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June 2012

46 posts

Holidays 5.31

  • Beer Judge Day
  • Big Ben Day
  • Castile-La Mancha Day (a.k.a. Dia de Castilla la Mancha; Spain)
  • Independence Day (South Africa; Union of South Africa declared, 1910; Republic of South Africa declared, 1961)
  • Lady Godiva Day
  • Macaroon Day
  • Save Your Hearing Day
  • Speak In Complete Sentences Day
  • Syaday (Discordian)
  • Take This Job and Shove It Day
  • What You Think Upon Grows Day
  • World No Tobacco Day (UN)
May 31, 20121 note
#calendar #Holidays

May 2012

48 posts

“A little bit of beer is divine medicine.” — Paracelsus, Greek physician
May 31, 2012
#beer #beer quotes #quotations
Holidays 5.30

  • Anguilla Day
  • Canary Islands Day
  • Frigg’s Day (Norse Queen of Heaven)
  • Kaamatan Harvest Festival begins (Kadazandusuns; Malaysia)
  • Loomis Day
  • Mint Julep Day
  • My Bucket’s Got A Hole In It Day
  • National Senior Health and Fitness Day
  • St. Walston’s Day (patron of farmers)
  • Water a Flower Day
  • World MS Day [Last Wednesday]
May 31, 20121 note
#calendar #Holidays
Holidays 5.29

  • Ambarvailia (Old Roman Purification Festival to Ceres)
  • Coq au Vin Day
  • End of the Middle Ages Day
  • Hope Day
  • International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (UN)
  • International Jazz Day
  • Loomis Day
  • Luilak (Lazy Bones Day; Belgium)
  • Rhode Island Statehood Day (#13; 1790)
  • Rite of Spring Day
  • Royal Oak Day (a.k.a. Bobby Ack Day, Nettle Day, Oak Apple Day, Yak Bob Day; UK)
  • Shick-Shack Day (aka Shitsack Day, Shik-Shak Day; UK)
  • Wisconsin Statehood Day (#30; 1848)
May 29, 20121 note
#calendar #Holidays
Holidays 5.28

  • Amnesty International Day
  • Brisket Day
  • Decoration Day [Last Monday]
  • Derg Downfall Day (Ethiopia)
  • Feast of Zerowork
  • Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]
  • Hug Your Cat Day
  • Independence Day (Armenia; from Ottoman Empire, 1918)
  • Independence Day (Azerbaijan; from Russian Empire, 1918)
  • Memorial Day [Last Monday]
  • National Hamburger Day
  • National Multiple Births Awareness Day
  • Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day [Last Monday]
  • Slugs Return From Capistrano Day
  • Tano Day (aka Swing Day; Korea)
  • Whale Day
May 28, 20121 note
#calendar #Holidays
Holidays 5.27

  • Birthday of the Buddha
  • Bloomer Day
  • Cellophane Tape Day
  • Clean Sneakers Appreciation Day
  • Dia de la Madre (a.k.a. Mother’s Day; Bolivia)
  • Grape Popsicle Day
  • National Buttercup Day
  • National Wig Out Day
  • Old-Time Player Piano Day
  • Season of Confusion begins (Discordian)
  • Throw the Bastards Out Day
May 28, 20121 note
#calendar #Holidays
“There is food in beer, but there is no beer in food. Beer is like liquid bread — it provides the same necessary nutrients. I say, just lay off the food.” — Jim Koch
May 27, 2012
#beer #beer quotes #quotations
Holidays 5.26

  • Blueberry Cheesecake Day
  • Dzien Matki (a.k.a. Mother’s Day; Poland)
  • Feast of VooDoo Economics
  • Go Barefoot Around the House Day
  • Grey Day
  • Independence Day (Georgia; from Russia, 1918)
  • Independence Day (Guyana; from UK, 1966)
  • National Day of Healing (Australia)
  • National Death Busters Day
  • National Paper Airplane Day
  • Sally Ride Day
  • Sorry Day (Australia)
  • Windmill Day (Netherlands)
May 26, 20121 note
#calendar #Holidays
“The troubles of our proud and angry dust, are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must, shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.” — A.E. Housman
May 26, 20123 notes
#beer #beer quotes #quotations #poetry
Holidays 5.25

