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[Bob Riebe]

The glorius day is here; MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[Bob Riebe]

Merry Second Day of Christmas, yes , there may be Ten more of these greeting, 22 if you count Orthodox Christmas.

[Bob Riebe]

Merry 3rd day of Christmas and Happy St. Stephen's day.

Edited by Bob Riebe, 12 January 2023 - 18:26.

[Bob Riebe]

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 12:

• Curried Chicken Day 
• Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day 
• Healthy Weight, Healthy Look Day - January 12, 2023 (Second Thursday in January)
• Kiss a Ginger Day 
• National Hot Tea Day 
• National Marzipan Day 
• National Pharmacist Day 
• Stick to Your New Year's Resolution Day 
• Work Harder Day

Merry Sixth Day of Orthodox/Coptic Christmas.

[Alan Lewis]

[Homer Simpson]
Mmmmm, marzipan...
[\Homer Simpson]

[Doug Nye]

Item 4 listed above has just shocked the normally unshockable Mrs Nye, on the basis that it's blatantly gingerist.

 

A. Farnham Woke-Bod

[malomay]

Being an ex-ginger myself (now more white sadly.....

 

I feel I have to comment quite strongly on the above list.......

 

 

 

......I will be lobbying for the immediate introduction of Curried Chicken Day in Australia !

[John Ginger]

Does being a Ginger in name only still count for item 4?

[BRG]

I managed the hot tea.  And i haven't broken any resolutions since I didn't make any.  Two out of nine isn't so great though.  I could have done the curried chicken at lunchtime, if only I had known.

[blackmme]

Mrs Blackmme is a very beautiful ginger indeed so I was more than happy to be able to officially recognise the importance of yesterday!

 

Regards Mike

[Bob Riebe]

 St. Knut's Day is today!.  

 

Dates of St. Knut's Day

2024 Saturday, January 13thSt. Knut's Day

2023 Friday, January 13thSt. Knut's Day

2022 Thursday, January 13thSt. Knut's Day

2021 Wednesday, January 13thSt. Knut's Day

2020 Monday, January 13thSt. Knut's Day

Summary The Christmas period in Sweden carries on until the “dancing out” of Christmas on “tjugondag Knut”. Local name Tjugondag Knut

 

 St. Knut's Day (Tjugondag Knut, or "The 20th Day of Knut") marks the end of the Christmas season in Sweden—with parties, song and the dismantling of the yule tree (which traditionally is thrown out the window - Julgransplundring).

Named for Knut (or Canute) IV, also Knut the Holy, former king and patron saint of Denmark.

Edited by Bob Riebe, 13 January 2023 - 19:46.

[Sterzo]

^ The norm in English schools is to spell him as C-n-u-t. A school-teacher friend set each child in his class the task of mocking up a newspaper front page featuring a historic event, little expecting that a dyslexic boy would attempt the headline C-n-u-t Repels Waves."

Edited by Sterzo, 13 January 2023 - 21:55.

[Bob Riebe]

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 14, include:

 

• Orthodox New Year
• 8th Day of Christmas
•  
• Eagle Day - January 14, 2023 (Second Saturday in January)
• Feast of the Ass (Donkey) - (Celebrates all the donkeys of the Bible)
• International Kite Day 
• National Dress Up Your Pet Day 
• National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day 
• National Vision Board Day - January 14, 2023 (Second Saturday in January)
• Ratification Day  
• World Logic Day

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[BRG]

Damn it, I have missed the chance to celebrate Dress Up Your Pet Day with a hot pastrami sandwich.  Not that such a delicacy is available round these parts of the UK.  Cold pastrami, yes, we can do that, but hot?  

 

Bob, your mission is to keep this up for the rest of the year.

