# Did you ever celebrate a fictional day?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 16, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944 "2007-07-16T05:23:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/1 "2007-07-16T05:23:10Z")
“Six billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war ‘Judgment Day’. They lived only to face a new nightmare. The war aganist the machines…”
On August 29, 1997, I had a bunch of friends over, rented a laserdisc player and the extended cut of Terminator 2 (at the time, only available on LD, I think), and we had a grand old time.
Anyone done anything similar?
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/2 "2007-07-16T05:41:31Z")
November 11th-Woodrow Wilson Smith.
Chocolate cake, but no candles by order of the local fire department.
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### Author:  [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/3 "2007-07-16T05:47:54Z")
I rang my sister on May 15 and said “Help! Help!” very quietly.
Because:
On the fifteenth of May,
In the Jungle of Nool
In the heat of the day
In the cool of the pool
He was splashing,
Enjoying the jungle’s great joys
When Horton the Elephant
Heard a small noise.
> **[Seussical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seussical)**
>
> Seussical is a musical comedy by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, based on the many children's stories of Dr. Seuss, with most of its plot being based on Horton Hears a Who!, Gertrude McFuzz, and Horton Hatches the Egg while incorporating many other stories. The musical's name is a portmanteau of "Seuss" and the word "musical". Following its Broadway debut in 2000, the show was widely panned by critics, and closed in 2001 with huge financial losses. It has spawned two US national tours and a Th...
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### Author:  [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/4 "2007-07-16T06:06:05Z")
Not yet, but you’re all invited to my mayan-themed Christmas party on Dec 21, 2012.
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### Author:  [@Gengis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gengis)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/5 "2007-07-16T06:33:59Z")
October 23, of course. The day the world was “created”.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/6 "2007-07-16T15:19:22Z")
Not a holiday from a work of fiction but…
My birthday was on a Sunday this year. It was also the same day as my sister-in-law-to-be’s bridal shower, so the actual day was kind of shot.
Instead, I took the day off on Friday and gave my brother (who works for me) the day off as well, declaring it Jessica Day. I told him the only stipulation of him getting the day off was if anyone asked why he wasn’t at work that day it was “because Jessica is _awesome_.” That ended up being kind of funny because a lot of his in-laws were in town and he told them all “Jessica is _awesome_.”
For my part of the Jessica Day festivities, I made my boyfriend go clothes shopping with me and we got ice cream and saw _Hot Fuzz_. Yay!
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### Author:  [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/7 "2007-07-16T15:39:10Z")
October 8th - the Feast of Maximum Occupancy
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/8 "2007-07-16T16:59:44Z")
Festivus!
My friend’s birthday is also Judgement Day, so that usually plays a role in the festivities.
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### Author:  [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/9 "2007-07-16T17:01:18Z")
I call or email several friends every November 5 - the day time travel was invented.
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### Author:  [@Agonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agonist)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/10 "2007-07-16T17:06:03Z")
September 22. Bilbo’s birthday.
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/11 "2007-07-16T17:33:44Z")
[QUOTE=Gengis]
October 23, of course. The day the world was “created”.
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Strangely enough, I was just reading that last night.
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### Author:  [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/12 "2007-07-16T17:41:42Z")
Well, in Austin, we celebrate [Eeyore’s Birthday](http://www.klru.org/austinnow/archives/eeyores/eeyores.asp) every year. It’s grown into a huge hippe bacchanalia with drumming circles, constumes, beer, and general merriment.
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/13 "2007-07-16T17:42:48Z")
I’ve been trying to get my boss to let me off to celebrate Muad’dibs transmutation of the Water of Life. But he’s been presecuting me ever since he found out that it happened on every other Friday of the year.
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### Author:  [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/14 "2007-07-16T17:49:08Z")
Mark your calendars now!
January 31st is [National Gorilla Suit Day](http://www.nationalgorillasuitday.com/)!
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### Author:  [@AndLuna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndLuna)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/15 "2007-07-16T22:50:33Z")
I usually wear a lilac tshirt or something for the [Glorious 25th of May](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(novel)) . (Not actual lilacs, of course; I wasn’t there.)
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/16 "2007-07-16T23:06:33Z")
You know, I’m going to bookmark this thread and write down all the dates and events. It sounds like a cool idea for a fun calendar!
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/17 "2007-07-16T23:10:03Z")
The Liberation of North Twentyador (Twentyador being the only country other than Ecuador named for its line of latitude; in fact, it is named for its longitude _and_ latitude).
Harry Potter’s birthday.
Bloomsday.
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### Author:  [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/18 "2007-07-16T23:13:36Z")
I’m a pretty lax discordian, but when Friday falls on the 23rd, I generally remember to joyously partake of a hot dog.
We’re supposed to do it every friday.
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/19 "2007-07-16T23:16:28Z")
The 3rd of September
A day I’ll always remember
and
The 3rd of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/20 "2007-07-16T23:18:12Z")
In the past I have celebrated 4/20 when it wasn’t even April.
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