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watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Jun 10 @ 12:59 AM ET
June 10 National Iced Tea Day
kicksave856
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: i love how not saying dumb things on the internet was never an option.
Joined: 09.29.2005

Jun 11 @ 1:08 AM ET
happy 100th b'day, dead jacques cousteau!
watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Jun 14 @ 2:48 PM ET
June 14th - Flag Day (USA)



watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Sep 14 @ 12:03 AM ET
September 14 - National Cream-filled Donut Day

watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Sep 18 @ 12:36 AM ET
Sept 18th - National Cheeseburger Day (US)

watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Dec 30 @ 8:47 PM ET
December 30th

National Bicarbonate of Soda Day



shvingter88
New Jersey Devils
Location: Puljujarvi makes draisitil and mcdavid better, CT
Joined: 10.12.2009

Jan 3 @ 9:24 AM ET
January 3rd

National Drinking Straw Day (U.S.)


Happy Drinking Straw Day everyone!
On drinking straw day we are encouraged to celebrate the invention of the drinking straw. So enjoy this day by drinking cool drinks with cool straws all day long!
Flyskippy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Ignoreland, GA
Joined: 11.04.2005

Jan 3 @ 1:56 PM ET
January 3rd

National Drinking Straw Day (U.S.)


Happy Drinking Straw Day everyone!
On drinking straw day we are encouraged to celebrate the invention of the drinking straw. So enjoy this day by drinking cool drinks with cool straws all day long!

- shvingter88


I imagine tomorrow is National Spitball Day.
watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Feb 2 @ 12:18 AM ET
February 2nd



watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Feb 2 @ 12:26 AM ET
Groundhog Day
2 February

Groundhog Day is a tradition tied closely on the calendar and in history with Candlemas Day.

There was been a tradition that if the weather were good on Candlemas, bad weather would continue, and if the weather that day was bad, then winter was just about over. It actually makes sense if you think of it, despite the reverse logic, because sunny days in winter in the Northern Hemisphere are often the coldest.

It's actually, though, a tradition that even predates Candlemas Day in northern Europe. Some speculate it was brought by the Romans; others say it was a pagan tradition called "Imbolc", marking a halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, celebrated with light (candles and presumably fires) to help hasten the departure of the darkness of winter. On this day, if the weather were good enough for an animal such as a hedgehog to see its shadow, then it was fine weather which meant bad weather coming. Germans would watch to see if bears, badgers or hedgehogs saw their shadows.

Germans coming over to America, such as those that settled in Pennsylvania, found groundhogs a good substitute for hedgehogs, which sadly don't exist in North America. Observance of Groundhog Day was first recorded in February 1841 in the diary of a shopkeeper, James Morris, in Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It didn't become a Pennsylvania wide practice until around 1886.

Settlers in northern States soon realized, however, that whether the groundhog saw his shadow or not, there would still be a good deal of winter yet to get through. February in the northern half of North America, in fact, is usually the dead of winter, unlike in milder European countries. So a saying evolved: "Groundhog Day - Half your hay". It means that you should only have used up half your hay by then -- if you didn't still have half of it left, your livestock were going to be very hungry by the time winter was through before they could be put up to pasture again to feed on grass.

In Pennsylvania, dinners are held at "Grundau Lodges" (meaning "Groundhog Lodges"). Pennsylvania Dutch (e.g. Pennsylvania German) food is served, and people are encouraged to speak to each other in the Pennsylvanian Dutch dialect.

Literature & Lore
An old English rhyme:
If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Come, Winter, have another flight;
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Go Winter, and come not again.

A Scottish rhyme:
If Candlemas day be dry and fair,
The half o' winter to come and mair,
If Candlemas day be wet and foul,
The half of winter's gone at Yule.

- pengal



watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Mar 1 @ 10:00 PM ET
March 1 - Pancake Day

March 1, 2011
Join IHOP on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 7 a.m. - 10 p.m., for National Pancake Day and receive one complimentary short stack!* In return for the free flapjacks, we ask you to consider leaving a little something behind for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and other designated local charities. Thanks to our guests' generosity, IHOP raised more than $2.1 million last year. IHOP began its National Pancake Day in 2006, and since then, has raised $5.35 million for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and other local charities and given away more than 10.1 million buttermilk pancakes.
Flyskippy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Ignoreland, GA
Joined: 11.04.2005

