# Your 2006 Calendar **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392 "2006-01-04T14:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/21 "2006-01-04T22:07:40Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > I did, however, buy a calendar for someone else: I got my mother a 2006 [Weird N.J.](http://www.weirdnj.com/store/product.php?productid=34&cat=250&page=1) calendar, because she’s from Jersey and loves that website. 🙂 The exact calendar I bought today at lunch to replace _last year’s_ Weird NJ calendar, which was a gift from my Dad–Tillie is also smiling down at me … and freaking out my coworkers, though most of them recognized the face as soon as they saw it. At home, I have a Superman calendar that somebody gave me for Christmas. I would have brought it into work, but I like it enough that I want to write the _important_ stuff on that one … like, when parties are and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/22 "2006-01-04T22:34:25Z")
Home - Get Fuzzy daily calendar Work - 365 Worst Things Ever Said daily calendar, Demotivation wall calendar, plus a blotter calendar and a plain desk flip calendar for notes. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/23 "2006-01-04T22:36:41Z")
On the desk, I have the 365 Bottles of Beer For The Year calendar, courtesy of the Bus Kid. Wonder if she’s getting at something there?? :eek: On the big wall, I have the vendor-supplied July-June calendar including a big-ass picture of, yeah a bus. The Day Timer is on the desk, open. Though this year I changed from the 2-page a day to 1-page a day, because I don’t take so many notes on that anymore, usually carrying a legal pad for that, or this stupid laptop I seem to be married to, Stuck to the bulletin board next to me is a laminated January calendar hanging by a pin. I use the Olympus program to make a new one each month featuring one of my own pictures, and one for the Bus Wife as well. Hers usually has a picture of [Erica](http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a39/keylimepie630/cat%20pictures/screwyouimgoingin.jpg), who died on us in August, or of the Bus Kid. This months January for me is [this one](http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a39/keylimepie630/cat%20pictures/wherescuervo.jpg) in which Cuervo discovered that the Christmas tree is in fact, a tree and thus eligible for climbing. I got too many calendars here, now that I think about it because I just realized there are two others up here that I didn’t even mention. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/24 "2006-01-04T23:07:47Z")
At work I have our corporate calendar, which I was in charge of this year. I wrote all the text for each month’s member or department profile, hired photographers in three countries to take pictures of our profiled members/departments, and selected and edited the photos we used for each. 25,000 have been distributed in the US, Canada and Australia. I have another one of those at home to write all our bills on, since that’s what’s paying our bills to begin with. 🙂 In my kitchen I have the annual recipe calendar from Kraft, which came free in the mail. Near my bed I have a calendar of _The Endless Summer_, featuring lovely shots of guys surfing four decades ago. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/25 "2006-01-04T23:12:39Z")
My wall calendar at home is the Denver Zoo. I get one every year as part of my membership. Work is the normal blah work wall calendar. I also have a Chicago Reader calendar that I haven’t yet decided if I’m brave enough to hang at work. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/26 "2006-01-04T23:14:05Z")
I have an American scenery calendar at home. At work and school, I use Yahoo Calendar, since I can get that anywhere and don’t have to carry a datebook. Robin ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/27 "2006-01-05T00:09:20Z")
On my desk I have a spiral bound calendar/planner from the Stephen King Library. On my walls I have: Easter Seals and Alzheimer’s Association (flowers and paintings). I am waiting for my Demotivators Calendar to arrive from Despair dot com. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/28 "2006-01-05T00:18:34Z")
I got two calendars for Christmas. Bedroom: St. Louis Cardinals wall calendar Kitchen: “Stars of NASCAR” wall calendar ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/29 "2006-01-05T01:35:35Z")
