What, nobody celebrates Bloomsday around here?
I should start doing that again. Problem is, I’m a vegetarian- so I think the only commandment I would be breaking is the Discordian one, ‘No Hot Dog Buns.’ So… eh.
Yestheywill, lookat postseventeen!
You win. “Festivus” is the correct answer.
January 12, 1992 (or 1997 depending if you go by the book or the movie)
I do, and so does Shoshana (post #17).
OK, I’m probably going to feel pretty stupid, but what is the significance of the dates?
The day HAL2000 (2001: A Space Odessy) was activated
I would celebrate Feezle Day, if I knew when it was. And where to find a Feezle.
I always make a point to remember the 5th of November.
July 25th is Christmas in July around here.
I don’t decorate or anything, I just say, " It’s Christmas in July!"
The day Neil Diamond nailed that [del]girl[/del] woman twice his age, Desiree?
Nope, the day Billie Joe Macallister Jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge.
I too have been to a few festivus parties. The last one, there was a huge board on the wall to air our grievances by writing them on a post-it note and stick them to the board labeled “grievances” I was pretty drunk and ended up writing several about how my friends are huge bitches.
A few people were going through the feats of strength but I had to get out of there pretty fast.
I always commemorate August 16, Elvis’s death day.
Which, in some people’s eyes, is a fictional day.
Oh sure, just 'cause your “uncle” goes out and has himself an adventure and comes back with all these stories,
(sure uncle, you saw trolls and giant spiders and a dragon, riiight)
it doesn’t give people the right to forget your birthday!
F. Baggins
CMC fnord!
Put me down for Hobbit Day and Blooms Day.
You do know that’s the day they really did catch Guy Fawkes, match almost in hand, not far from about twenty barrels of gunpowder under the House of Lords?
May the Fourth… Be With You.
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.
Non-Discordian Dopers: 
In college (oh, those halcyon days of yore), 4/20 was a real holiday for me and my ilk. We had a ritual, where we’d get in a circle and fire up at 4:20 p.m. Each person brought their own smoke, and we’d begin to pass.
[DISLCAIMER: THIS WAS NOT DONE IN AMERICA, WHERE SUCH ACTIVITIES ARE EVIL, wink wink AND I DO NOT ENDORSE SUCH CONDUCT IN PLACES WHERE IT IS NOT SANCTIONED BY THE GLORIOUS LEADER]
Once, as we were leaving my friend’s apartment, a guy on a bike rode by and said “Happy Holidays”. That was it - he wasn’t trying to bum a smoke or anything, just acknowledging the season. “See? It is a real holiday!” I told my friend.
Even now, I pay homage to peace, tranquility, and good mojo every 20th of April, praying for peace at a time that reminds us of so much horror (it’s also Hitler’s birthday, the anniversay of Columbine, and close to the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing).
Oh yeah, some of my friends also celebrate “Canada Day” on July 1st. What a bunch of nuts.
What?
I always note a few historical days in my calendar, as well as some make-believe ones, like Elessar’s crowning (May 1) from Tolkien’s The Return of the King, or the birthday of Mixtli (Sept. 20), the protagonist from one of my favorite historic novels, Gary Jennings’s Aztec. If I remember, I’ll silently raise a glass to them at dinner that day.