  • Africa Day
  • Bojangles Day
  • Don’t Fry Day [Friday before memorial Day]
  • Flitting Day (Scotland)
  • Global Planking Day
  • Geek Pride Day
  • Gypsy Day
  • Independence Day (Jordan; from UK, 1946)
  • National Brown-Bag-It Day
  • National Don’t Utter a Word Day
  • National Missing Children’s Day
  • Revolution Day (Argentina)
  • National Tap Dance Day
  • National Wine Day
  • Poetry Day (Florida)
  • Saint Cool Day
  • Senior Health & Fitness Day
  • Towel Day
May 25, 2012
#calendar #Holidays
“Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.” — John Ciardi
May 25, 20123 notes
#beer #beer quotes #quotations
Holidays 5.24

  • Aldersgate Day (Methodism)
  • Bermuda Day
  • Brother’s Day
  • Camping with Barry White Day (David Letterman)
  • Commonwealth Day (Belize)
  • Escargot Day
  • European Day of Parks
  • Feast of Hermes Trismegistus (patron of alchemy)
  • Hug Your Cat Day
  • Independence Day (Ecuador; from Spain, 1822)
  • Independence Day (Eritrea; from Ethiopia, 1993)
  • International Tiara Day
  • The Mothers (Celtic Prosperity Festival)
  • National Coffee Day (Brazil)
  • National Scavenger Hunt Day
  • Play Kick the Can With A Kid Day
  • World Schizophrenia Day
May 24, 20121 note
#Holidays
“There is more to life than beer alone, but beer makes those other things even better.” — Stephen Morris
May 24, 20124 notes
#beer #beer quotes #quotations
“Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!” — Louis Untermeyer
May 23, 2012
#beer #beer quotes #quotations
“When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day.” — Congolese proverb
May 22, 20121 note
#beer #beer quotes #quotations
Holidays 5.21

  • Anastenarides Feast (Ancient Greek festival of dancing barefoot on hot coals)
  • Circassian Day of Mourning
  • End of the World Day 2011
  • Feast of the Triple Scoop
  • Festival of Demeter (Greek Barley Mother Goddess)
  • Hummel Day
  • Independence Day (Montenegro; from Serbia, 2006)
  • “I Need A Patch For That” Day
  • International Jazz Day
  • National Memo Day
  • National Waitstaff Day
  • Red Cross Day
  • Sanja Matsuri begins (Tokyo, Japan)
  • Strawberries and Cream Day
  • Victoria Day (Canada) [3rd Monday]
  • World Day For Cultural Diversity
May 21, 20121 note
#calendar #Holidays
“Said Aristotle unto Plato,
‘Have another sweet potato?’
Said Plato unto Aristotle,
‘Thank you, I prefer the bottle.’” — Owen Wister
May 21, 2012
#beer #beer quotes #quotations
Holidays 5.20

  • Beating of the Bounds (Old England)
  • Blue Jeans Day
  • Eliza Doolittle Day
  • Emancipation Day (Florida)
  • European Maritime Day (EU)
  • Go Fly A Kite With the Kids Day
  • I Am An American Day [3rd Sunday]
  • Independence Day (Cuba; from US, 1902)
  • Independence Day (East Timor; internationally recognized, 2002)
  • Lafayette Day (Massachusetts)
  • Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK)
  • Mecklenburg Day (NC)
  • Mjollnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor’s Hammer)
  • My Other Mother’s Day [3rd Sunday]
  • National Day of Hatred (Cambodia)
  • Quiche Lorraine Day
  • Weights and Measures Day
  • World Meteorology Day
May 20, 20121 note
#calendar #Holidays
Holidays 5.19

  • Armed Forces Day (US) [3rd Saturday]
  • Circus Day
  • Dark Day (New England)
  • Devil’s Food Cake Day
  • Do Dah Day (Birmingham, Alabama)
  • Greek Genocide Remembrance Day
  • International Chicken Flying Meet
  • Kirkland’s Warbler Day
  • Malcolm X Day (US)
  • May Ray Day
  • National Memo Day
  • Plant Something Day
  • Turn Beauty Inside Out Day
  • Youth and Sports Day (Turkey)
May 19, 20121 note
#calendar #Holidays
“Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.” — Hugh Hood
May 19, 20124 notes
#beer #beer quotes #quotations
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