan 2014 #66
LOL, my poor daughter... madmom Jan 2014 #67
Canada has a holiday on the Monday nearest my birthday KamaAina Jan 2014 #68
National Cheesecake Day MissMillie Jan 2014 #69
Punk For a Day Day! ananda Jan 2014 #70
Absurdity Day nuxvomica Jan 2014 #71
Nat'l Macaroon Day. nt Jamaal510 Jan 2014 #72
Actually, Thanksgiving Trailrider1951 Jan 2014 #73
National Mud Pack Day redwitch Jan 2014 #74
National Pins and Needles Day! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2014 #75
Election day XRubicon Jan 2014 #77
Not on their calendar, but Manifestor_of_Light Jan 2014 #78
Yeah! Card Playing Day and National Chocolate Day libdem4life Jan 2014 #81
Oct 27 - Sylvia Plath Day MrScorpio Jan 2014 #82
"International Juggling Day"???????????? raven mad Jan 2014 #83
Our birthday is a bizarre day Godhumor Jan 2014 #93
Don't forget! raven mad Jan 2014 #96
I swear I should have been born on March 9th davidpdx Jan 2014 #84
Valentine's Day, Ferris Wheel Day, Organ Donor Day PADemD Jan 2014 #87
National Escargot Day rocktivity Jan 2014 #89
National Connect the Zit Dots on Your Butt Day. BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2014 #90
My son shares his birthday with the original Buddha Godhumor Jan 2014 #94
140 years ago - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol ConcernedCanuk Jan 2014 #98
LiberalEsto's Birthday day LiberalEsto Jan 2014 #99
National Roof Over Your Head Day (December 3). Tanuki Jan 2014 #100
Bob Dylan's Birthday-May 24 albino65 Jan 2014 #101

Sky Masterson

(5,240 posts)
2. National Rocky Road Day
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 05:46 PM
Jan 2014

June 2, 2014 is
National Rocky Road Day

Today is National Rocky Road Day! Rocky road ice cream is a delicious dessert with an interesting culinary history. In 1929 after the stock market crash, a man named William Dreyer (the founder of Dreyer Ice Cream) calmed his Black Thursday nerves by creating the original rocky road. He mixed chunky almonds, mini marshmallows, and delicious milk chocolate ice cream to create a new ice cream flavor that would make people smile despite the tough economic times. It instantly became an American favorite and soon became popular all over the world.

Did you know that in Australia, people add jam to their rocky road ice cream? And in the United Kingdom, they add cherries and raisins! Celebrate National Rocky Road Day with a delicious rocky road ice cream sundae. Yum!

http://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/national-rocky-road-day


fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
8. i wanted to get married on talk like a pirate day
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 06:21 PM
Jan 2014

but one of my bridesmaids already had a wedding the day after.

petronius

(26,597 posts)
11. Wet Tee-Shirt Day!!! Woo hoo!
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 09:38 PM
Jan 2014


Oh wait, that's 'White Tee-Shirt Day.' Darn, and I had a party theme all picked out...

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
19. I found your one redeeming social value!
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 11:45 PM
Jan 2014

Besides your penchant for Jameson and that adorable little girl, that is.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,086 posts)
95. Mine is the day before Guy Fawkes Day, but 2 horrible events have happened on it
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 02:46 AM
Jan 2014

The Iranian Hostsage Crisis and Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
79. My birthday is Jan. 18th.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 10:44 PM
Jan 2014

Kevin Costner, Danny Kaye, Oliver Hardy, Cary Grant and Daniel Webster all shared my birthday, and all but Costner are long gone.

hibbing

(10,095 posts)
22. Winnie the Pooh Day
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 12:21 AM
Jan 2014

I guess I'll have to figure out how to celebrate, I do put honey in my oatmeal most mornings.

Peace

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
24. I don't know how crazy mine is, but I like it: Jewel Day
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 01:51 AM
Jan 2014


Also, earmuffs were patented in 1877 on my birthday, so there's a little crazy

av8rdave

(10,573 posts)
86. Me too!
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 09:05 AM
Jan 2014

More importantly, we share a birthday with George Carlin. Now THAT should be a national holiday!

TuxedoKat

(3,818 posts)
88. Well
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 01:11 PM
Jan 2014

hello birthday twin! Yes, it is cool to share a birthday with George Carlin, also Katharine Hepburn and Florence Nightingale.

 

antiquie

(4,299 posts)
39. It was a bounty year in everyone's garden.
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 10:29 AM
Jan 2014

Happens in SoCal often. Some years there is so much zucchini you can't give it away, thus the sneaking.

