September 2010
61 posts
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Holidays 8.31
Independence Day (Kyrgyzstan; from USSR, 1957) Independence Day (Malaysia; from UK, 1962) Independence Day (Trinidad and Tobago; from UK, 1962) International Blog Day [ website ] Love Litigating Lawyers Day National Language Day (Moldova)
Sep 1st
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August 2010
108 posts
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Aug 31st
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Aug 31st
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“Who does not know beer, does not know what is good. Beer makes the home...”
–  Sumerian proverb
Aug 31st
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Holidays 8.30
Burning Man begins (Nevada) Huey P. Long Day (Louisiana) International Day of the Disappeared Julienne Fries Day National Holistic Pet Day
Aug 31st
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Aug 30th
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Aug 30th
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“‘Drink took to me,’ said Simple. ‘Whiskey just naturally likes...”
–  Langston Hughes
Aug 30th
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Holidays 9.29
According To Hoyle Day Family Day (Tennessee) [last Sunday] Judgment Day (in the film “The Terminator”) More Herbs, Less Salt Day Nativity of Hathor (Egyptian Goddess of Joy & Drunkenness)
Aug 30th
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Aug 30th
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Aug 29th
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“The mouth of perfectly happy man is filled with beer.”
–  Egyptian proverb
Aug 29th
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Holidays 8.28
Festival of Neon Revolution Ho Sheep Market (Denmark) [last Saturday] National Cheese Sacrifice Day Nativity of Nephthys (Egyptian Goddess of Love) Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day St. Augustine of Hippo’s Day (patron saint of brewers) Wedding of the Giants (Belgium) [4th weekend] World Sauntering Day
Aug 29th
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“I think hangovers are the body’s way of telling us we didn’t drink...”
–  Tidewater Joe
Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Holidays 8.27
The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day Feast of Incandescent Rebellion Independence Day (Moldova; from USSR, 1991) Nativity of Isis (Egyptian Goddess of Fertility) Oil & Gas Industry Appreciation Day Petroleum Day
Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Holidays 8.26
Alice Doesn’t Day Heroes’ Day (Namibia) Ilmater (Finnish Goddess of the Water Mother) Make Your Own Luck Day National Dog Day Women’s Equality Day
Aug 27th
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“I never met a pub I didn’t like.”
–  Pete Slosberg
Aug 26th
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Holidays 8.25
Great American Duck Day Healthy Lifestyle Day Independence Day (Uruguay; from Brazil, 1825) Kiss-And-Make-Up Day Love Litigating Lawyers Day National Banana Split Day National Don’t Utter a Word Day National Secondhand Wardrobe Day Opiconsivia (Roman festival to Ops, goddess of fertility)
Aug 26th
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“The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for...”
–  Sir Walter Raleigh
Aug 25th
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Holidays 8.24
Bartholomew Fair (UK) Festival of Hungry Ghosts (China) [15th of 7th lunar month] Independence Day (Ukraine; from USSR, 1991) Mundus Patet (Roman harvest feast) Schaferlauf (Germany) St. Bartholomew’s Day (patron of cheese merchants) Vesuvius Day
Aug 25th
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“It’s extraordinary how friendly you can make a lot of people on a couple...”
–  Baron Frankenstein, in the 1931 film “Frankenstein”
Aug 24th
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Aug 24th
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Holidays 8.23
Day of Nemesea (Old Roman Goddess Nemesis, defender of the relics & memory of the dead from insults) Kirvis (Harvest Festival; Lithuania) National Plumber’s Day Permanent Press Day Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Day St. Bartholomew’s Day (patron saint of mead drinkers) International Day For the Elimination of the Slave Trade & Its Abolition (UN) Vertumnalia (Old Roman...
Aug 24th
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“With hekt (beer) the Ka (spirit) is kept in balance with the liver and blood —...”
–  Ancient Egyptian Physician
Aug 23rd
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Holidays 8.22
Be An Angel Day Go Topless Day [ website ] [Sun. nearest 26th] Rumpleskunkskin’s Wedding (Goblin celebration)
Aug 23rd
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Aug 22nd
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“They didn’t trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put...”
–  Michael Jackson
Aug 22nd
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“When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can,...”
–  Flann O’Brien
Aug 21st
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Aug 21st
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Holidays 8.20
Dogfight Day Independence Day (Estonia; from USSR, 1991) Moon’s Birthday (Aztec) National Lemonade Day National Men’s Grooming Day [3rd Friday] Virtual Worlds Day
Aug 21st
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Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
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“Beerlanthropy /noun/ Concern for the welfare and advancement of beer.”
–  Term coined by Bruisin’ Ales
Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
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Holidays 8.19
Festival of Random Access Memory Independence Day (Afghanistan; from UK, 1919) National Aviation Day National Soft Ice Cream Day Potato Day World Humanitarian Day
Aug 20th
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Aug 20th
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“The wise son brings joy to his father, but the wiser son brings beer.”
–  Mad Mordigan
Aug 19th
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Aug 19th
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Holidays 8.18
Bad Poetry Day Gambrinus Night (Ireland) Long Tan Day (Australia) Mail Order Catalog Day National Ice Cream Pie Day
Aug 19th
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“No free woman should be allowed any more than one maid to follow her, unless she...”
–  Zaleucus, 7th century BCE Greek law
Aug 18th
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Aug 18th
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Holidays 8.17
Archeology Day Independence Day (Gabon; from France, 1960) Independence Day (Indonesia; from Netherlands, 1945) Odin’s Ordeal begins (Norse) National Thrift Shop Day
Aug 18th
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“Beer will always have a definite role in the diet of an individual and can be...”
–  Bruce Carlton
Aug 17th
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Aug 17th
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Holidays 8.16
Harmonic Convergence Day Independence Day (Cyprus; from UK, 1960; but celebrated 10/1) Joke Day Monty Python Day National Rum Day
Aug 17th
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“Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are...”
–  William Butler Yeats
Aug 16th
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Aug 16th
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Holidays 8.15
Best Friend’s Day Chauvin Day Dog Days of Summer end Ferragosto (Oven of August; Italy) Great Mother Goddess Day Independence Day (India; from UK, 1947) Independence Day (a.k.a. Liberation Day; South Korea; from Japan, 1945) Loaded Dice Day National Failures Day National Relaxation Day
Aug 16th