The Many Holidays of Every Day

[Neosquid]

Hot chocolate > Tea

 

[Splash_King]

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Oh, I forgot today's post... ohwellimbusytoobad

 

[Neosquid]

THiS POST IS THE POST OF THE DEVIL

 

[Splash_King]

November 9th​

Yesterday had few holidays anyways... Just five, and a single birthday.



Scrapple Day
National Chaos Never Dies Day
Kristallnacht's Anniversary
Independence Day (Cambodia)
Carl Sagan's Birthday



No, not that vocabulary board game for nerds. Scrapple Day celebrates pon haus, a food made from pork scraps and cornmeal & flour, often with spices added. Mush it all together into a loaf, cut it up, and pan fry it to a state of deliciousness so you've got scrapple. If you live in a rural state of the US, odds are you've had it before. If you haven't, look up a recipe for it and give it a shot, I doubt you'd regret it.


National Chaos Never Dies Day isn't a day of celebration, but a day of spreading the ideal that our lives will always be filled with chaos; and thus, we should enjoy the moment instead of waiting for those rare moments of quiet bliss. If you're an idiot who plans to work a fast food joint his entire life, sure, your life will probably be chaotic forever more. But if you actually give two shits about some foresight and future planning, this holiday is relatively stupid for you. It's certainly good to enjoy the moment with all ya've got, but a life in permanent rush and lack of punctuation? Easily avoidable, at least in the long run.


If you don't know what Kristallnacht is, you really need to bone up on your WWII history... Regardless, the Night of Broken Glass was sort of the official beginning of the end for the Holocaust. Thus, it's anniversary is a serious day of awareness. Since all of this is srs business, I'll give it my holiday pick of the day; in the most respectful sense possible, of course.


Cambodia's Independence Day celebrates the day they gained their freedom from France in 1953. The newest King at the time was chosen because the France politicians believed he'd be easy to bend to their will; turns out he gave Cambodia their independence instead of listening to their greedy demands. :lol:


Carl Edward Sagan was a well-known astronomer and author of many writings and books. He has quite a few best seller science publishes, which certainly says something. Sagan made plenty of contributions to astrology and many things space, some of these on his amazing insight alone. His theories about space conditions for the moons and surfaces of other planets were often spot on, such as his theory of Titan, one of Saturn's moons, holding oceans on the surface. Sagan also pegged that the theory of global warming was 100% man made and could quickly turn into a runaway problem that would eventually reach the point of no return; that's a pretty ****ing accurate theory. :lol:


Today's actual post coming soon...

 

[WiiAssasin]

Carl Edward Sagan was a well-known astronomer and author of many writings and books. He has quite a few best seller science publishes, which certainly says something. Sagan made plenty of contributions to astrology and many things space, some of these on his amazing insight alone. His theories about space conditions for the moons and surfaces of other planets were often spot on, such as his theory of Titan, one of Saturn's moons, holding oceans on the surface. Sagan also pegged that the theory of global warming was 100% man made and could quickly turn into a runaway problem that would eventually reach the point of no return; that's a pretty ****ing accurate theory. :lol:

Are you sure about that?

 

[Splash_King]

November 10th​

Today we've got six holidays, and a single birthday.



Forget Me Not Day
Beaver Moon
Area Codes' Anniversary
Sesame Street's Anniversary
USMC's Anniversary (United States Marine Corps)
First Shout for Independence (Panama)
Martin Luther's Birthday



Forget Me Not Day is a day inspired by an old legend of a Medieval knight and his lover. The poor chap fell into a river while walking near it with his beloved: his heavy armor kept him from swimming nor escaping the current. Before sinking to his water grave, it is told the knight handed his woman a handful of blue flowers, muttering "forget me not" before the water swept 'em to his grave; indeed, the flower known as the forget-me-not. Today is the day to remember those we may be forgetting or have already forgotten, whether because we're idiots who can't keep in touch with 'em regularly (my usual complaints of "if you need a day out of the year to remind you, you're a damn fool"), or because death can sorta do that to the memory of someone. People are the one thing I'm not good at forgetting, but this gets my holiday pick of the day regardless.


