To Be Perfectly Honest With You, I Don’t Get That Excited About These Things.

Please don’t add a Comment to this Blog Posting telling me you can’t believe I took the time to waste my time to put this Silliness out.

 

Actually I am a little bit ashamed to let it be known that I actually took the time to make up this list of some of the Commemorative Days we are silly enough to “celebrate” in the Good Ole USofA.

 

However, because I did waste my time in this manner, I now know (and you are about to know) that almost every day of the year appears to be designated as a day to Commemorate Something Or Other. Almost all days commemorate more than one thing and many days go into double digits listings of the things that that particular day “Celebrates”.

 

I wasted a lot of time figuring all this out and making up the list below. If you want to waste your time go to: https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/2017/01/

 

Creampuff Day

Drinking Straw Day

Clean Your Floors Day…

Lazy Day

World Lion Day

Ice Cream Sandwich Day…

Underwear Day

Two Different Colored Shoes Day

Rice Pudding Day

Work Like A Dog Day

Lumpy Rug Day

Shortbread Day

Root Beer Float Day

Lost Sock Day

Have a Bad Day Day

International Childfree Day (Are you wondering what this one is? It’s the celebration by people who chose not to have any children of the fact that they chose not to have children.)

Chicken Dance Day

Paper Airplane Day

World Toilet Day

Buy Nothing Day

Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day

Leave the Office Earlier Day

Onion Rings Day

Squirrel Appreciation Day

Wiggle Your Toes Day

S’mores Day

Emma M Nutt Day (Are you wondering again? She was the world's first female telephone operator.)

Tin Can Day

Crème Brulee Day

Talk In An Elevator Day

Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

Get Over It Day

Goof Off Day

Weed Appreciation Day

Turkey Vulture Day

Pet Rock Day

Cheese Pizza Day

Procrastination Day

Fight Procrastination Day

Salami Day

Beer Lovers Day

Iguana Awareness Day

Wonderful Weirdos Day

Swap Ideas Day

Make Your Bed Day

International Red Panda Day

Corned Beef Hash Day

 

Imagine if you were on the committee that Designates Commemorative Days. You are at the water cooler talking with a fellow Commemorative Day Designation Associate…

Guy #1… “I can’t believe that we are paid to come up with these Silly Designations.”

Guy #2… “I must admit that I continue to be amazed at this whole process.”

Guy #1… “I’m beginning to get a very uneasy feeling that the public will stop paying attention to our designations.”

Guy #2… “What have you been smoking? Do you actually believe that anyone pays any attention to what we do? I would be willing to bet that we could designate a day honoring Specks of Dust and call it Speck of Dust Awareness Day and no one would ever know that we had declared such a day.”

Guy #1… “You forgot that we did declare such a day last year and, you are right, no one noticed our handiwork.”

Guy #2… “I can’t believe that we are paid to come up with these Silly Designations.”

Guy #1… “I must admit that I continue to be amazed at this whole process.”

 

Using January 2017 as a start I estimated that there are more than 1,300 Designated Celebration Days every year. (I counted up the number of days in January and multiplied by 12.) No, I did not take the time to count up the entire year. I was afraid you would think I was being silly.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: The next thing I will have to waste my time on is Official Days. If you are like me, you have said to yourself, “Did my television just tell me that that toothpaste was the Official Toothpaste of the National Football League?”