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January 2nd, 2008

03:32 am - Notable dates in 2008
January
  • 2nd January - Today. It will notably be this celebrated festival every day this year!
  • 3rd January - Tomorrow. And then there will be cake. The rule is, cake to-morrow and cake yesterday - but never cake to-day.
February
  • 29th February - It comes but once every four years (excepting century years which are not divisible by 400). Because it is a leap-day, it is associated with Lovers' Leap, and by extension romantic tragedy. Occurring, as it does, a fortnight and a day after Valentine's Day, this is a good opportunity to undo any mistakes you may have made on the 14th, though preferably not by means of suicide. (Tradition holds that it is a day when women can make mistakes by proposing marriage, but in these enlightened times having a specific date for women making mistakes proposing marriage is somewhat redundant.)
March
  • 20th March - David Bowie Day. "Is there life in March?" Bowie once almost sang. This day, being the Vernal Equinox, and a day of celebrating dawn-goddess Eostre, whom is associated with renewal of life, positively answers the question he didn't quite ask.
April
  • 1st April - Tell people things that are implausible but nonetheless true. Set fire to the couch, tell people, and when they realise the date, tell them you fooled them into thinking it was an April Fools' joke. Be sure to beam smugly when you present them with the charred wreckage.

    This is also, according to Christians, Atheist Day. They think they're being funny, but I'm not ashamed of the capacity to acknowledge my own foolishness. I can think of several people who would do well to develop such a capability.
  • 13th April - This is the 'real' Atheist Day, chosen because it's Madelyn O'Hair's and Thomas Jefferson's birthday.
  • 14th April - I declare this Salad Fingers Day (due, of course, to the use of Aphex Twin's Avril 14th at the end of the 'Cage' episode).
May
  • 1st May - Fight Day! Celtic Beltane, Germanic Walpurgisnacht and Christian Roodmas have always fallen on this day, as well as the now-inevitable May Day riots. This year they are joined by the National (American) Day of Prayer and the more secular National Day of Reason. Whatever side you take, the conflict promises to be exciting!
  • 3rd May - On the 50th of Discord by the Discordian Calendar, while you're licking your wounds from Fight Day, comes the Holyday of Discoflux. Suggested ways to celebrate this Whollyday include:-
    • Have an ancient Roman feast.
    • Perform the Turkey Curse on five unsuspecting greyfaces.
    • Imbibe large quantities of your preferred intoxicant.
    • Squeal like a schoolgirl.
    • Put up a mirrored ball, wear a white suit and play '70s music.
June
  • 2nd June - Birthday of Donatien Alphonse-François de Sade. The guy has a far worse reputation than he deserved and in some ways he was really quite awesome.
July
  • 27th July - The date commonly named as Bugs Bunny's birthday.
  • 31st July - On this day, Bill Gates will step down from day-to-day duties as Chairman and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft. One can only hope that this will prove to be unexpectedly bad news for the Beast of Redmond.
August
  • 8th August - 8/8/8 is the day when everyone's speech will be subtitled for the benefit of deaf people.
  • 25th August - March 14th may be Pi Day in some of the world's locales, but 25/8 is Babylonian Pi Approximation Day (not to be confused with Archimedean Pi Approximation Day on 22nd July), on which I will stop telling people I <3.14159265359 them.
September
  • 19th September - ITLAPD, of course! Arrr!
  • 29th September - The Christian festival of Michaelmas. Notable because it is sometimes known as Goose Day.
October
  • 26th October - I'm not much one for Apple products, but this day last year marked the launch of Mac OSX Leopard. I'm personally hoping we can use that as an excuse for an annual Leopard Day, where everyone has to wear leopard-print. That'd be awesome.
November
  • 2nd November - Day of the Dead. Perhaps we can forget all that traditional sentimental remembrance rubbish and simply extend Hallowe'en to this point..
December
  • 21st December - Depending on your proclivities, you may want to listen to Rush on this day or bitch about how bad Rush are and throw your hands up in despair that anyone actually likes them. Personally I'll be opting for the latter. I WILL NEVER REGAIN THOSE THIRTY-NINE MINUTES AND SIX SECONDS!

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