December 2010
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Holidays 11.30
Cities For Life Day
Computer Security Day
Ham & Roast Beef Night
Independence Day (Barbados; from UK, 1966)
Independence Day (Yemen; from UK, 1967)
Judge A Book By Its Cover Day
Perpetual Youth Day
St. Andrew’s Day (patron of Scotland)
Stay Home Because You’re Well Day
You’re Welcome Day
November 2010
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“Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice.”
– Winston Churchill (it’s his birthday)
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Holidays 11.29
Cyber Monday [Monday after Thanksgiving]
Electronic Greetings Day
Feast of Great Expectations
Festival of the Sons of Saturn
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (UN)
National Chocolates Day
Newspaper Day
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“I distrust camels and anyone else who can go a week without drinking.”
– Joe E. Lewis
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Holidays 11.28
Independence Day (Albania; from Ottomans, 1912)
Independence Day (Mauritania; from France, 1960)
Independence Day (Panama; from Spain, 1821)
International Aura Awareness Day
John F. Kennedy Day (Massachusetts) [Last Sunday]
Make Your Own Head Day
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“Religions change, but beer and wine remain.”
– Harvey Allen
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Holidays 11.27
Family Day (Nevada)
Festival of Solitude
National Bavarian Cream Pie Day
Pins and Needles Day
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“Ale — not beer — in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a...”
– Guy de Maupassant, Twelve Men
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Holidays 11.26
Alice in Wonderland Day
Black Friday [Day after Thanksgiving]
Buy Nothing Day [Day after Thanksgiving]
Festival of Big Talk
Festival of Shadow Economies
Independence Day (Mongolia; from China, 1921)
Maize Day [4th Friday]
National Flossing Day
Sinkie Day (celebrate by eating over the sink) [Day after Thanksgiving]
You’re Welcomegiving Day [Day after Thanksgiving]
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“You can’t seriously want to ban alcohol. It tastes great, makes women appear...”
– Mayor Quimby, on The Simpsons
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Holidays 11.25
Beer & Turkey Day
Independence Day (Suriname; from the Netherlands, 1975)
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (UN)
National Don’t Utter a Word Day
Shopping Reminder Day (1 Month ‘till Xmas)
Thanksgiving
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“To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or...”
– Michael Jackson
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Holidays 11.24
Brumalia begins (Roman feast of Bacchus) [11.24-solstice]
Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day
D.B. Cooper Day
Evolution Day
Festival of Silence
National Espresso Day
National Opt-Out Day
Sinkie Day (celebrates eating over the sink)
Tie One On Day [day before Thanksgiving]
Use Even If Seal Is Broken Day
Women’s Merrymaking Day
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“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be...”
– Charles Baudelaire
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Holidays 11.23
Big Help Day
Labor Thanksgiving Day (Japan)
National Cashew Day
Niiname-Sai (Japanese Grain Festival)
Repudiation Day (Maryland)
Thespius’ Day (Greek Mischief Ghost)
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“In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and...”
– Samuel Johnson
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Holidays 11.22
Anchor Christmas Day [Monday for Thanksgiving]
Go For A Ride Day
Independence Day (Lebanon; from France, 1943)
National Roast Turkey Day
National Stop the Violence Day
Start Your Own Country Day
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“Wine is complicated, beer is complex.”
– Brett Joyce
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Holidays 11.21
Alascattalo Day (Alaska)
Buss & Bettag (Ancient Greece)
False Confessions Day
Family Volunteer Day [Sat. before Thanksgiving]
National Adoption Day
Nostalgia For the Future Day
North Carolina Statehood Day (#12; 1789)
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (UN) [3rd Sunday]
World Hello Day
World Television Day
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“Leave the flurry
To the masses;
Take your time
And shine your glasses.”
– Old Shaker saying
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Holidays 11.20
Absurdity Day
Africa Industrialization Day (UN)
Bill of Rights Day
Family Volunteer Day [Saturday before Thanksgiving]
Gettysburg Address Remembrance Day
Name Your PC Day
National Peanut Butter Fudge Day
Universal Children’s Day (UN)
Writing On the Wall Day
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“Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no...”
