You wouldn’t forget to add August 13, International Left-Handers’ Day, would you???
Oh your a leftist are you?
So am I.
Jim
They’re witches - BURN them!
I always thought everyone, including teachers and students, should get the first day of school off, so make it a holiday.
sniff
You wouldn’t forget us Lefties, would you? You are going to put August 13, International Left-handers’ Day on there, right?
Guy Fawkes day, November 5th. Star of the best episode of Daria ever.
This week is National Children’s Book week. Read a kid’s book today!
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.
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.
My birthday (December 16) is Barbie and Ken Backlash Day.
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.
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.)
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.”
beethoven’s birthday, dec.16th
leif eriksen day oct. 9th
r.c. day sept. 30th
November 18th: Independence Day in Latvia! 