# I need odd holidays **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 17, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446 "2005-11-17T04:11:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/21 "2005-11-17T19:49:32Z")
You **wouldn’t** forget to add August 13, International Left-Handers’ Day, would you??? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/22 "2005-11-17T19:58:32Z")
> [@DogMom](#): > > You **wouldn’t** forget to add August 13, International Left-Handers’ Day, would you??? Oh your a leftist are you? So am I. Jim ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/23 "2005-11-17T20:31:44Z")
They’re witches - BURN them! ---
**Author:** ![SlowMindThinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/24 "2005-11-17T20:32:25Z")
I always thought everyone, including teachers and students, should get the first day of school off, so make it a holiday. ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/25 "2005-11-17T20:49:32Z")
_sniff_ You wouldn’t forget us Lefties, would you? You _are_ going to put August 13, **International Left-handers’ Day** on there, right? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/26 "2005-11-17T20:50:58Z")
Guy Fawkes day, November 5th. Star of the best episode of Daria ever. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/27 "2005-11-17T22:01:40Z")
This week is National Children’s Book week. Read a kid’s book today! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/28 "2005-11-17T23:20:19Z")
When I lived in New Zealand I always liked the holiday for “the day after New Year’s Day” on 2 January. In 2006 it will actually fall on 3 January because the New Year’s Day holiday itself will occur on 2 January. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/29 "2005-11-17T23:40:13Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > The oddest holiday I ever heard of was Malvinas day in Argentina (June 12 or 13). As it was explained to me by my Argentine colleagues this was the day commemorating when they surrendered the Falkand Islands (Islas Malvinas) back to the UK. It’s hard to imagine the USA celebrating the fall of Saigon, for example. Or the Brits commemorating Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown. Well, Dunkirk gets a fairly rosey-eyed treatment in Britain as a victorious defeat ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/30 "2005-11-18T00:09:21Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Well, Dunkirk gets a fairly rosey-eyed treatment in Britain as a victorious defeat You ended up winning that one; lost the battle but won the war. Not quite the case for the Argos. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/31 "2005-11-18T03:46:22Z")
My birthday (December 16) is Barbie and Ken Backlash Day. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/32 "2005-11-18T04:13:57Z")
In the US, in most years, April 15th is the day your tax return must be in the mail. Consequently, most American CPAs take that day off, after having worked long hard hours since January 1st. They figure (!) their clients either have it all done by the 14th, or have filed for extensions. Number-crunchers from sea to shining sea go out and get crunched. When the 15th is on a Sunday, the deadline is extended. ---
**Author:** ![herownself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8baadc/32.png) [@herownself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herownself)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/33 "2005-11-18T19:31:14Z")
November 16 is Worldwide GIS Day. (GIS being Geographic Information Systems). And in our celbration of that at CDC (centerc for disease control and prevention) I won a USB drive for knowing that September 19 is International Talk like a Pirate Day. The USB drive is from the PHIN (public Health Information Network) (I wanted to see how many acronyms I could work into that post. After all, I do work for the federal government and one of our most important jobs is making up acronyms for things so that not even we know what we’re talking about any more.) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/34 "2005-11-18T20:45:30Z")
For decades I always took a walk the Sunday after New Years Day. After the holidays have passed and the decorations are down, you need a day to comtemplate your life and where it’s going and what has changed, yada yada yada. When I read in Robert Fulghum’s “It was on Fire When I Lay Down on it” I was amazed to discover he does the same thing and calls it “Pondering Day.” ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/35 "2005-11-19T01:58:30Z")
beethoven’s birthday, dec.16th leif eriksen day oct. 9th r.c. day sept. 30th ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446/36 "2005-11-19T02:51:34Z")
November 18th: Independence Day in Latvia! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-odd-holidays/331446.md?page=1)