[Bob Riebe]

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 15, include:

• Makar Sanranti

Makar Sankranti falls on January 14 or January 15 in certain years. Makar Sankranti is the very first major festival to be celebrated in India and is one of the universally celebrated Hindu festivals. Unlike other Hindu festivals — which follow the lunar calendar — Makar Sankranti follows the solar calendar and thus falls on the same day each year. This festival signals the end of winter and the beginning of the harvest, and is even observed outside India — in Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

 

• Hat Day 
• National Bagel Day 
• National Booch Day 
• National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day 
• Strawberry Ice Cream Day 

Merry Ninth Day of Christmas, only 3 more to go.

[malomay]

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 14, include:

 

• Orthodox New Year
• 8th Day of Christmas
•  
• Eagle Day - January 14, 2023 (Second Saturday in January)
• Feast of the Ass (Donkey) - (Celebrates all the donkeys of the Bible)
• International Kite Day 
• National Dress Up Your Pet Day 
• National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day 
• National Vision Board Day - January 14, 2023 (Second Saturday in January)
• Ratification Day  
• World Logic Day

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

It was great to see the inclusion of World Logic Day here.......because it is sadly lacking on the other 364 days of the year

[Bob Riebe]

 

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 16, include:

 

• Blue Monday - January 16, 2023 (Third Monday of the Year)
• Book Publishers Day 
• Civil Service Day 
• International Hot & Spicy Food Day 
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day - January 16, 2023 (Third Monday in January)
• National Day of Service - January 16, 2023 (Third Monday in January)
• National Fig Newton Day 
• Religious Freedom Day
• Robert E. Lee Day - January 16, 2023 (States of AL, AR, MS)

Merry Tenth Day of Christmas, clock is ticking.

[BRG]

Are they still allowed to have a Robert E Lee Day?  I thought all the Confederacy stuff had been erased from modern society?

[Bob Riebe]

Are they still allowed to have a Robert E Lee Day?  I thought all the Confederacy stuff had been erased from modern society?

The liberal news sources reported what they wanted to ; it is gone where politicians could gain from it;  where no such gain could be made the status quo remains.

 

Robert Byrd (Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr) was a leading Democrat Seantor and has buildings named after him; he was also former head of the KKK and no one has said squat about changig the names of the buildings.

Edited by Bob Riebe, 17 January 2023 - 18:36.

[Bob Riebe]

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 17, include:

• Ben Franklin's Birthday 
• Cable Car Day 
• Customer Service Day 
• James Leonard Tagle Gordon Day, commemorated on January 17, is a national holiday in the Philippine
  History of James Leonard Tagle Gordon Day
• James Leonard Tagle Gordon was born to an American Marine father and a Filipino mother on January 17, 1917. He continued working in the Philippines in both the civil and humanitarian sectors. He developed a strong sense of family and with the help of his friends, he founded the Boys Town-Girls Home, which still stands today. The home took on the burden of taking care of roughly 70 wards. Amelia J. Gordon, Gordon’s widow, carried on his legacy of compassion by raising children from extremely low-income households until she died in 2009.
• Hot-Buttered Rum Day 
• International Mentoring Day  
• Kid Inventors' Day 
• National Bootleggers Day 
• National Hot Heads Chili Day 
• Popeye Day 
• Printing Ink Day - January 17, 2023 (Closest Tuesday to January 16)
• Rid the World of Fad Diets & Gimmicks Day - January 17, 2023 (Third Tuesday in January)

Merry Eleventh Day of Christmas, one more day and the blues start.

Edited by Bob Riebe, 17 January 2023 - 19:16.

[BRG]

• Rid the World of Fad Diets & Gimmicks Day - January 17, 2023 (Third Tuesday in January)

Merry Eleventh Day of Christmas, one more day and the blues start.

I will in future celebrate that Day!!  

 

As for the blues starting.....Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Robert Johnson?

[opplock]

  

 

As for the blues starting.....

 

Every day I have the blues.

[Bob Riebe]

I will in future celebrate that Day!!  

 

As for the blues starting.....Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Robert Johnson?

Ah Blues Music, used to be able to go to a lot joints in the Twin Cities and listen to Blues, now it is a fading away, even some artists have noted that Blue fact.

