# Fictional Holidays you celebrate
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 28, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490 "2007-12-28T17:41:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2007, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/21 "2007-12-29T07:07:56Z")
As it happens, “Talk Like a Pirate Day” is on our anniversary, so it’s sometimes incorporated into the larger celebration.
But I’d like to add the version of Catmas as practiced by [Bucky in Get Fuzzy](http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b75/Hometownboy/05_29_04_catmas.jpg)
“Bashing on a snake
with a shovel and a rake…”
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/22 "2007-12-29T09:47:13Z")
**Festivus**. I mean, you have the aluminum pole, with a very high strength to weight ratio, the airing of grievances, and the feats of strength. All good!
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/23 "2008-01-01T02:21:44Z")
I almost forgot- I also celebrate National Gorilla Suit Day, which according to writer Mark Evanier (_Groo_ et al) is January 31. Unfortunately, Mr. Evanier is for legal reasons no longer able to use Don Martin drawings or promote the holiday on his website, so from 2008 on I will be celebrating my own unique, similar but legally distinct holiday, American Ape Costume 24-Hour Period.
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### Author:  [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/24 "2008-01-01T18:03:04Z")
[QUOTE=Rick]
March 14th, the greatest holiday [ever](http://www.steakandbjday.com/).
😃
[/QUOTE]
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
3/14 is Pi Day!
> **[Pi Day | Celebrate Mathematics on March 14th](https://www.piday.org/)**
>
> Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter…
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### Author:  [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/25 "2008-01-01T19:41:41Z")
[QUOTE=Meeko]
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
3/14 is Pi Day!
> **[Pi Day | Celebrate Mathematics on March 14th](https://www.piday.org/)**
>
> Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter…
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, let’s put that to a vote and see how many guys prefer pi day.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/26 "2008-01-01T22:44:43Z")
beethoven’s birthday on dec. 16th. i usually put some beethoven on the player and decorate the house for christmas/solstice/yule.
leif eriksen day on oct. 9th. the viking boat is launched, rowed around the river a bit, and a wreath is placed at leif’s statue.
i usually take the day off when evanovich’s new book hits the stores in june or july.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/27 "2008-01-01T23:09:43Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach]
Yeah, let’s put that to a vote and see how many guys prefer pi day.
[/QUOTE]
I say we combine them: steak, BJ and pie day.
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### Author:  [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/28 "2008-01-01T23:45:13Z")
I’m another who was completely charmed by Prehistoric Creatures Day, and will be ‘adopting’ (i.e. buying at the dollar store) some Prehistoric Creatures so we can take them out to dinner. Now, is it every Friday the 13th? Someone set me clear on this!
I also enjoy Talk Like a Pirate Day. This is part of the reasons why I think I’m the odd person in my office.
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### Author:  [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/29 "2008-01-02T00:51:42Z")
[QUOTE=Rick]
March 14th, the greatest holiday [ever](http://www.steakandbjday.com/).
😃
[/QUOTE]
What’s the highest # of BJs you given in celebration on any one holiday?
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/30 "2008-01-02T03:28:40Z")
Well, I usually try to take a day to remember the trinity…
The [_atomic_ Trinity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_site), every July 16th!
I really keep meaning to celebrate [Yuri’s Night](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%27s_Night).
And, technically, like many others, I only celebrate a bastardized, corrupted version of Christmas compared to the original incarnation. But hey, what’s Christmas without elves and talking snow-creatures and rampant materialism? 😃
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### Author:  [@robotic\_panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robotic_panda)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-holidays-you-celebrate/431490/31 "2008-01-02T11:41:25Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85]
As far as celebrity birthdays go, I also celebrate Mr. T’s birthday- or, as it’s officially called for me, “I Pity The Fool Who Don’t Know It’s Mr. T’s Birthday!”
[/QUOTE]
I celebrate Mr. T’s birthday too! It also happens to be mine, but that’s just a coincidence.
I came in here to mention Festivus, glad to see it only had to get to post #4 for a mention! A Festivus for the rest of us!
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