NurdleNet » Holidays http://www.nurdle.net Celebrating quirky Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:45:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Don’t forget to celebrate! Unusual holidays in July http://www.nurdle.net/2009/07/dont-forget-to-celebrate-unusual-holidays-in-july/ http://www.nurdle.net/2009/07/dont-forget-to-celebrate-unusual-holidays-in-july/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:00:15 +0000 Juliet Chase http://www.nurdle.net/?p=558

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 – National Strawberry Sundae Day
  • July 17 – National Peach Ice Cream Day
  • July 20 – National Ice Cream Day
  • July 23 – National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
  • July 25 – National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
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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 Chocolate Custard Month!

]]> http://www.nurdle.net/2009/05/dont-forget-to-celebrate-unusual-holidays-in-may/feed/ 1 Release your inner Easter Bunny http://www.nurdle.net/2009/04/release-your-inner-easter-bunny/ http://www.nurdle.net/2009/04/release-your-inner-easter-bunny/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:00:26 +0000 Juliet Chase http://www.nurdle.net/?p=169

While not new, this episode of the Vicar of Dibley has to be the quintessential representation of people in full bunny suits. And better yet, most of them believe…

Watch on Youtube or buy the series at the BBC: The Vicar of Dibley: The Immaculate Collection

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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.

]]> http://www.nurdle.net/2009/03/happy-st-patricks-day/feed/ 0 It’s time to start preparing for International Talk Like a Pirate Day http://www.nurdle.net/2009/02/its-time-to-start-preparing-for-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/ http://www.nurdle.net/2009/02/its-time-to-start-preparing-for-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:40:10 +0000 Juliet Chase http://www.nurdle.net/?p=23

Just like Halloween I always leave preparing for this holiday until too late, but not this year.  Although September 19th will be here before you know it. So it’s time to start practicing pirate talk and making sure you have a good pirate name picked out.  (I think I’ll be sticking with Black Bess unless I can come up with something really inspired…)

Much, much more information, tips, and resources are available on the official International Talk Like a Pirate Day site.  From experience I can say that the abilility to email and text in pirate talk is more difficult than you may thing and may require extra practice.  Some suprisingly ‘normal’ individuals seem to have an inborn talent to type with extra r’s and apostraphes.

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