Because I love art deco and vintage posters, I bought: 1. one with vintage European travel posters 2. one with vintage Canadian train posters For Christmas I received: 1. a Scrabble page-a-day calendar for work because I’m a Scrabble fiend 2. one with Tom Thomson art because I love the Group of Seven. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/30 "2006-01-05T01:41:02Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Hanging up on my bulletin board I’ve got “Lady Cottingham’s Fairies” by Brian Froud–great ink-and-watercolour illustrations of fairies, very playful and impish and pretty. I had one of those a few years ago! I liked it. Splat! Hee! Last year we had an X-Men calendar, which was a gift. This year, oddly, we have no calendars. We usually get them as gifts for Christmas, but this year, no one got us one. I feel kind of naked and scared. What day is it? _WHAT DAY IS IT?!_ :eek: ---
**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:** [January 5, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/31 "2006-01-05T01:46:21Z")
on the porch wall calendar get fuzzy small monthly calendar eas, shoots & leaves daily calendar little hallmark give a way monthly calendar ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/32 "2006-01-05T01:47:04Z")
I have the Columban Catholic calendar on the wall in the kitchen at home. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/33 "2006-01-05T02:02:51Z")
I’ve got one showing historic photos of Auckland, another which is a friendship calendar (nice pics, nice sayings) and a “Spirit of Aotearoa” calendar. I’m pretty well sussed for telling which day of the week it is, now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/34 "2006-01-05T02:14:18Z")
[quote] Oh, and I just wanted to tell CalMeacham what a great idea starting this thread was! [/uote] Great Minds Run in the Same Channel, they say. I love the way the ad at the bottom is for “M.C. Escher prints”, even with only one mention in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/35 "2006-01-05T02:28:48Z")
For the…oh gosh, it’s got to be at least 5 years, though maybe more…years in a row, I have [this one](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076113719X/103-5078851-6652638?v=glance&n=283155). I love the illustrations, and it’s way handy. I bought [this one](http://www.cedco.com/search1.asp?keywords=outhouses) for my son, which amused us both. We also have three wall-hanging chinese ones, which are very pretty once the advertising is hidden. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/36 "2006-01-05T03:35:29Z")
I’m a history and map fan: [http://www.calendars.com/product.asp?IID=23535&PID=1&MGID=-1&kbid=3400](http://www.calendars.com/product.asp?IID=23535&PID=1&MGID=-1&kbid=3400) > [@](#): > > This fascinating 20-month calendar for 2006 is richly illustrated with the work of many great cartographers, from Ptolemy of ancient Egypt to the golden age of mapmaking that traced the routes of Columbus, Magellan, and other European explorers. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/37 "2006-01-05T03:46:29Z")
I have a [Magic Eye](http://www.magiceye.com/product/calendar/2006note.html) calendar. I love those things. I started getting one every year about 5 years ago. (There are some examples of the 3D pictures if you wander around that link.) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/38 "2006-01-05T04:17:14Z")
Just like last year, I stared at a bunch of 'em and wound up buying the pretty [Marc Chagall one.](http://a1204.g.akamai.net/7/1204/1401/05042811011/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/9580000/9588176.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/39 "2006-01-05T04:24:21Z")
Wall calendar with roller coasters - January is X at Magic Mountain, almost more fun to look at than to ride. Page-a-day of America the Calendar (all your favorite moments of America the Book in convenient calendar form) Page-a-day of Wacky Websites. ---
**Author:** ![vertizontal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ad7895/32.png) [@vertizontal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertizontal)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392/40 "2006-01-05T15:20:05Z")
On the side of my cube at work I’ve got the **AOPA Air Safety Foundation** calendar. For the month of January, it has a picture of a Cirrus SR22-GTS with the following Safety Tip: _Particularly with a new aircraft, be conservative when calculating critical measures such as takeoff of landing distances or fuel requirements. ASF recommends adding 50% to POH distances and at least an hour’s worth of reserve fuel for any flight._ I also see a factoid on Saturday that the first balloon flight across the English Channel occurred on January 7, 1785. I put my daily notes in **The Far Side Mating Rituals 2006 Desk Calendar**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-2006-calendar/338392.md?page=3)