# 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:** 14
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### Author:  [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/41 "2007-07-17T20:23:10Z")
[QUOTE=Saintly Loser]
What, nobody celebrates Bloomsday around here?
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I do! I haven’t quite figured out what I should do other than eat kidney or something.
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### Author:  [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/42 "2007-07-17T21:11:30Z")
I celebrated Christmas a few times. It’s the day when a Jesus guy was supposed to be born.
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### Author:  [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/43 "2007-07-17T22:49:27Z")
September 19 - Talk like a Pirate day
October 16 - the day the Lost in Space crew took off (and also my friends birthday, so we invariably celebrate both)
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/44 "2007-07-18T05:01:57Z")
[QUOTE=threnodyangelfire]
September 19 - Talk like a Pirate day
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Aaaaaaaarrrrrrr, Matey! Glad I’m not the only one celebrating.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/45 "2007-07-18T13:01:40Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King]
Vegetarian Hot Dogs are an abomination! I hereby excommunicate you from the Heart of Gold Cabal!
SLK aka
Pope Zaphod23, Entropy Enginer, Episkopos, Heart of Gold Cabal.
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And I excommunicate you for saying our scared holidays are fictional! May the Turkey Curse fall upon you!
Pope Ourri XLII
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### Author:  [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/46 "2007-07-18T15:44:48Z")
Extracted \*from \* fiction I celebrate [Towel Day](http://severe-delays.livejournal.com/6514.html) and of course International Talk Like a Pirate Day. All aboard! Mind the oars!
Always seem to forget about May the fourth though. ☹
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/47 "2007-07-18T15:52:53Z")
[QUOTE=zelie zelerton]
Always seem to forget about May the fourth though.
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That’s Countdown Day, right? Particularly around mid-afternoon.
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### Author:  [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/48 "2007-07-18T16:04:24Z")
May 17th is a real holiday as it’s my birthday, but it does seem rather odd that every year I find myself celebrating on the day they buried Gage Creed…
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### Author:  [@amelioration](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amelioration)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/49 "2007-07-18T16:05:09Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by **dysonsphere**
> I always make a point to remember the 5th of November.
I definitely watched V for Vendetta on the last 5th of November, and will probably do it next November as well.
Also, once a group of friends and I celebrated our own made-up holiday called “Agnostica”; cleverly disguised as a secular holiday, it was really just an excuse to give/receive presents. 😃
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/50 "2007-07-18T16:06:04Z")
[QUOTE=threnodyangelfire]
September 19 - Talk like a Pirate day
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Aye, me hearty, that be me favARRRRite, as well! 🆒
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### Author:  [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2007, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/51 "2007-07-18T16:15:16Z")
Sort of.
Almost 2 years ago, we had to suddenly leave our daycare provider after something pretty terrible happened in her family. My husband and I were covering the days at home while we searched for a new provider. My daughter was fairly thrown by the whole thing (she didn’t know the circumstances, but suddenly she wasn’t going to daycare anymore) and it was hugely stressful for me trying to balance feeling awful for the former provider, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would never feel OK about my kids being in her care again and having to find a way to tell her that we were leaving, and trying to find childcare in a town where people line it up before their babies are even born and under circumstances where I really didn’t know how I was going to trust anyone with my babies.
One day, in an attempt to just get us all out of our funk, I took the kids to the party store and bought fancy plates and napkins, baked a birthday cake from scratch, and had a birthday party when it wasn’t anyone’s birthday. (Well, it was someone’s somewhere, but no one we knew).
It was awesome.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/52 "2007-07-18T17:59:13Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons]
Aye, me hearty, that be me favARRRRite, as well! 🆒
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Avast, ye scurvy dogs - I celebrate it too!
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/53 "2007-07-19T07:00:17Z")
> [@](#):
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> “Next week on the 20th of May, I’ll proclaim 'Liza Doolittle Day! All of England will celebrate the glory of you and whatever you wish or want I gladly will do.”
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> “Thanks a lot, King,” says I in a manner well-bred. “But all I want is 'enry 'iggins 'ead!”
From _May Fair Lady_ by Lerner and Lowe
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### Author:  [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2007, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-celebrate-a-fictional-day/411944/54 "2007-07-19T07:23:49Z")
I still refer to September 30th as “St. Whedon’s Day” in honor of _Serenity_ being released.
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