Beaver Moon doesn't mean we can stick Beiber in the engine room of the next rocket to be launched, unfortunately... Rather, this day refers to the full moon in November when beavers are most busy preparing for winter. This day was actually rather important back in the 1700s, since it signaled the time for colonists and Native Americans alike to start trapping beavers.


Area Codes' Anniversary celebrates the day area codes came into effect, the day after the Englewood, New Jersey mayor called a fellow mayor in Almeda, California, exactly 60 years ago. Area Codes, AKA Numbering Plan Areas and once known as STD codes ( :lol: ), make it so that we don't have confusion among phone numbers, since there's no way 7 digits alone are enough numbers for just most modern countries. Although, even with 10 digits, America in particular is quickly wearing thin it's reserve of phone numbers...


Sesame Street's Anniversary is what is it... Yep. Moving on.


The Marine Corps were founded way back in 1775. For all of you who don't have much militia knowledge, the Marines are not the US Navy. Marines are essentially the equivalent of maritime army-men, the Navy being the naval forces itself. Shout out to 1337endo!


Panama's First Shout for Independence celebrates Panama's first cries for independence from Spain quite some time back in 1821. Not too many territories were legitimately fighting for freedom back then.


Martin Luther; y'know, that one protestant guy I mentioned some time ago, the guy who isn't MLK. Confronting church corruption means he had a good head on his shoulders, and some brass ****in' balls as well, so he's pretty boss.


... Romance tragedy stories like that legend are far too cliche. ¬_¬

 

[Splash_King]

Are you sure about that?

Nope.

 

[Splash_King]

Oh... ... ... I forgot about today (now yesterday...) again. God damnit... ;_;

 

[WiiAssasin]

Nope.

Astrology =/= Astronomy

 

[Splash_King]

I'm not an astrologist or astronomer, so... close enough.

Glitches, post of the yesterday lost, epic sadface. I'll rewrite when I ****ing wake up, ugh...

 

[trollface]

Forget Me Not Day is a day inspired by an old legend of a Medieval knight and his lover. The poor chap fell into a river while walking near it with his beloved: his heavy armor kept him from swimming nor escaping the current. Before sinking to his water grave, it is told the knight handed his woman a handful of blue flowers, muttering "forget me not" before the water swept 'em to his grave; indeed, the flower known as the forget-me-not. Today is the day to remember those we may be forgetting or have already forgotten, whether because we're idiots who can't keep in touch with 'em regularly (my usual complaints of "if you need a day out of the year to remind you, you're a damn fool"), or because death can sorta do that to the memory of someone. People are the one thing I'm not good at forgetting, but this gets my holiday pick of the day regardless.

... Romance tragedy stories like that legend are far too cliche. ¬_¬

Dam... this is epic ... sadly, FTW

 

[Splash_King]

>_>;

<_<;

Post coming soon...

I forgot again...

 

[Splash_King]

November 11th​

Yesterday, we had a large nine holidays...



Sundae Day
Origami Day (Japan)
Death/Duty Day
Saint Martin's Day
Veterans Day (US)
Admission Day (Washington)
Independence Day (Angola)
Independence Day (Poland)
Remembrance Day



Sundae Day celebrates the Ice Cream Sundae, obviously; but not on a Sunday. What the **** America?! Date aside, few people know where the sundae originates from. Way back around the roaring 20s or so, religious nutjobs said that drinking soda and eating ice cream on Sundays was blasphemy. Ice cream with garnish on top that obscurs the ice cream itself isn't technically considered ice cream; so the sundae was born to get around said religious nutjobs and their stupidity in banning everything that's good. Celebrate the fact that clever loopholes gives religion some tough **** by eating a sundae of your own... Yesterday.


Origami Day is what it is; it commemorates the art form that is origami. Japan in particular favors origami in that Japan has effectively made the paper crane an international symbol of peace. Not sure what the reason behind the date is, though.


Death/Duty Day honors the soldiers who died on the day of WWI's armistice; fighting effectively continued without point until 11 AM, the agreed time for hostilities to stop. There were plenty of unnecessary deaths on this last morning of the war, and plenty of families left without a husband and Father... A single day truly doesn't do justice for such meaningless and unneeded casualties.


