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May I Share With You Some May Holidays?

Make personalized calendars even more personal with the addition of peculiar dates; here are some for May.

FeeFiFoto has been producing personalized photo calendars as a core part of our business since we were established about five years ago.  Recently we added a bunch of new templates, a thousand or so pieces of clip art, and the capacity to arrange photos in collages instead of being limited to a single photo per page.  We've always had a feature that lets you enter your own family birthdays, anniversaries or special events.

Here, for your listening reading pleasure, is a list of May dates that will make your personalized calendars just a touch more ridiculous interesting.

1

Mother Goose Day
Save The Rhino Day

Kate Smith, b. 1909

2

Fire Day
Dr. Benjamin Spock, b. 1903
Baron Von Richthofen, b. 1892

3

Bing Crosby, b. 1907
Lumpy Rutherford Rug Day

 

4

National Candied Orange Peel Day
Audrey Hepburn, b. 1929

5

National Hoagie Day 
Karl Marx, b. 1818

6

Beverage Day
Sigmund Freud, b. 1856

7

International Tuba Day
Paste Up Day
National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, b. 1840

8

No Socks Day
Have A Coke Day

How does this differ from Beverage Day?

9

Lost Sock Memorial Day 

10

Clean Up Your Room Day
Fred Astaire, b. 1899

11 

Eat What You Want Day
Twilight Zone Day
Salvador Dali, b. 1904
Irving Berlin, b. 1888

12 

Limerick Day 
Katharine Hepburn, b. 1907

13 

Leprechaun Day
Joe Louis, b. 1914
Bea Arthur, b. 1923

14 

National Dance Like A Chicken Day 

15 

National Chocolate Chip Day 

16

Wear Purple For Peace Day
Liberace, b. 1919

Is there some connection here? 

17

Pack Rat Day

No, not Rat Pack -- Pack Rat!

18 

International Museum Day
Visit Your Relatives Day
Frank Capra, b. 1897

19

Frog Jumping Jubilee Day 
Malcolm X, b. 1925

20 

Eliza Doolittle Day 
Jimmy Stewart, b. 1908

21 

National Memo Day
National Waitresses/Waiters Day
Fats Waller, b. 1904

22 

Buy-A-Musical-Instrument Day
Richard Wagner, b. 1813

You can't play Wagner without musical instruments

23 

Rosemary Clooney, b. 1928
Penny Day

Because that's all you'll have left after spending a few grand on a piano 

24 

National Escargot Day 

25 

National Tap Dance Day
Ralph Waldo Emerson, b. 1803

26 

Grey Day
John Wayne, b. 1907
Jay Silverheels, b. 1919

27 

Body Painting Arts Festival
Wild Bill Hickock, b. 1837
Vincent Price, b. 1911

28 

National Hamburger Day
Ian Fleming, b. 1908

29 

End Of The Middle Ages Day

How can they be so sure the Middle Ages ended exactly on May 29th?

30 

My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Day 

31 

National Macaroon Day
Walt Whitman, b. 1819

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Make personalized calendars even more personal with the addition of peculiar dates; here are some for May.

FeeFiFoto has been producing personalized photo calendars as a core part of our business since we were established about five years ago.  Recently we added a bunch of new templates, a thousand or so pieces of clip art, and the capacity to arrange photos in collages instead of being limited to a single photo per page.  We've always had a feature that lets you enter your own family birthdays, anniversaries or special events.

Here, for your listening reading pleasure, is a list of May dates that will make your personalized calendars just a touch more ridiculous interesting.

Pi

Here.  I could see giving this clock to my father and then having to listen to him interpret and explain all its interpretations whether I needed to know or not.  Yeah, maybe I'll skip that part; it sounds like math to me.

here.   This is glass.  It portrays Pi to 1498 decimal places and it comes in all kinds of pretty colours (notice the British spelling on account of it comes from Britain).  The designer is donating 5 pounds (about eight dollars) from every pi bowl sold for the rest of March and all of April to the British Red Cross to help with relief efforts in Japan.

Here.  I don't get it.  Please don't try to explain.

Here.  This one I get.

Here.  ::giggle::  It's Pumpkin  Pi.  Get it?  Get it??!!

Okay, guess what day it is.

PS: This is neat too:

Today We Celebrate Vivaldi, Rockne and Robin

Today is Holy Experiment Day, as well as the birthday of Knute Rockne and Antonio Vivaldi.

Here's a picture of Knute Rockne, who played football at Notre Dame!

