November 2010
70 posts
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Holidays 10.31
Apple & Candle Night (Wales) Books For Treats Day Dookie Apple Night (Newcastle, UK) Festival of Inner Worlds Halloween Increase Your Psychic Powers Day Magic Day National Keg Day National Knock-Knock Day National UNICEF Day Nevada Statehood Day (#36; 1864) Old Celtic New Year’s Eve Reformation Day Samhain Thump-the-Door Night (Isle of Man) Trick or Treat or...
Nov 1st
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Nov 1st
October 2010
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Oct 31st
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Oct 31st
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“Drink to the point of hilarity.”
–  St. Thomas Aquinas
Oct 31st
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Holidays 10.30
Buy-A-Doughnut Day Checklists Day Create a Great Funeral Day Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions (for Soviet Republics, except Ukraine) Devil’s Night (Michigan) Frankenstein Friday Haunted Refrigerator Night Look in the Back of Your Refrigerator Day Mischief Night National Forgiveness Day
Oct 31st
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“Drunkards are doomed to hell, so men declare, Believe it not, ‘tis but a...”
–  Omar Khayyam
Oct 30th
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Holidays 10.29
Festival of Global Climate Change Frankenstein Friday [Friday nearest Halloween] Hide From Everyone Day Independence Day (Turkey; from Ottoman Empire, 1923) Laugh Suddenly For No Reason A Lot Today Day National Disgusting Little Pumpkin-Shaped Candies Day National Oatmeal Day
Oct 30th
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Oct 30th
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“Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don’t drink too much. Then again,...”
–  Herman “Jackrabbit” Smith-Johannsen
Oct 29th
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Holidays 10.28
Independence Day (Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic; from Austria-Hungary, 1918) National Chocolate Day Ochi! Day (Greece) Time Day Wild Foods Day
Oct 29th
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“Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.”
–  W.H. Davies
Oct 28th
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Holidays 10.27
American Beer Day Big Bang Day Bring Your Jack-O-Lantern Day Cranky Coworkers Day Independence Day (Saint Vincent & Grenadines; from UK, 1979) Independence Day (Turkmenistan; from USSR, 1991) National Potato Day Navy Day Radio Day Wild Foods Day
Oct 28th
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“…there is only one game at the heart of America and that is baseball, and...”
–  Peter Richmond
Oct 27th
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Holidays 10.26
Angam Day (Nauru) Horseless Carriage Day Independence Day (Austria; from Allies of WW2, 1955) International Red Cross Day Mule Day National Mincemeat Pie Day
Oct 27th
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“It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised...”
–  Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856
Oct 26th
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Holidays 10.25
Cartoonists Against Crime Day Dioscuri (Shoemaker’s Day) Labor Day (New Zealand) [4th Monday] Mother-In-Law Day National Greasy Foods Day Punk-For-A-Day Day Sourest Day
Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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“Reality is a Hallucination Caused by The Lack of Good Beer!”
–  Seen on a t-shirt for the Blue Tusk Pub
Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
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Holidays 10.24
Feast of Good & Plenty Independence Day (Zambia; from UK, 1964) Maladay (Discordian) Mother-In-Law Day [4th Sunday] National Bologna Day United Nations Day World Development Information Day (UN)
Oct 25th
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“A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.”
–  Samuel Johnson
Oct 24th
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“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a...”
–  Friedrich Nietzsche
Oct 23rd
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Holidays 10.22
Eat a Pretzel Day Feast of Fools Festival of the House of Mercy Jidai Matsuri (Festival of the Eras; Kyoto, Japan) National Barber’s Day National Color Day National Nut Day World’s End Day (Millerism)
Oct 23rd
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Oct 23rd
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“O for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool’d a long age in the...”
–  John Keats
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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Holidays 10.21
Babbling Day Festival of Parlor Shamanism Get Smart About Credit Day [3rd Thursday] Get To Know Your Customer Day [3rd Thursday] International Credit Union Day [3rd Thursday] International Day of the Nacho (Mexico/US) Make a Difference Day National Shut-In Day Take Time & Watch the Sunset Day Trafalgar Day (UK)
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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“If ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely...”
–  William James
Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Holidays 10.20
Birth of the Bab (Baha’i) Change Your Oil Day Feast of No Excuse For a Feast Hagfish Day [3rd Wednesday] International Chefs Day [ website ] International Juan Valdez Appreciation Day Kenyatta Day (Kenya) Miss American Rose Day Missouri Day (Missouri) [3rd Wednesday] Season of the Aftermath begins (Discordian) Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day [3rd Wednesday]
Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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“I don’t drink. I don’t like it. It makes me feel good.”
–  Oscar Levant
Oct 20th
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Holidays 10.19
Evaluate Your Life Day Feast of the Wicked Scam Yorktown Day
Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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“Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself...”
–  Michel de Montaigne
Oct 19th
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Holidays 10.18
Alaska Day Independence Day (Azerbaijan; from Russia, 1918) No Beard Day Pandrosos (Greek all-refreshing Goddess) Persons Day (Canada) St. Luke the Apostle’s Day (patron saint of brewers)
Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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“Drinking is an art, not a sport.”
–  Michael Moriarty
Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Holidays 10.17
Big Yellow Hat Day Gaudy Day Kanname-Sai Harvest Festival (Japan) Mulligan Day International Day For the Eradication of Poverty (UN) St. Audrey’s Day Fair (original tawdry fair; Isle of Ely, UK)
Oct 18th
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“See God? That is the easiest thing in the world. He always appears to me in the...”
–  Theologian Franz Bibfeldt, on the reality of visions
Oct 17th
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Holidays 10.16
Bridge Day (West Virginia) Department Store Day Dictionary Day Fall Astronomy Day Frabjous Day [3rd Saturday] Maintenance Personnel Day National Liqueur Day Sweetest Day [3rd Saturday] World Food Day (UN)
Oct 17th
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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
–  Oscar Wilde [it’s Wilde’s birthday today]
Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Holidays 10.15
Get Smart About Credit Day Global Handwashing Day International Credit Union Day International Day of Rural Women (UN) Mertz of All Possible Mertzes National Boss Day [weekday closest to 16th] National Grouch Day National Shut-In Visitation Day White Cane Safety Day
Oct 16th
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“There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach ya ’bout the raising of the wrist.”
– — Monty Python Philosopher’s Song http://hops.me/7f P.S. It’s Friedrich Nietzsche’s birthday today
Oct 15th
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Holidays 10.14
Be Bald and Be Free Day International Top Spinning Day National Dessert Day National Frump Day Peace Corps Day Vinternatsblot World Standards Day
Oct 15th
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Holidays 10.13
Clean the Crumbs Out of the Broiler Oven Day Emergency Nurses Day Festival of Unmediated Play Fontanalia (Old Roman God of Wells & Springs) International Day For Natural Disaster Reduction (UN) International Top Spinning Day Modern Mythology Day National Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work Day Yorkshire Pudding Day
Oct 14th