Happy Teechus Day!

well I really slept intoday -so nope what is this Teechus day?

I don't really know what it is so I guess it can be whatever you want it to be.

What I do know is that we've had to wish each other "Happy Teechus Day!" around here all day.

Then I started wondering about how holidays get started and I wondered if I could get other's on board for Teechus Day.

I know that breakfast is somehow central to Teechus Day festivities.

I found this "day in history" stuff. Maybe we could figure out something here to celebrate that doesn't alreay have it's own holiday:

816 St Leo III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1665 English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1775 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (Am) captures Margaretta (Br)
1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
1838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
1838 Territory of Iowa organized
1839 1st baseball game played in America
1845 George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country
1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky
1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1880 1st baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc)
1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock
waves felt over an area size of Europe. Negligible death toll
1898 Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1903 Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city
1907 Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to the Tigers
1913 "The Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1922 St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8
1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended
upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC
1925 William DeHart Hubbard of US, sets long jump record at 25' 10 3/4"
1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up
into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
1935 Chaco War ends between Bolivia & Paraguay [?]
1936 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1394 Algoa
1937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
1939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1942 Tornado kills 35 in Oklahoma City
1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Br Women's Amateur Golf Champ
1948 Eddie Arcaro becomes 1st jockey to win the triple crown twice
1952 420th kitten (record) born to cat named Dusty, Bonham, TX
1954 Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0
1957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
1959 SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1964 South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1965 The Beatles are awarded the MBE
1967 Israel wins 6 day war
1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1967 Wash Senators beat Chic White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings
1970 Pitts Pirate Dock Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2216 Kerch
1971 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" & "Luck of the Irish"
1973 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life
1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
1979 Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC
1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
1990 NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves
1990 Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
1990 NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning

Obviously this is child-rearing ("teach us!") day. Between Mother's day and Father's day. For everyone who contributes to the enrichment of a child -- parents and everyone else.

On the other hand, seems to be a good day for finding asteroids...

And the ending laws against interracial marriages thing has promise, too...

Maybe it could be a celebration of baseball and breakfast.

1839 1st baseball game played in America
1880 1st baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
1907 Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to the Tigers
1922 St Louis gets record 10 hits in a row & beats Phillies 14-8
1939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1954 Milwaukee Braves Jim Wilson no-hits Phillies, 2-0 1959 SF Giants Mike McCormick no-hits Phillies, 3-0 in 5 inning game
1967 Wash Senators beat Chic White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings
1970 Pitts Pirate Dock Ellis no-hits San Diego Padres, 2-0
1973 Yanks trade wife swapper Mike Kekich for Lowell Palmer
1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1990 NY Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves
1990 Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
1990 NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning

Yeah! Soz! Maybe it could be "Teach-Us" day.

Parents would be required to answer ANY question their child poses.

YEAH!

No "I'm busy" or "later, honey" -- if the kid asks, you answer. Same sort of concept as take your child to work day, but all day, and anywhere.

Here it would be a day in celebration of teachers.

But isn't there one of those already?

Do you have a day where people give you flowers and cards for doing your job so well? THAT's exactly what Teechus Day should be about -- you're way important in the lives of your niece and nephew, but do you have a day?

Me? No.

Well now you do. The second Sunday in June is Teechus Day, for all the people who enrich the lives of children, parents or not. It is celebrated with breakfasts and... other stuff, to be determined.

(Well, that's up to boomer. I like the idea, though.)

Ok, do I fete myself? Who's going to tell my boss?

We will! Well, we probably actually will contact Hallmark and the Prez, and get some official proclamations, and then there will be "don't forget Teechus Day!" stuff everywhere, and nobody would have to tell her, per se.

But I might be getting ahead of myself...

hehehehe....

We're not big on hallmark holidays in my family. But, it's a great idea for a holiday.

I'm thinking Teechus Day has real potential!

A special holiday for all the people who answer kid's weird questions.

Teechus Day official motto: But Why?

Men and women across America don their "But Why?" crowns and truthfully answer questions from any child who asks.

But only from breakfast till 6:00 when the baseball games start.

Then cocktail hour (adults only)

So:

Breakfast (no guilt, no matter what you eat).
Truth (with crowns!)
Baseball
Cocktails (and grousing)

They shall know you by your crown, little k.

Heh, I like the schedule!

There certainly are advantages to being on the design-end of holidays.

Ha! Yes!