I’d have to agree. I think trying to “figure this out” with net resources and web search engines was deliberately designed by the contest originators to be a huge waste of time.
I’m going to quit trying to make sense of it. I suspect the answer is in some little known book in the community library of the radio station. I’ll just wait for the answer.
I HAVE THE ANSWER!
No doubt, no question, no guess.
I have located an alternative calendar, named after its inventor, that has a definite day called May 33rd, which is a holiday in leap years.
Since I never would have heard of this furshlugginer contest without the OP, I am willing to split the prize with pkbites (or his friend). I shall be in touch by e-mail.
I will reveal the answer once it is confirmed that it is correct. Then we can put this excruciating thread to sleep.
What is amazing to me is that I was able to find it fairly easily. It’s hard to believe it’s taken so long to solve it.
I just tried a quick search, and I can’t find any reference to this calendar on the web. I found it in a book.
Well, good for you if it pans out. And good for pkbites (or friend), that slacker!
But if you DO have the correct answer, promise you’ll remain the same sweet and unassuming Colibri we’ve come to love. In other words, that celebrity (fleeting as it may be) won’t go to your head.
Either my sarcasm meter is set too low, or I’ve been doing something wrong!
They just finished another “You Can’t Win”, Brian had another hint. He said " If you can find the answer to question 1, why can’t you find the answer to question 5?", which leads me to think that G. Etzel Pearcy may be in the same book as the creator of this unknown (except by Colibri) calendar. Back to the library tonight!
Yup, that clue makes perfect sense to me, and confirms that I am referring to the exact same source that they are. But I suspect you are probably not going to find it in the library unless it’s a very good one.
I may be going about this the wrong way but since the DJ’s have said, go to the library and start reading, I’d go to the library and find MAY.33 (Dewey decimal) in the stacks. Maybe it’s a book that has a new version published every four years, on leap year.
Sorry for the repeat if somone already suggested this. For all I know, MAY.33 may not even exist in the DD System.
Colibri…not that we’re impatient or anything but we are waiting. (TAP! TAP! TAP!) It’s time cap this thread in the head Sporanos style and put it (and all of us) out of our respective misery with this stupid question.
Congrats for finding the answer!
Go out there and win one for the SDMB! And when you do, please tell those people that I do not like them.
So do they do this thing every day? I’d like to hear about the logistics of getting on the air.
One more question: I’m really not going to give a rat’s ass about the answer, am I?
Patience all! We have to win the contest before I spill the beans. Let’s hope pk (with whom I have reached a preliminary agreement, with details being worked out) & company manage to be the lucky caller tonight.
No one would like to see this thread die more than I would.
I have to disagree with astro, I’d rather not have the answer put in this thread until someone wins the contest, especially since this thread is now linked to on that unofficial page. I’d hate to have some schmuck who has done NO research find the answer before I do just by linking from that page.
Mind if I use this as my sig?
Pwease?
All now depends on the dialing dexterity of pkbites and his friends. 
One thing Coli
Is it a groaner?
I imagine it’s going to be something just inanely obscure, like “In Joseph Whitinghall’s book discussing alternative calendars, the Gordon Fiske calendar (hexadeciamal, with 50 decimal days per month) is unique in having the Festival of Live Fishes on May 33, but only on leap year”.
But like the rest of us, I just want it to be over.
I had a dream last night about it, even, and i wasn’t even searching for the answer.
I walked into a bookstore and found a calendar just lying there labeled ‘Gordon ??? Decimal Calendar’ I opened it up, and much to my surprise found that on May 33, the “Festival of the World Forests” (Leap Year) was written there.
No, while obscure it is definitely not a trick question (as the DJs have confirmed). And the source where I found it, while not in every library, is not that impossibly hard to find. Dammit, I should have remembered it months ago - it just took some of the additional hints to jog my memory of where I had seen it before.
I will say no more, lest I give out too much information to the competition.
Colibri, I think I have it too. However, the festival is actually a week long, and does not occur only on May 33. 
Maybe the correct answer is “the last day of the ____ Festival”?
But of course you may use that line, Some Guy.
Summer Festival? (working on confirming this)