And here's a quote!

"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it."

Ouch!

And here's a picture of Antonio Vivaldi, who played the violin in Italy!

And here's a quote!

...

Hold on -- there aren't really any engaging Vivaldi quotes, so here's some music!

And finally, here's a picture of Robin, who had a Holy _______ statement for Batman in any situation so he probably said "Holy Experiment Batman!" at one point!

And here's a video of an entire TV season's worth of Robin Holy Whatever quotes!

Whew!

 

Today Is National Anthem Day

Now, we all know the name of our national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner Which Is Impossible To Sing Unless You're Celine Dion And She's Canadian Anyway. So here's a selection of anthems from other countries:

• Acadia - Star of the Sea, We Hail Thee.  Ummm... Acadia?  Anyone?
• African Union - African Union Anthem.  Catchy name
• Alaskan Republic - The Star-Spangled Banner.  Is this Sarah Palin's doing?  Because I thought Alaska was part of, you know -- us.
• Andorra - The Great Charlemagne.  Charlemagne.  At least they're loyal.  Charlemagne died in 814.
• Azerbaijan - National Anthem of the Republic of Azerbaijan.  This one sounds like it was titled by Borat.
• The Bahamas - March On, Bahamaland.  Seriously?  March on?  Where -- to the beach?
• Belarusian National Republic - Come, We Shall March in Joint Endeavor.  I don't think I could say this with a straight face. 
• Cameroon - Rallying Song.  Didn't we sing this one at summer camp?
• Canada - O Canada.  In all seriousness, I love O Canada.
• China, People's Republic of - The March of the Volunteers.  Oh yes, they are all volunteers.
• Cuba - The Bayamo Song.  Is that another way of spelling Babalu?
• Egypt - My Homeland, My Homeland, My Homeland.  Yeah yeah yeah. 
• Eritrea - Eritrea, Eritrea, Eritrea.  Again, yeah yeah yeah.
• France - La Marseillaise.  Love this one too.
• Guam - Stand Ye Guamanians.  Be honest -- did you know they were called Guamanians?
• Israel - Hatikvah.  Love this one too.  In fact, we believe an ancestor of my brother-in-law wrote it.
• Italy - the Song of the Italians.  Completely appropriate.
• Jamaica - Jamaica, Land We Love.  I was hoping for the Banana Boat Song.
• Jordan - Long Live the King!  I think the exclamation point is mandatory!
• Libya - God Is Greatest!  But only when Gaddafi has the day off.
• Netherlands Antilles - Anthem Without a Title.  Does this count as a title?

Strange March Holidays

Making personalized calendars even more personal with the addition of memorable dates; here are some for March

FeeFiFoto was one of the first web sites to offer a service for customers to upload photographs, design, create and edit their own customized calendars.  This was a vast improvement over relying on Kinko's to:

• scan your photos
• crop your photos
• add your captions
• create your calendars
• call you for pickup
• miss some knuckleheaded mistake requiring them to rerun the entire project
• repeat until you finally gave up because you were tired of driving to Kinko's

Creating your own photo calendars online is so easy that you could make a different design for each recipient, leaving out the birthdays of yucky in-laws on calendars for all other relatives. 

You want your personalized calendar to be such an entertaining memento that the reader not only will keep it but will refer to it over and over just for its entertainment value?  We're making that part easy too.

Did you know March 20 is Festival Of Extraterrestrial Abductions Day?  How could you not make this special event a centerpiece of your annual gift calendar?

See below for other interesting March dates:

March

1

National Pig Day
Peanut Butter Lover's Day
Harry Caray, b. 1914

2

Old Stuff Day
Dr. Seuss, b. 1904

3

I Want You To Be Happy Day
Peach Blossom Day
National Anthem Day
Alexander Graham Bell, b. 1847

4

Holy Experiment Day
Knute Rockne, b. 1888
Antonio Vivaldi, b. 1678

5

Multiple Personalities Day

Shouldn't multiple personalities be entitled to more than one day?

6

National Frozen Food Day
Lou Costello, b. 1906

7

National Crown Roast Of Pork Day
Maurice Ravel, b. 1875

Defrost your crown roast on the 6th; see above

8

Be Nasty Day

9

Panic Day
Amerigo Vespucci, b. 1454

10

Festival Of Life In The Cracks Day

11

Johnny Appleseed Day
Worship Of Tools Day
Ralph Abernathy, b. 1926

12

Alfred Hitchcock Day

13

Jewel Day

14

Pi Day

Can you guess why?

