If you could invent a holiday, what and when would it be?

Agnostic's Day! Don't care when.




A gang bang...where everyone would have to acknowledge what they know...and what they do not know...about the true nature of the Reality of existence.

Agnostic's Day! Can't know when.

Agnostic's Day! Can't know when.

General Douglas MacArthur 's birthday;
it woud be like the 4th of July.





David

Unitarian Universalist Day. There would be a burning question mark on every lawn.

National New Jersey Day

It would be held on September 23 (Bruce Springsteen's Birthday- coincidentally enough my six month birthday- so I could have two days exactly six months apart to celebrate every year).

All New Jerseyans who were so inclined would meet down at the boardwalk in Seaside Heights and we'd eat Italian sausages and funnel cakes and drink beer. We'd play pool and ride the rollercoaster and tilt-a-whirl as Bruce and Frank Sinatra (another notable New Jerseyan) music was blasted over a giant pa system.
There'd be Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson and Susan Sarandon filmfests (yet three more notable New Jerseyans) available.

The grand finale would be Bruce and Southside Johnny doing a joint concert on the beach (maybe they'd allow Jon Bon Jovi (a less notable New jerseyan) to do backup vocals) as fireworks rained from the night sky.

You have to know New Jerseyans to know that it'd be one hell of a time .

Yeah - National New Jersey Day- why hasn't anyone ever thought of this?
Maybe I'll write a fan letter to Bruce and suggest it.

Enlightenment Day...to honour reason, science and the questioning mind.

Food would all be cooked by magnifying glass.....prisms would be in every window...if people wished to go to church, they would hear exciting stories of dogmas questioned and overturned, discoveries made, challenges to religion (done with kindness and humour), the great story of Darwin and the Beagle's voyages.

Museums and university labs would be open, and wonderful speakers, able to make their subjects exciting and captivating, would explain the exhibits or their work.

Exciting processions with wonderful floats depicting advances in human knowledge from everywhere in the world would thrill the masses.

People would dance in libraries.

The night would be dedicated to astronomical observation....huge screens would be set up to display the best, most beautiful, and latest discoveries about the nature of the universe, and people would dance to the music of the spheres.

I don't really care what the day would be supposed to celebrate, but it defintely would have to be in August. Do you realize that in the USA, at least, August is the only month which does not have even one single holiday?

We could stage yearly reenactements of the destruction of Hooverville.

Rock n Roll Day
To occur on Elvis Presley's birthday. Music festivals celebrating all phases of rock.

April 23rd. National Flossing Day. Celebrations should be kinda obvious.

a friend of mine invented "the feast of the giant chicken", we celebrated it often in the days of our wayward youth, it was our way of feeling better about ourselves for skipping class

Edgar, good idea. MacArther was an arrogant aristocrat who focused on his reputation and status.

I never liked or respected him. Truman was right to fire him.

BBB

All sexes day........get you freak on!

It'd be something to do with the start of the growing season. Easter replaced springtime holidays. The pre-christian May Day is close to what I'd want, but too late in the season.

Dancing outside, partying into the night, flowers, greens, feasts....... a celebration of spring.

Can we have sex too?

A friend of mine invented the Capricorn ball-up in Maine - after christmas holidays were over and the long, long winter still stretched out in front of us unendingly- it was always in mid-January. His birthday was about that time too.
He had a log home on about seven acres and you'd show up about three in the afternoon (before dark) to help build the bonfire - and a snowgoat.
There'd be skating, sledding, cross country skiing - drinking, eating, music (he was in a band - they'd set up and play in his loft upstairs).
All ages were invited - from tiny ones to the elderly.
No one had sex that I'm aware of though.

That's because everyone is on vacation.

I think vacation season should be in February. Everyone is sick of winter by then. We should all go someplace warm.

Merry, here are some August holidays just for you. Take your pick.

August 3 National Watermelon Day
August 10 National S'mores Day
August 13 Left Hander's Day
August 14 V-J Day
August 15 Feast of the Assumption
August 22 Ramadan begins
August 30 National Marshmallow Toasting Day

If you don't like them, try these:

August, 2009 Bizarre and Unique Holidays

Month:

Admit You're Happy Month
Family Fun Month
National Catfish Month
National Eye Exam Month
National Golf Month
Peach Month
Romance Awareness Month
Water Quality Month
National Picnic Month
Weekly Events:

Week 1 National Simplify your Life Week
Week 2 National Smile Week
Week 3 Friendship Week
Week 4 Be Kind to Humankind Week
Daily:

1 National Mustard Day first Saturday

1 National Raspberry Cream Pie Day

2 National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

2 Friendship Day - First Sunday in August

2 International Forgiveness Day - First Sunday in August

2 Sisters Day - First Sunday in August

3 National Watermelon Day

4 U.S. Coast Guard Day

5 Work Like a Dog Day

6 Wiggle Your Toes Day

7 National Lighthouse Day

8 Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day - now that's nasty!

9 Book Lover's Day

10 Lazy Day

10 National S'mores Day

11 Presidential Joke Day

11 Son and Daughter Day

12 Middle Child's Day

13 Left Hander's Day

14 National Creamsicle Day

14/15 V-J Day - which dare do you mark the end of WWII?

15 Relaxation Day - now this one's for me!

16 National Tell a Joke Day

17 National Thriftshop Day

18 Bad Poetry Day

19 Aviation Day

20 Chinese Valentine's Day/Daughter's Day - 7th day of 7th Lunar Month

20 National Radio Day

21 Senior Citizen's Day

22 Be an Angel Day

22 National Tooth Fairy Day - and/or February 28

23 Ride the Wind Day

24 Vesuvius Day

25 Kiss and Make Up Day

26 National Dog Day

26 Women's Equality Day

27 Global Forgiveness Day

27 Just Because Day

28 Race Your Mouse Day -but we are not sure what kind of "mouse"

29 More Herbs, Less Salt Day

30 Frankenstein Day

30 Toasted Marshmallow Day

31 National Trail Mix Day