Saint Martin's Day is a Catholic feast day commemorating St. Martin, a Roman soldier who was born unbaptized and, obviously, a man of war. However, once past his prime the man became a monk and led a quiet and peaceful life. One night in a snowstorm, the story goes that he ripped his cloak in two to give half to a lonely beggar who would of froze to death otherwise. Through such kindness, even if the man was once a killer and as a child was Christian, Jeebus came to 'em in a dream and gave him his blessings to the angels. One of the few feast days that has a meaning; that generosity and genuine kindness makes every man a man of god. But of course, it's not widely known... =/


US' Veterans Day celebrates and honors all those who've served their country, simple enough.


Washington's Admission Day originates from the same day in 1889 when Washington became the 42nd state... Yep.


Angola's Independence Day celebrates the same day they gained freedom from Portugal in 1975.


Poland's Independence Day celebrates Poland finally being released from a chain of multiple partitions and regaining it's independence, said partitions lasting 123 years in a row.


Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, is effectively Veterans Day for the entire world (y u so special, 'merica?) to remember all those who've died for their country. It was originally just for WWI, but is generally an honoring for all soldiers who lost their lives.


Today's post coming soon...

 

[Splash_King]

November 12th​

Today, we've got just four holidays and two birthdays.



National Library Gaming Day
Domino Day
Birth of Baha'u'llah
Postman's Day (Mexico)
Grace Kelly's Birthday
Auguste Rodin's Birthday



National Library Gaming Day is a day most of us missed when we were kids... And that's just bullshit. =/ I think we can all remember a time when adults were all skeptical of video games unless they were gamers themselves, and it was looked down on as childish and a waste of time even moreso than today. My regrets ( :lol: ) aside, today is a fantastic day. Some libraries have had gaming nights (no, not board game nights; GAMING nights) in the past few years to attract the youngin's who want everything digital and love their video games, and as a way for the non-hipster adults to not be entirely clueless about gaming. Such library activities have grown popular enough for a national day, which is pretty awesome. Some libraries after even having ****ing tournaments on the holiday if they've got staff that know anything about games. Who woulda thought libraries would ever gather kids that aren't bookworms? I think most of us can agree this is a grand holiday, even if we have nothing to do with it. Thus, it's my holiday pick of the day.


Domino Day is awesome... 'nuff said.

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Birth of Baha'u'llah is the birthday of Baha'u'llah turned into a holy day, honoring the creator of the Bahá'í Faith. I mentioned a Bahá'í holiday some time ago, and still know nothing about said faith... >_>;


Mexico's Postman Day, in Spanish Dia del Cartero, is the day that Mexico's residents remember their local postman or postwoman and give a gift for his/her hard work. You won't see much snow or rain in Mexico, but their work in the oh-so often heat is grueling. Unlike most mail personnel in other modern countries, most mail and packages will travel to within around a mile of their destination, and then a fleet-footed delivery personnel will take it to the destination by foot or bike, motorcycle if necessary as well. No cozy, comfortable, and sealed mail trucks. They certainly do deserve any thanks they get for their labor-intense courier services.


Grace Kelley was an American actress, and more notably, a princess through marriage. Yeah, the modern day kind. Famous for her inherited status, her affairs as an actress, and the many movies and TV shows she starred in, Grace was quite the popular gal back in the 50s. Too bad being married to royalty demolished her acting career; not too many of royalty are known for appearing on the big screen, after all. :lol:


Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor from the 19th century. His style is generally considered a precursor to modern sculpture, even though he had no intent to revolutionize his art of choice. T'was just his style. He got quite a bit of critique in the way of controversy for his style of sculpting, but he refused to change in a "haters gonna hate" fashion, and it eventually paid off. By the start of the 20th century, he was world renowned and well paid for private commissions. From proletariat to art phenomenon, he certainly earned his way to fame through natural innovation and talent.


Speaking of parents' ignorance towards video games, I'm curious if we'll get another gigantic wave of "VIDEO GAMES CAUSES VIOLENCE, BAN 'EM!" when GTA V is released.

 

[WiiAssasin]

Speaking of parents' ignorance towards video games, I'm curious if we'll get another gigantic wave of "VIDEO GAMES CAUSES VIOLENCE, BAN 'EM!" when GTA V is released.

Only in Australia/NewZealand.