January 2011
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Holidays 1.31
Feast of Great Typos Festival of Trasmission Errors Independence Day (Nauru; from Australia, 1968) Inspire Your Heart With the Arts Day National Brandy Alexander Day National Seed Swap Day Play A Game You Haven’t Played In Years Night Scotch Tape Day St. Veronus’ Day (patron saint of Lambeek & Belgian brewers) Valkyries’ Day (Norse)
Jan 31st
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“The closest I’ll ever get to bacon for breakfast is a Blind Pig.”
–  Don Younger
Jan 31st
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Holidays 1.30
Escape Day Festival of Peace Inane Answering Message Day National Croissant Day Yodel For Your Neighbors Day
Jan 31st
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“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger, or a beer.”
– Confucius
Jan 30th
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Holidays 1.29
Feast of Overdue Expectations Freethinker’s Day Kansas Statehood Day (#34; 1861) National Corn Chip Day National Puzzle Day Potato Day Thomas Paine Day Weisse Beer Day
Jan 30th
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“Everybody has to believe in something … I believe I’ll have another...”
– W.C. Fields
Jan 29th
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Holidays 1.28
Bald Eagle Day Blueberry Pancake Day Data Privacy Day Fun At Work Day Hall of Fame Day International Make Your Point Day Love Among the Nations Day Make Your Point Day National Kazoo Day National Serendipity Day National Spieling Day
Jan 29th
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“I drink to make other people interesting.”
– George Jean Nathan
Jan 28th
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Holidays 1.27
Birth of Uncanny Conjectures Day Brussels Lace Day Festival of Root Vibrations International Holocaust Remembrance Day National Chocolate Cake Day National Speak Up & Succeed Day Punch the Clock Day
Jan 27th
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“This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more...”
– Friar Tuck, in the film Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
Jan 27th
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Holidays 1.26
Australia Day Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day Michigan Statehood Day (#26; 1837) National Peanut Brittle Day National Popcorn Day Pistachio Day Spike the Punch Day Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement
Jan 26th
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“Whoever serves beer or wine watered down, he himself deserves in them to drown.”
– Medieval plea for pure libations
Jan 26th
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Holidays 11.25
Better Business Communication Day Burns Night (Scotland) Dinner Party Day Festival of Constructive Energy Observe the Weather Day Old Disting (Norse) A Room of One’s Own Day
Jan 25th
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“Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.”
– Robert Burns
Jan 25th
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Holidays 1.24
Beer Can Day Belly Laugh Day Eskimo Pie Day National Compliment Day National Peanut Butter Day Paul’s Pitcher Day Sementivae begins (Ancient Roman festival honoring Ceres (Goddess of Agriculture) and Tellus (Mother Earth). St. Francis de Sales’ Day (patron of journalists, editors, writers) Tricknology Day
Jan 25th
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“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.”
– Kaiser Wilhelm
Jan 24th
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Holidays 1.23
Birthday of the Grand Duchess (Luxembourg) Bounty Day Day of Hathor (Egyptian Goddess of Drunkeness) Grandmother’s Day (Bulgaria) Lichtenstein Foundation Day Measure Your Feet Day National Handwriting Day National Pie Day Rhuburb Pie Day
Jan 24th
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“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh,...”
– Dave Barry
Jan 23rd
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Holidays 1.22
Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day Celebration of Life Day Dance of the 7 Veils Day Erotic Festival Day Festival of Invoking & Banishing Festival of the Orgone Independence Day (Ukraine; Unification, 1919) National Blond Brownie Day
Jan 22nd
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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
– Oscar Wilde
Jan 22nd
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Holidays 1.21
Feast of Jolly Roger International Hot & Spicy Food Day National Granola Bar Day National Hugging Day New England Clam Chowder Day Own Your Own Home Day Women In Blue Jeans Days begin
Jan 21st
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“Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.”
– John Ciardi
Jan 21st
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Holidays 1.20
Aquarius zodiac sign begins Babin Den (Grandmother’s Day; Bulgaria) Basketball Day Cheese Lover’s Day Guys Night Out [3rd Thursday] National Buttercrunch Day Penguin Awareness Day Take A Walk Outdoors Day
Jan 20th
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“Blessed is the mother who gives birth to a brewer.”
– Czech proverb
Jan 20th
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Holidays 1.19
Artist As Outlaw Day Brew a Potion Day Confederate Heroes Day (Texas) Popcorn Day Rid the World of Fad Diets & Gimmicks Day Tenderness Toward Existence Day
Jan 19th
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“Filled with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such...”
– Lines on Ale (1848) by Edgar Allen Poe (January 19, 1809 – 1849)
Jan 19th
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Holidays 11.18
Four an’ Twenty Day (Scotland) Jazz Day Thesaurus Day Winnie the Pooh Day
Jan 18th
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“An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks just as much as you do.”
