In preparation for the upcoming months, I was researching what we need as a new addition to our long, white library wall. It's time to take down the Moultrie Libraries Time Line and put up something new. That's when I discovered July has some bizaare holidays!
I found out that July is National Baked Beans Month, National Ice Cream Month, National Tennis Month, Read An Almanac Month, Anti-Boredom Month, and Hitchhiking Month! And that's not all. Look at this. . .
July 3 is Stay Out Of The Sun Day and Compliment Your Mirror Day. I can do that!
July 10 is Clerihew Day. If you're like me, you asked, "What is a clerihew?" It's a verse form in two couplets, usually lampooning a person named in the first line. (Now, don't ask what lampooning is! Oh, well! It's a broad, often harsh satire directed against an individual or institution.)
July 13 is Fool's Paradise Day. We all need one of those!
July 17 is National Peach Ice Cream Day. Twelve of the thirty-one days in July on the calendar I was reading had to do with food. The food covered ice cream, chicken, cookies, pie, pudding, chocolate milk, cheese, and caviar. No wonder we're a "fat" nation!
July 19 is Flitch Day. I found out an old custom from yesteryear developed into the holiday of Flitch Day. Bacon was given to any married couple who could prove they had lived in harmony and fidelity for one year. That made me wonder who they had to prove it to and who handed out the bacon!
July 25 is Threading the Needle Day.
July 26 is All or Nothing Day.
July 27 is Take Your Pants For a Walk Day. And we all know, we do not walk enough!
And the fourth Sunday in July is Parent's Day, a special day to honor hard-working parents.
I guess the one I really like the best is July 20. That's Ice Cream Day. Lincoln made Thanksgiving official. Woodrow Wilson did the same for Mother's Day. But in 1984, Ronald Reagan made the third Sunday in July officially Ice Cream Day. And even though it hasn't made the same splash the other two have, it's still a great day! And I promise not to eat too much.
So, before long you'll see a version of these bizaare holidays up on that long, white wall, and I hope everyone enjoys them. Maybe they'll give someone a chuckle. . . .
(Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/)
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I was just reading about your bizaare Holidays and saw where July is National Baked Bean Month.
Did you know there is a receipe for a Baked Bean Cake? Go to Cook.com and type in Baked Bean Cake. Someone says it taste like a spice cake. Maybe we should try it in the month of July?
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Say, could be talk you into baking a sample of that cake and letting us be the samplers?
In "Harper's Bazaar" there could be a list of these "bizarre" holidays. English sometimes has 3 or 4 variants of the same word. Why is that?
Sorry I missed Ice Cream Day. But then, every day is Ice Cream Day at our house. Flavors of the month are Mint Choc Chip and Coffee.
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