August is woefully short of holidays of any sort so we’ve had to go a bit farther afield this month: August 3 – Picnic Day in the Northern Territory of Australia – maybe we should all join in? August 6 – National Root Beer Float Day August 24 – Vesuvius Day – 1930th anniversary of [...]

July 2 – World UFO Day  The Roswell ‘find’ was on July 2… July 12 – Different colored eyes day (no known connection to UFO Day) July 14 – The holiday trifecta: Bastille Day, Pandemonium Day, and National Nude Day All of July is National Ice Cream Month with these additional holidays: July 7 – [...]

June 17 – Bunker Hill Day June 18 – International Panic Day June 19 – World Sauntering Day June 22 – National Chocolate Eclair Day June 30 – Meteor Watch day The whole month of June is National Accordion Awareness Month

May 1 – National Law Day, National Loyalty Day, May Day May 8 – International Tuba Day – note it’s Tuba Day not Tuba Player Day… May 9 – Lost Sock Remembrance Day – mourn and move on May 20 – Meck-Dec Day May 30 – National Mint Julep Day The whole month is National [...]

April 6 – Plan Your Epitaph Day  If you don’t, someone else will…. April 13 – Dyngus Day – nothing says love like getting someone wet April 25 – World Penguin Day And the whole last week of April is National Karaoke Week! (can you stand it?)

There’s nothing worse than playing a conventional prank on April Fool’s Day.  Luckily, there’s a database…. and these are some of the really good ones, not just prank calls or slapstick stuff.  So make 2009 the year of the really nurdly April Fool’s.  Something eccentric and quirky, and newsworthy!  See other hoaxes on the parent [...]

On this day when we are all Irish (in the same way that we were once all Berliner jelly doughnuts) the Muppets always know how to get out of knowing the words.

March 10 – Middle Name Pride Day  Read up on middle names March 11 – Worship of Tools Day March 14 – National Pi Day   March 20 – Extraterrestrial Abductions Day

It’s time to start practicing pirate talk and making sure you have a good pirate name picked out. International Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th.