Glorfindel

(9,719 posts)
40. National Toasted Marshmallow Day
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 10:46 AM
Jan 2014

It could have been SO much worse...I actually like toasted marshmallows.

GreatCaesarsGhost

(8,584 posts)
54. Waiting For The Barbarians Day
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 04:45 PM
Jan 2014

google tells me this holiday is dedicated to J.M. Coetzee's book "Waiting for the Barbarians".

handmade34

(22,756 posts)
55. National Chocolate Day...
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 05:56 PM
Jan 2014

who would'a thought?? …though oddly enough, when I research, many days like to claim that status… jealous, I guess














treestar

(82,383 posts)
58. No national but an international
Sun Jan 12, 2014, 11:34 PM
Jan 2014

World Mosquito Day. What an honor.

World Mosquito Day, observed annually on 20 August, is a commemoration of British doctor Sir Ronald Ross's discovery in 1897 that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans.[1] Ross is responsible for the annual observance, having declared shortly after his discovery that the day should be known as World Mosquito Day in the future.[1]
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine holds Mosquito Day celebrations every year, including events such as parties and exhibitions, a tradition dating back to as early as the 1930s.[2]



And to think I've been missing these parties for decades!

laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
64. World Sauntering day.
Mon Jan 13, 2014, 11:26 AM
Jan 2014

But actually, Father's day also falls on my birthday every so often. My narcissistic ex hated it - that was supposed to be HIS day dammit! lol.

madmom

(9,681 posts)
67. LOL, my poor daughter...
Mon Jan 13, 2014, 02:15 PM
Jan 2014

It's a running joke in my family that everyone's name is Joe. Both my grandfathers, my dad, my brother, two nieces..Jodi, Joanne, you get the picture. So we named her Rachael. Everyone wanted to know "who was she named after?" Herself was the answer. So what crazy holiday falls on her birthday???...National Joe Day!!!

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
68. Canada has a holiday on the Monday nearest my birthday
Mon Jan 13, 2014, 02:26 PM
Jan 2014

it is known only as "the Civic Holiday". One of these days, hosers...

Trailrider1951

(3,413 posts)
73. Actually, Thanksgiving
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 10:08 PM
Jan 2014

every seven years. If you had a big holiday dinner with most of my family, you'd call it freekin CRAZY too.

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
81. Yeah! Card Playing Day and National Chocolate Day
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 12:09 AM
Jan 2014

Many, many evenings spent playing bridge and heavily indulging in Bridge Mix chocolates. Found something that fits me.

On the down side, it's the halfway mark between the excesses of Christmas...presents all gone, everybody is broke, tinsel is straggling down, tree is browning, underneath empty except for the dead needles and a couple of presents way back under...they state "wait for birthday". No one feels like a party or much of anything ... still stuffed and eating leftovers. Then after that it seems to be the signal for everybody to get ready for New Year's Eve Party/Day. No Happy Birthday Cupcakes to hand out at school, either...on school break.

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
83. "International Juggling Day"????????????
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 08:06 AM
Jan 2014

This for the consummate klutz? The one who has never been able to walk straight and bowls backward? Feh.

Godhumor

(6,437 posts)
93. Our birthday is a bizarre day
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 01:50 AM
Jan 2014

July 16 is also the birthday of River Phoenix

Is the day of a nuclear test after WWII

The day a comet hit Jupiter

The day of a communications failure on an Apollo mission

And we have both cancer and crabs going for us in the zodiac...

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
90. National Connect the Zit Dots on Your Butt Day.
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 02:23 PM
Jan 2014

Not really.

It's just National Oatmeal Muffin day, Dec. 19th.

Godhumor

(6,437 posts)
94. My son shares his birthday with the original Buddha
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 01:52 AM
Jan 2014

As my wife is a Japanese Buddhist, this is considered quite fortuitous.

 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
98. 140 years ago - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 09:48 AM
Jan 2014

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1874 - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast



(Nov 7)

hmmm



CC

Tanuki

(14,914 posts)
100. National Roof Over Your Head Day (December 3).
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 10:31 AM
Jan 2014

I never heard of it, so I looked it up and it is supposed to be a day of gratitude for not being homeless. I am all for gratitude for the things we tend to take for granted, so that sounds fine to me. There don't seem to be any particular traditions associated with the day. This website gave a recipe for a pumpkin crunch cake, which sounds good and heaven knows there is plenty of pumpkin on the market right after Thanksgiving.
http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/December/rooofoveryourhead.htm

I'm not sure there is any other obvious connection between having a roof over your head and pumpkin, unless you are Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater.
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