Mar 24 @ 9:35 AM ET
shvingter88
New Jersey Devils
Location: Puljujarvi makes draisitil and mcdavid better, CT
Joined: 10.12.2009

Mar 24 @ 4:27 PM ET

- Flyskippy

that mother (frank)er is so creepy
watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Apr 22 @ 12:12 AM ET
April 22

Earth Day


Good Friday 2011
watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Apr 24 @ 1:22 AM ET
penguininnevada
Pittsburgh Penguins
Location: member of the honor roll, assistant to the assistant manager of the movie theater
Joined: 09.01.2008

Oct 18 @ 10:38 AM ET


October 18th 2011 is World Menopause Day. It is a time to dwell on understanding the health-care issues of women, particularly older women.


watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Nov 30 @ 11:52 AM ET
National Stay At Home Because You're Well Day
November 30th, 2011



Most employers provide a certain amount of sick days per pay period. Using these days because of a true illness is not very fun. You have to stay in bed, watching porn, blowing your nose, and not feeling well. That’s why November 30 is National Stay at Home Because You’re Well Day. It is a day to relax without being surrounded by crumpled up, used tissues.
BingoLady
Montreal Canadiens
Location: Ultimate Warrior, NB
Joined: 07.15.2009

Dec 1 @ 11:02 AM ET
Today celebrates a different kind of piety - December 1 is National Pie Day!
kicksave856
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: i love how not saying dumb things on the internet was never an option.
Joined: 09.29.2005

Dec 5 @ 12:39 AM ET
Today celebrates a different kind of piety - December 1 is National Pie Day!
- BingoLady

Flyfreaky
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 07.20.2011

Dec 5 @ 11:01 AM ET
Today celebrates a different kind of piety - December 1 is National Pie Day!
- BingoLady

I love pie...
watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Dec 7 @ 12:00 AM ET
December 7th - pearl harbor day

watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Dec 18 @ 12:22 PM ET
December 18th

Bake Cookies Day
the_cause2000
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Not quite my tempo
Joined: 02.26.2007

Dec 18 @ 12:42 PM ET
December 18th

Bake Cookies Day

- watsonnostaw

really?

edit: yessir! http://www.holidayinsight.../other/bakecookiesday.htm
watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Feb 2 @ 12:07 AM ET
Groundhog Day
2 February

Groundhog Day is a tradition tied closely on the calendar and in history with Candlemas Day.

There was been a tradition that if the weather were good on Candlemas, bad weather would continue, and if the weather that day was bad, then winter was just about over. It actually makes sense if you think of it, despite the reverse logic, because sunny days in winter in the Northern Hemisphere are often the coldest.

It's actually, though, a tradition that even predates Candlemas Day in northern Europe. Some speculate it was brought by the Romans; others say it was a pagan tradition called "Imbolc", marking a halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, celebrated with light (candles and presumably fires) to help hasten the departure of the darkness of winter. On this day, if the weather were good enough for an animal such as a hedgehog to see its shadow, then it was fine weather which meant bad weather coming. Germans would watch to see if bears, badgers or hedgehogs saw their shadows.

Germans coming over to America, such as those that settled in Pennsylvania, found groundhogs a good substitute for hedgehogs, which sadly don't exist in North America. Observance of Groundhog Day was first recorded in February 1841 in the diary of a shopkeeper, James Morris, in Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It didn't become a Pennsylvania wide practice until around 1886.

Settlers in northern States soon realized, however, that whether the groundhog saw his shadow or not, there would still be a good deal of winter yet to get through. February in the northern half of North America, in fact, is usually the dead of winter, unlike in milder European countries. So a saying evolved: "Groundhog Day - Half your hay". It means that you should only have used up half your hay by then -- if you didn't still have half of it left, your livestock were going to be very hungry by the time winter was through before they could be put up to pasture again to feed on grass.

In Pennsylvania, dinners are held at "Grundau Lodges" (meaning "Groundhog Lodges"). Pennsylvania Dutch (e.g. Pennsylvania German) food is served, and people are encouraged to speak to each other in the Pennsylvanian Dutch dialect.

Literature & Lore
An old English rhyme:
If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Come, Winter, have another flight;
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Go Winter, and come not again.

A Scottish rhyme:
If Candlemas day be dry and fair,
The half o' winter to come and mair,
If Candlemas day be wet and foul,
The half of winter's gone at Yule.

- pengal


Bump.
watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Feb 13 @ 7:58 PM ET
February 13

National Tortellini Day

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