 

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 18, include:

• Maintenance Day 
• Museum Selfie Day - January 18, 2023 (Third Wednesday in January)
• National Gourmet Coffee Day  -- YES!!!
• Peking Duck Day 
• Thesaurus Day 
• Winnie the Pooh Day

Last day of Christmas till December 25, 2023, -- at least up here we have a solid snow cover, which has been iffy for the past decade too often.

Merry Christmas.

[10kDA]

• Peking Duck Day

A friend sent me this last week:

 

>Today's post from my local online community crime page...

People post things all the time on our local community crime online network to warn others:

 

So I got Chinese take-out last night and as I got in the car I heard the bag rustle, so looked over and saw a pair of eyes looking out of the top of bag at me, then disappear back inside.

I was so scared. I nearly said a few profanities!

I looked again, saw the eyes looking out at me then disappear again, so of course I grabbed the bag and ran back into the restaurant.

I asked the guy behind the counter, “What the heck was going on?!”

He said, "You asked for the Peking duck…”

 

What would you do in this scenario?<

[BRG]

• Thesaurus Day

This Day of course has several other alternative names.

[10kDA]

Bob warned us this day would come...

 

[Bob Riebe]

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 19, include:

• Archery Day 
• Artist as Outlaw Day
• Brew a Potion Day 
• Confederate Memorial Day - (State of Texas)
• Get to Know Your Customer Day - January 19, 2023 (Third Thursday of the Start of Each Quarter, Jan/April/July/Oct)
• Good Memory Day 
• National Gun Appreciation Day
• National Popcorn Day
• Orthodox church, Epiphany
• Robert E. Lee's Birthday - (State of Florida)
• Tin Can Day 
• Women's Healthy Weight Day - January 19, 2023 (Thursday of the Third Full Week of January)
• World Quark Day

Edited by Bob Riebe, 20 January 2023 - 00:06.

[BRG]

Why do some States celebrate Robert E Lee on January 16th, if his birthday was January 19th? 

[opplock]

Why do some States celebrate Robert E Lee on January 16th, if his birthday was January 19th? 

 

At a guess state legislatures demonstrated their contempt for the yankees by proclaiming that Robert E Lee day is to take place on the same day as the national Martin Luther King day.    

[Bob Riebe]

At a guess state legislatures demonstrated their contempt for the yankees by proclaiming that Robert E Lee day is to take place on the same day as the national Martin Luther King day.    

The other way around.

 Texas made "Lee Day" a holiday in 1931. In 1973, "Lee Day" was renamed Confederate Heroes Day. Florida Statute 683.01(d) marks January 19 as Robert E. Lee Day, although no offices or schools close down for it.

[Bob Riebe]

Why do some States celebrate Robert E Lee on January 16th, if his birthday was January 19th? 

MLK was born on the 15th.

The Julian Calendar?

 

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 20, include:

 

         Armed Forces Day in Mali. Malian army was founded on October 10, 1960

• Commemoration Day of Defenders of the Barricades in Latvia
• The Day of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is a Ukrainian observance held every January 20. It was created to commemorate the 1991 Crimean sovereignty referendum that resulted in the re-establishment of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
• Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of the Donetsk Airport in Ukraine
• Heroes' Day in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. This is a public holiday that commemorates the assassination of Amílcar Cabral in 1973.
• Inauguration Day 
• International Day of Acceptance 
• International Fetish Day - January 20, 2023 (Third Friday in January)
• Martyr's Day in Azerbaijan. This day commemorates the events of Black January (also called Black Saturday), that took place in 1990 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
• Men’s Day in Iceland
• National Bill Cosby Sweater Day 
• National Buttercrunch Day
• National Cheese Lover's Day 
• National Coffee Break Day 
• National Disc Jockey Day 
• Penguin Awareness Day 
• Tamborrada, that is held in San Sebastián, Spain.
• Take a Walk Outdoors Day

Edited by Bob Riebe, 20 January 2023 - 19:14.

