As a part of my everyday joy-in-being, I get to go to work. Part of the festivities that I take part in require that I set up imaginary work schedules. These, for the sake of really-reality, must include some holidays and, since I work for a global company (and, of course, since I haven't used enough commas in this sentence, yet), I try to include some major international holidays as well as a few strange ones. Here are a few that really caught my eye today as I attempted to bring some entertainment into what would be the less-preferred option between it and, say, a molten-lava enema:
Today, as you probably guessed is Backwards Day. The idea, amazingly, is to do things backwards. While this might sound like a knee-slapping time, just imagine what would happen if you were to apply this to every aspect of your life. I feel I only need apply one example to make this point: go to the bathroom. Ewww.
February 20th is my birthday. Lucky for my cat, it's also Love Your Pet Day. Unluckily for my cat, I'm also self-centered and greedy: she's getting crap. However she might still get some enjoyment out of the day, since it's also Northern Hemisphere Hoodie-Ho Day, where, at noon (local time zone please, we don't want things to be tricky), you're asked to go outside and yell "Hoodie-Ho!" to chase out winter and get ready for spring. I really don't even need to make a joke about this one.
That reminds me, Groundhog Day has to be the lamest holiday. This makes no sense at all. If the groundhog (and that little bad boy is getting pretty damn plump) doesn't see its shadow, winter's almost over. If it does it, it scares the piss out of him and he gets so angry that he makes winter continue until October 24th, 2028 (I may be off on that). What kind of lame-ass rule is that? After all this time, the groundhog is still scared of his damn shadow? To support this claim of lame-i-tude, the National Weather service has calculated that relying on a marmot to predict the arrival of spring has about a 39% accuracy rate (historically).
April 4th is tell a lie day. Which makes me wonder if they announced this holiday on April 4th, thereby creating a celebratory paradox.
June 29th is Waffle Iron day. Waffles are the crispy cousin to flapjacks, and therefore celebrated as often as possible, making this day somewhat unnecessary.
The absolute greatest holiday has to be Decmber 5th, Day of the Ninja. To quote Wikipedia: "On this day, people are encouraged to dress as ninja, engage in ninja-related activities, and spread information on ninja online." How cool is that? Top 5 reasons why Day of the Ninja is the best holiday:
5. In 2004, a bunch of french performers ran around the city taking pictures of each other doing ninja-like activities in famous places.
4. It was originally created by ninjaburger.com, which has to have some of the best copy on a ninja-related site.
3. If you are really good at celebrating, nobody will know you did.
2. You basically get to wear footy pajamas, and we all know that's what every adult misses most about childhood.
1. You guessed it, Ninja Throwing Stars!!!
5 comments:
there are some drawbacks to posting backwards...he he.
Great post by the way, I celebrated this day last year in a very similar fashion. This year, too much stuff going on that needed reporting first and foremost.
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Thank you.
Thank you right back sir....
I don't know if I am more excited for Hoodie-Ho day or Ninja Day! Yeah, it has to be ninja day!
Come to think of it, maybe ninjas ARE more cool than pirates:
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