– Queen Victoria, English Monarch, 1819-1901
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Holidays 11.19
Discovery Day (Puerto Rico)
Equal Opportunity Day
Garifuna Day (Belize)
Group Rates For Group Souls Day
Have A Bad Day Day
International Make Someone Feel Uncomfortable Day
International Men’s Day
National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day
Please Maintain Your Focus Today Day
Rocky & Bullwinkle Day
World Toilet Day
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“Beer…the mother of all of us.”
– John Shepard
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Holidays 11.18
Beaujolais Day [3rd Thursday]
Great American Smokeout [3rd Thursday]
Have A Bad Day Day
Have Sex With A Guy With A Mustache Day [ website ]
Independence Day (Latvia; from Russia, 1918)
Independence Day (Morocco; from France & Spain, 1956)
Married To A Scorpio Support Day
Occult Day
World Fellowship Day
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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
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Holidays 11.17
Creative Alienation Day
Here To Go Day
Homemade Bread Day
International Students Day
Malabo Festival (Equitorial Guinea)
Struggle for Freedom & Democracy Day (Czech Republic)
Take A Hike Day
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“We brewers don’t make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the...”
– Fritz Maytag
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Holidays 11.16
Birth of the Blues Day
International Day For Tolerance (UN)
National Fast Food Day
National Moms and Dads Day
Oklahoma Statehood Day (#46; 1907)
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“I rose politely in the club
And said, I feel a little bored.
Will someone take...”
– G.K. Chesterton, A Ballade of An Anti-Puritan, 1915
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Holidays 11.15
America Recycles Day
Don’t Try To Do Everything Yourself Day
Dynasty Day (Belgium)
Festival of Total Submission
I Love To Write Day
Independence Day (Palestine; unilaterally declared, 1988)
King’s Feast (Belgium)
National Bundt Day
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
National Philanthropy Day
Sing in Your Car Day
St. Leopold’s Day (patron of Austria)
...
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“Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the...”
– George Borrow, 1851, Lavengro
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Holidays 11.14
Inuit Asking Festival (Eskimo)
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National Guacamole Day
Remembrance Day (UK) [2nd Sunday]
Volkstrauertag (Memorial Day; Germany) [Sunday before Totensontag]
World Diabetes Day (UN)
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“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the...”
– A.J.P. Taylor, British historian, 1984
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Holidays 11.13
Chuang Tzu’s Day
Feast of Feronia (Old Roman Fertility Goddess) [Ides of November]
Guinness World Records’ Day
Politzania Independence Day (Klaatu)
World Kindness Day
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“Who does not know beer, does not know what is good. Beer makes the home...”
– Sumerian proverb
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Holidays 11.12
Exotic Dancer’s Day
National Pizza With the Works Except Anchovies Day
Old Teutonic Yule Festival
Order of Fools
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“The Baker says, ‘I’ve the staff of life and you’re a silly...”
– 13th Century Anonymous
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Holidays 11.11
Armistice Day (Belgium, France, New Zealand)
Bonza Bottler Day
Death/Duty Day
Einherjar (Asatru)
Eleven Eleven Eleven Day (Netherlands)
Independence Day (Angola; from Portugal, 1975)
Independence Day (Poland; from Austro-Hungary, Prussia & Russia, 1918)
Lacplesa Day (Latvia)
Lunantishees (Ireland)
Martinigian (Switzerland)
Mortens Day (Denmark)
Origami Day (Japan)
...
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“Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.”
– Frederick the Great
Happy Veterans Day
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Holidays 11.10
Festival of Cybergnosticism
Festival of Spiritual Indulgence
Forget-Me-Not Day
The Goddess of Reason, Liberty & Philosophy Feast Day (France)
Mārtiņi (Ancient Latvia)
National Young Reader’s Day
Not A Father’s Day
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“I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink beer to celebrate a major event such...”
– Dave Barry
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Holidays 11.9
Chaos Never Died Day
Couch Beachcombing Day
Dia de los Natitas (Day of the Skulls; Bolivia)
Go To An Art Museum Today Day
Independence Day (Cambodia; from France, 1953)
National Scrapple Day
Schicksalstag (Fateful Day; Germany)
Tag der Erfinder (Inventor’s Day; Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
World Freedom Day
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“When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all...”
– J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man 