Albert Einstein, b. 1879

Big hint...

National Potato Chip Day

Has nothing to do with the two previous dates

See also National Tortilla Chip Day

15

Ides Of March
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day
Buzzards Day

This one makes complete sense:

• On the Ides of March Julius Caesar thought he was safe. 
• He was wrong. 
• Consequently, he was consumed by buzzards.

16

Everything You Do Is Right Day
James Madison, b. 1751
Henny Youngman, b. 1906

My mother sat next to Henny Youngman at the Carnegie Deli once.  True story.

17

Submarine Day
Nat "King" Cole, b. 1919

18

Supreme Sacrifice Day

19

Wyatt Earp, b. 1848
Poultry Day

In honor of Poultry Day we all do the Chicken Dance

20

Proposal Day
Festival Of Extraterrestrial Abductions Day
Fred "Mr." Rogers, b. 1928

21

Fragrance Day
Johann Sebastian Bach, b. 1685

22

National Goof-off Day

23

National Organize Your Home Office Day
National Chip And Dip Day

24

National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
Harry Houdini, b. 1874

Here's a hint: don't feed chocolate covered raisins to the dog.  Just a hunch, but I suspect you'll be cleaning up after her for a couple of days.  Plus, PLEASE NOTE: raisins, grapes and chocolate can be lethal to dogs.

25

Pecan Day
Waffle Day

26

Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
Spinach Festival Day

27

National "Joe" Day

28

Something On A Stick Day

29

Festival Of Smoke and Mirrors Day

30

I Am In Control Day
Vincent Van Gogh, b. 1853

Definitely wasn't in control

31

Bunsen Burner Day
National Clams On The Half Shell Day

What do you do in observance of Pi Day?

See also: February Strange Holidays

Visit FeeFiFoto to create personalized photo calendars with all kinds of unusual holidays.

This Is Public Sleeping Day

Not Public Speaking Day.  Public Sleeping Day.  So go ahead.  Sleep at your desk.  Sleep on the bus or train to and from work.  Sleep in class (but try not to drool on your quiz paper).  Sleep at the wheel but only at red lights.  Sleep in the library but it's probably a good idea to stay away from the horror section so you don't have nightmares and wake up screaming because you know you're supposed to shush in the library.

Guess What? It's International Polar Bear Day.

Let's learn a little bit about polar bears.

What do you mean you don't want to learn about polar bears?  It's always good to learn stuff.  Now sit down and shut up.

• Male adult polar bears can grow up to 12 feet long; the females can reach 9 feet.  This disparity in size enables the males to change the highest light bulbs while the females look up and kibitz.
• Polar bear fur isn't actually white -- it's colorless and the long hairs are hollow.  The hollow hairs trap infrared light to help keep the bear warm.
• On a scale of 1 to 10, polar bears cubs are just about the cutest things on the planet:

Cute picture, huh?

• Polar bears are kept warm by thick fat, two layers of fur and compact ears and tails that help reduce heat loss.  They're made for snow just like Tibetan Terriers, although I can hardly imagine Miss Puppy supporting herself by hunting seals at the North Pole but I can picture her eating her fill of moles if there are in fact moles at the Pole.
• You can adopt a polar bear here, at Polar Bear International.

Happy Birthday, If He Weren't Dead, To...

William Frawley.  Blah blah blah Fred Mertz.  Blah blah Miracle on 34th Street.  Blah blah blah My Three Sons, pre-Uncle Charlie.

It's also the birthday of Buffalo Bill Cody.

Hmm.  Is February 26th a designated Bill day?  Gates?  Cosby?  Clinton?  O'Reilly?  Anyone?

This Day Is The Birthday Of...

George Harrison.  The youngest Beatle.  The shyest Beatle.  The most spiritual Beatle.

 

I've turned Cupcake and Robespierre on to Hard Day's Night, which they quote as extravagantly as they do Airplane! and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, about which I am extremely proud.

Today Is The Birthday Of W.E.B. Dubois...

Dubois was a 20th Century sociologist, intellectual, author and civil rights leader.  Poignantly, he died in Ghana the night before Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

To learn more about King's speech and the events leading up to it, pick up Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation, by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly.  Were you aware that King's famous speech was largely improvised?  Me neither.

