# Obscure holidays you celebrate **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 25, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288 "2017-09-25T15:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/21 "2017-09-26T04:15:42Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > All the solstices and equinoxes, taken together, are actually _more_ common, seeing as how they happen four times a year. Though relatively few people actually observe them as holidays. For most of us, they’re astronomical dates on the calendar, and get about a moment’s notice, at most. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/22 "2017-10-04T21:03:06Z")
Acadiana Day. In Louisiana, it’s the day after Thanksgiving. Weird coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/23 "2017-10-04T22:05:51Z")
We celebrated national Cheeseburger Day this year. Not sure if we’ll do it next year. I also found out that that national Martini Day is June 19, which happens to be Mr. Middon’s birthday. Since I was going to have a martini anyway I don’t think you can say I really celebrated it though. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/24 "2017-10-04T22:29:38Z")
I am pretty big on Cinco De Mayo, Guy Fawkes Night (I am American) and Groundhog Day. None of those are exactly obscure but it isn’t like stores have display cases full of merchandise for them or that most people celebrate them. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/25 "2017-10-04T22:51:26Z")
I seriously wish half christmas from Workaholics was a real holiday. But I’d feel weird celebrating June 25th by myself. Also not so much a holiday, but I’ve done calculations for my age and tried to celebrate certain round number landmarks. 10,000 days alive. Weeks alive that end in -000 (2,000 weeks alive comes up in a while). I’m not sure why people only celebrate annual birthdays. The average person lives about 30,000 days, which is about 4,000 weeks or 1,000 months. There are some landmarks in those numbers. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/26 "2017-10-05T06:02:53Z")
Let’s not forget National Gorilla Suit Day (January 31) when we put on our goriLla suits and distribute bananas to the deserving. This was due to Mad magazine’s Don Martin creating a series of cartoons celebrating such a day. After his death, somehow it got accepted to the point of it getting a Wikipedia page, but later his widow asked that the whole thing be forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/27 "2017-10-05T10:14:35Z")
I celebrate [U Day](http://www.fireflywiki.net/Firefly/SerenityValley) by wearing a brown coat and searching for an Alliance friendly bar. The fans seem to be settling on 9/20 as U Day, so it’s the day after Talk Like a Pirate day. I also celebrate [Jackie Cochran’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Cochran) birthday in May. I find it interesting that one of the world’s first female test pilots _died of old age_. Typically, test and race pilots from the 1940’s exited in a more spectacular fashion. If I understand the records, at the time of her death she held more speed, distance, and altitude records than any pilot on earth, male or female, living or dead. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/28 "2017-10-05T19:34:07Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > 10,000 days alive. Weeks alive that end in -000 (2,000 weeks alive comes up in a while). I’m not sure why people only celebrate annual birthdays. The average person lives about 30,000 days, which is about 4,000 weeks or 1,000 months. There are some landmarks in those numbers. Similar to this, I celebrate my birthday. It has only occurred on .0000012% of the days that earth has been around - now that’s obscure! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/29 "2017-10-05T20:56:31Z")
I always remind everyone whenever Kesha’s birthday (March 1) or Dan Rather’s birthday (Halloween) is coming around. On Kesha’s birthday, I don’t listen to any non-Kesha music. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/30 "2017-10-05T21:09:06Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > 10,000 days alive. Weeks alive that end in -000 (2,000 weeks alive comes up in a while). I’m not sure why people only celebrate annual birthdays. The average person lives about 30,000 days, which is about 4,000 weeks or 1,000 months. There are some landmarks in those numbers. I did celebrate my billionsecondiversary. No love for [prehistoric creatures day](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9205430&postcount=75)? Or is that not obscure enough round here? 😃 It’s next week, remember! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/31 "2017-10-05T21:33:56Z")
> [@icantdraw](#): > > I celebrate Snake Whacking Day. Luckily it corresponds with my birthday (May 10). > [@John\_Mace](#): > > You only get to do it on your birthday? 😃 My birthday is the only day that someone will do it for me. ☹ > [@Ponch8](#): > > I always remind everyone whenever Kesha’s birthday (March 1) or Dan Rather’s birthday (Halloween) is coming around. On Kesha’s birthday, I don’t listen to any non-Kesha music. So, you sit in silence all day? 😃 Around here, Halloween is Nevada Day. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/32 "2017-10-05T22:59:40Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I did celebrate my billionsecondiversary. > > No love for [prehistoric creatures day](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9205430&postcount=75)? Or is that not obscure enough round here? 😃 > > It’s next week, remember! [http://www.howlonghaveibeenalivefor.com/](http://www.howlonghaveibeenalivefor.com/) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/33 "2017-10-07T04:45:42Z")
How appropriate that this thread should be started during the Jewish holiday of [Sukkot](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot), my wife’s favorite holiday. It is probably known to most Jews, but is celebrated by a relatively small percentage of them in the U.S., and I daresay is unknown to the vast majority of non-Jews. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/34 "2017-10-07T04:54:32Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I did celebrate my billionsecondiversary. I sure hope you took account of those pesky leap seconds they’ve been inserting. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/35 "2017-10-07T05:21:04Z")
Here in Chicago, we do Pączki Day for Shrove Tuesday/Fat Tuesday (it is also celebrated in other cities with a Polish-American population). Actually, the more hard-core Poles will also do Fat Thursday a few days previous (in Poland, Fat Thursday is celebrated.) But, hey, two excuses to pig out on pączki! (Jelly-filled donuts, bismarks, whatever you want to call 'em. They’re made from a rich sweetened dough with milk, egg, and butter–kind of like a brioche dough, but deep fried like a donut–and traditionally filled with plum or rosehip jam, but many varieties exist). ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/36 "2017-10-07T14:01:22Z")
The International Mathematical Union is trying to create a “Mathematics Day”. Naturally for pi-day, 3-14. I will definitely celebrate it since it also just happens to be my anniversary and my wife and I always celebrate that. ---
**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:** [October 7, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/37 "2017-10-07T15:09:24Z")
PI days is one we do most years. Hobbit Day is the other one. September 22nd. This is the shared birthday of Bilbo & Frodo Baggins. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/38 "2017-10-07T15:42:10Z")
We do small observances of the quarter and cross-quarter days. We also wassail our apple tree in January. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/39 "2017-10-07T18:57:06Z")
**Talk Like a Pirate Day** falls on my eldest child’s birthday, so we combine the two for extra celebratory fun. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288/40 "2017-10-08T05:19:40Z")
I celebrate the birthday of the US Marine Corps, November tenth. I also celebrate myown birthday, which is also November tenth. I hang a Marine Corps flag in front of my house, and if I ever get around to designing and having made my own personnal flag, I will display both on November tenth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-holidays-you-celebrate/797288.md?page=3)