Category: Silly, Funny & Hilarious Events

Memento Mori (Mortality Day): January 3

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This is not a fun holiday, but an important one. Memento Mori, or Mortality Day, is a day to remind us of our own mortality and the unavoidable fact that one day each and everyone of us will all die. It'...

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Nothing Day, Ntl.: January 16

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Today is National Nothing Day. Proposed in 1972 by San Francisco Examiner columnist Harold Pullman Coffin, it is the day to provide Americans with one National day when they can just sit without celebra...

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Opposites Day: January 25

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Opposites Day is celebrated on January 25 in the United States. It’s a day about not saying what you mean or meaning what you say. In other words, if it is hot outside, you would say the opposite: it is...

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Peculiar People Day: January 10

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On Peculiar People Day we are encouraged to appreciate and honor differences, and seek out the peculiar souls whom surround us, even those we ignore, mock, or dismiss. It is a day to celebrate what makes...

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Play God Day: January 9

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Play God Day is based on the idea of playing God. However, while "playing God" is a phrase that usually has a negative connotation and can be considered blasphemous in many faiths, in this case it's mea...

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Puddle Splash Your Friends Day: January 11

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Pulling a puddle splash on a friend or a stranger is a incorrigible prank, unless you're doing it on this day! Puddle Splash Your Friends Day is a day for mischief, just like April's Fools (but with les...

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Run-up-the-Flagpole Day: January 2

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Run-up-the-Flagpole Day is a day in the U.S. that comes from 'Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it'. This is a phrase that became popular in the 1950s. It means ‘to present an idea an...

January

Show & Tell Day at Work: January 8

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Show & Tell Day at Work is created by Thomas & Ruth Roy from Wellcat Holidays. Based upon the elementary school tradition of Show & Tell today is a day when adults can bring a pet, a toy or an award to wo...

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Skeptics Day, Ntl.: January 13*

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National Skeptics Day is an unofficial holiday that celebrates skepticism and its innumerable gifts to us. This is one of two Skeptic’s Days on the calendar. The second is International Skeptics Day, whi...

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Snow Plow Mailbox Hockey Day: January 23

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Snow Plow Mailbox Hockey Day is created by Thomas and Ruth Roy of Wellcat Holidays & Herbs. The day is meant to show appreciation for snowplow drivers who spend the entire winter plowing streets and avoid...

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Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day (1848)...

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Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day honors the anniversary of the discovery of gold by James Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, January 24, 1848.

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Z Day: January 1

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Z Day reverses the alphabet for one day when people with a last name starting with Z go to the head of the line and those with As to the end.

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Football Hangover Day, Ntl.: February 3

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Super Bowl is over, which means football season is on hiatus until fall. All over the US millions of people are morning the passing of another season, and hangovers from the game day parties. Late night E...

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Extraterrestrial Culture Day: February 11

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It was in 1947 that a UFO was reported sighted over Roswell, New Mexico in the Southwestern US. Ever since, Roswell has been a mecca for UFO seekers and shrouded in mystery. Recognizing this, with a tad...

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Underlings Day, Intl.: February 29

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Most days, those not on top, be it economic or in the workplace, are made to know it. But once every four years on Leap Day, the Underlings of the world rejoice. This is our day! Today is the day to celeb...

January

Dump the Jerk(ess) Week: February 1-7

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This event is timed the week before Valentine's Day as an excuse to get out of a relationship that is no longer working for you. If you've been thinking about rejoining the dating pool and have had enou...

January

Hula in the Coola Day: February 1

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Hula in the Coola is more of a tradition in the Northern Hemisphere and can occur at anytime in January or February, but is traditionally done on the 1st of February. By this point people are getting tir...

January

Bonza Bottler Day™, Intl: February 2

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When the number of the month matches the number of the day, that's Bonza Bottler Day. Basically, it is a play on numbers. There are twelve Bonza Bottler Days a year. This event began in 1985. Bonza is...

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Move Hollywood & Broadway to Lebanon, Penn...

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Wellcat Herbs has created a unique niche for themselves by inventing crazy holidays. This is one. Lebanon, Pennsylvania was once the home office of the David Letterman show. The logic goes if one media...

January

Shower with a Friend Day, Ntl.: February 5

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Winter is the coldest and loneliest season of the year. With dwindling daylight and Valentine's Day at its heart, February can often leave people feeling somber. National Shower with a Friend Day was cre...

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