It's Be Humble Day

There was a brief time, about one semester of law school, when I was feeling so blue and self-pitying that I tried to drown my sorrows in country music. I loved this song by Mac "Raindrops-Keep-Falling-On-My Head" Davis:

 

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way
I can't wait to look in the mirror 'cause I get better lookin' each day
To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can

I know it's hard, but please try.

Wasn't the Muppet Show wonderful?  Discuss.

It's Card Reading Day

Today is Card Reading Day.  What kind of cards shall we read?  It's anybody's guess.

If you saved up all of last year's Christmas cards or Valentines, read them today.  I've kept my kids' friends' annual holiday cards for them to look at later and say either "wow, they've changed!" or "who the heck is that?"

I might go over every birthday card and Mother's Day card my kids have ever given me, which I just might have stored away in a file somewhere in my office.

You could read every business card you've ever received, including those stored in your Outlook or wherever people store e-business cards.

Anybody know anything about Tarot cards?

It's Hoodie Hoo Day

February 20 is Hoodie Hoo Day, a copyrighted holiday:

On this winter day, people go out at noon, wave their hands over their heads and chant "Hoodie-Hoo".

It is a day to chase away winter and bring in spring. After all, everyone in the northern hemisphere are sick and tired of winter at this point and a little crazy being cooped up inside all winter and not seeing the sun.

You first.  I'll be right behind you, I swear.

Let me know how it works out.

Today's Holiday Is...

National Chocolate Mint Day.

Chocolate.  Mint.  Two of the most divine flavors combined to form one uberflavor*.

Peppermint Patties.

M&Ms.

And Cupcake's impossibly delicious Thin Mint Brownies.

I'm hungry.

*Spellcheck offered flavorless.  Uh uh.

Today We Observe...

Pluto Day!

Pluto was the Roman god of the Underwear.  Oops -- I mean Underworld. Originally he was the god of metals but since metals came from mines underground he eventually took jurisdiction over all good things that come from underground, including jewels and precious metals but apparently not yams or carrots.

Pluto's jurisdiction over shiny stuff is probably why rule of the wealthy is referred to as a plutocracy.

Pluto used to be a planet but for the moment he's just a rock floating aimlessly in space on a path to crash through some crotchety old guy's cosmic window.  You might say he and the other real planets have a plutonic relationship.  On the other hand, you might show impeccable taste by not saying it and rolling your eyes when I say it.

How cool is this?

This Day Is...

Champion Crab Races Day.

Robey wanted a pet hermit crab.  I knew that "his" pet would really be "my" pet, and I had very little interest in nurturing an animal that looked like a rock.

So I gently suggested he take a look at the instructions for maintaining your crab and its "crabitat" (I didn't make that word up.  Wish I had.  Just the word crabitat was nearly enough to persuade me I had to allow the little critter in our house, but it still didn't make up for the fact that I would be destined to be the chief crab wrangler).

Look at all these rules!  Rules about humidity, bedding, baths or no baths, toys, friends, chlorine, molting,  even cannibalism!  All for some crustacean as big as your hand that might go belly up days before you notice it hasn't stirred in days.

One glance at the rules was enough to convince him that a dog is much better than a hermit crab, especially since your mother loves the dog and willingly cares for her.

Today's Holiday Is...

Do a Grouch a Favor Day.

Did you know Oscar the Grouch was originally orange?  Guess all that trash made him moldy.

Today We Celebrate...

National Gum Drop Day.  I know Ronald Reagan was fond of jelly beans.  I like them too, especially the sour and tangy ones like lemon, tangerine or cinnamon.

But I've never been certain what a gumdrop is, other than something in that deplorable sweet game Candyland.

Let's Celebrate...

Ferris Wheel Day and National Heart to Heart Day.

It's Ferris Wheel Day in honor of the birthday of George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., who invented a ride called the Gale Wheel (gotcha!  Just kidding.  It's really the George Washington Wheel) for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.  Want to learn a little bit about the Chicago World's Fair and feel your toes curl up inside your Uggs at the same time?  Pick up Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, the story of the Fair intertwined with the nefarious doings of Dr. H.H. Holmes, a con artist who lured young women to his World's Fair Hotel and murdered them.

Oh, and it's also Valentine's Day.

Today...

is Get a Different Name Day and Read to Your Child Day

I don't want a new name.  I have a name (actually a title) that I like very much.  Sometimes I forget the title isn't really my new name and I confuse people by referring to myself by the title, so I have to explain and that just confuses them further.

I love reading to my kids.  I think Cupcake would enjoy it even if I read Goodnight Moon to her.