– Dylan Thomas
Jan 18th
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Holidays 1.17
Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral Day Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions Day Felcitas (Old Roman Goddess of Good Luck) Fire From the Sky Day Hot Buttered Rum Day Judgment Day Kid Inventors’ Day Martin Luther King Day [3rd Monday] National Feedback Day National Public Employees Appreciation Day Pig Day Straying Toward the Path Day
Jan 18th
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“There can’t be good living where there is not good drinking.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Jan 17th
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Holidays 1.16
Appreciate A Dragon Day Book Publishers Day Concordia (Old Roman Goddess of Harmonious Relations) Haru-No-Yabuiri (Japan) National Good Teen Day National Nothing Day Religious Freedom Day There’s No Business Like Show Business Day World Religion Day [3rd Sunday]
Jan 17th
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“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I...”
–  Jack Handy, Saturday Night Live
Jan 16th
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Holidays 1.15
Coming of Age Day (Japan) Craft-Brew Day (Berkeley, California) Feast of the Abbot of Unreason Hat Day Humanitarian Day International Fetish Day Massage Parlor Day Procrastinator’s New Year Seijn-No-Hi (Coming of Age Day; Japan) Strawberry Ice Cream Day Top Junk-Food News Stories Day Wassailing the Apple Trees
Jan 16th
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“Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for...”
– Dave Barry
Jan 15th
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Holidays 1.14
Cakes and Ale Day (England) Feast of the Ass (Medieval Christianity) Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day National Dress Up Your Pet Day Ratification Day (U.S.) Take a Missionary to Lunch Day Vinegrower’s Day (Bulgaria)
Jan 14th
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“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep...”
– Ernest Hemingway
Jan 14th
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Holidays 1.13
Blame Someone Else Day Change of Style Day Door-to-Door Salespeople Day Festival of the Body of Habits Old New Year’s Eve (Russia, Wales; Julian Calendar) Peach Melba Day Radio Day Silvesterklause (Switzerland) Strive and Succeed Day Tiugunde Day (Old England) Tyvendedagen (a.k.a. 20th Day of Knut; Norway) Zero Birth Day
Jan 13th
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“Beer is the center of everything. Everything revolves around beer. When you...”
– University of Waterloo Engineers
Jan 13th
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Holidays 1.12
Bikini Appreciation Day Curried Chicken Day Eat Crackers & Whistle Day Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Festival of Sarasyati (Hindu Goddess of Wisdom) Lift Every Voice and Sing Day National Marzipan Day Organize Your Home Day Ullr Festival (Mythical God of Winter) Work Harder Day Working Woman’s Appreciation Day
Jan 13th
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“History flows forward in rivers of beer.”
– Anonymous
Jan 12th
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Holidays 1.11
Banana Boat Day Carmentalia (Old Roman Festival to 9 Muses) Hot Toddy Day International Thank You Day Juturna (Prophetic Waters Festival) National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day National Unity Day (Nepal) Rid the World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day [2nd Tuesday] Send a Dollar to the Treasury Day Smoking May Be Hazardous To Your Health Day Use More of Your Mind Day...
Jan 11th
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“Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with...”
– Hugh Hood
Jan 11th
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Holidays 1.10
Bittersweet Chocolate Day Coming of Age Day (Japan) [2nd Monday] Common Sense Day League of Nations Day National Cut Your Energy Costs Day Peculiar People Day Speck Day
Jan 10th
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“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it...”
– Frank Zappa
Jan 10th
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Holidays 1.9
Apricot Day Bash-a-Pom Day Connecticut Statehood Day (#5; 1788) Dotty Day Feast of the Black Nazarene Meitlisunntig (Switzerland) [2nd Sunday] National Static Electricity Day Play God Day Stepfather’s Day
Jan 9th
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“Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you...”
–  Omar Khayyan, The Rubiay’at
Jan 9th
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Holidays 1.8
English Toffee Day Feast of St. Gudula (patron of Brussels) Jackson Day (Louisiana) National JoyGerm Day Redistribution of Wealth Day Rock ‘n’ Roll Day Show-and-Tell Day At Work Women’s Day (a.k.a. Midwife’s Day; Greece) World Literacy Day
Jan 9th
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“I feel sorry for those who don’t drink because when they get up in the...”
– Frank Sinatra
Jan 8th
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Holidays 1.7
Distaff Day (medieval Europe) Fasching begins (Germany) Fiesta del Tricolour (Tricolour Day; Italy) Harlem Globetrotters Day I’m Not Going To Take It Anymore Day Nanakusa (Festival of Seven Herbs; Japan) National Hangover Awareness Day National Run-For-Your-Life Day National Tempura Day Old Rock Day Orthodox Christmas Sekhmet (Ancient Egyptian New Year’s)
Jan 7th
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“He was a wise man who invented beer.”
– Plato
Jan 7th
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