[opplock]

Alabama and Mississippi observe both MLK and RE Lee days on the third Monday in January. The timing of their state holiday was changed in 1985, 2 years after MLK day became a national holiday. The following is from Wikipedia but is consistent with many US sites. 

 

"Robert E. Lee Day is a state holiday in parts of the Southern US, commemorating the Confederate general Robert E. Lee.^[1]

January 19 was marked by the governor of Tennessee as Robert E. Lee Day in 2013.^[2][3]

Texas made "Lee Day" a holiday in 1931.^[4] In 1973, "Lee Day" was renamed Confederate Heroes Day.^[5]

Florida Statute 683.01(d) marks January 19 as Robert E. Lee Day, although no offices or schools close down for it.^[6]

Alabama^[7] and Mississippi^[8][9] observe it on the third Monday in January, in order to split the date with the federal holiday Martin Luther King Jr. Day.^[10]

Arkansas combined the observance of Robert E. Lee Day with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 1985, after two years of requiring state employees to select between the two holidays or their own birthday as a day off from work.^[11] In 2017, it passed a law removing General Lee's name from the January holiday and instead establishing a state memorial day on the second Saturday of October in honor of Lee.^[12] In 2000 Virginia experimented with splitting Lee–Jackson–King Day into a separate Lee–Jackson Day on the Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, dropping the former in 2020. Georgia formerly called the Friday after Thanksgiving Robert E. Lee Day; now it is only an unnamed paid holiday.^[13]"

[D-Type]

A friend sent me this last week:

 

>Today's post from my local online community crime page...

People post things all the time on our local community crime online network to warn others:

 

So I got Chinese take-out last night and as I got in the car I heard the bag rustle, so looked over and saw a pair of eyes looking out of the top of bag at me, then disappear back inside.

I was so scared. I nearly said a few profanities!

I looked again, saw the eyes looking out at me then disappear again, so of course I grabbed the bag and ran back into the restaurant.

I asked the guy behind the counter, “What the heck was going on?!”

He said, "You asked for the Peking duck…”

 

What would you do in this scenario?<

I'd go on the wagon

[BRG]

I am sorry now that I opened the Robert E Lee can of worms!

• Penguin Awareness Day - this must be getting towards bottom of the barrel scraping, I reckon!

[Vitesse2]

 

I am sorry now that I opened the Robert E Lee can of worms!

• Penguin Awareness Day - this must be getting towards bottom of the barrel scraping, I reckon!

 

Small beer. When HMQ died last September, according to a reader's letter to The Guardian, Guinea Pig Awareness Week was postponed.

[Tim Murray]

[Bob Riebe]

Holidays on January 21st 2023

 

International: Chinese New Year Holiday The Chinese New Year marks the start of the lunar new year, which occurs sometime between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20. Also known as the Spring Festival, it is considered one of China’s most important celebrations, with each year being named after one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. Festivities include fireworks, parades, and performances. The holiday closes with a lantern festival.

 

Barbados: Errol Barrow Day Commemorates the Birthday of Errol Barrow, who was the first Prime Minister of Barbados

 

Dominican Republic: Lady of Altagracia Our Lady of Altagracia is a portrait of the Virgin Mary painted in the 16th century, kept in The Basilica of Our Lady of Altagracia in the city of Salvaleón de Higüey

 

South Korea: Korean New Year Holiday Known as Seollal, Korean New Year is the first day of the lunar Korean calendar. It is the most important of the traditional Korean holidays

 

Vietnam: Tet Eve Day before Tet, the most important holiday in Vietnam

 

Observances on January 21st 2023

 

USA: National Granola Bar Day Find out the dates, history and traditions of National Granola Bar Day

 

USA: National Hugging Day Find out the dates, history and traditions of National Hugging Day

 

USA: Squirrel Appreciation Day Find out the dates, history and traditions of Squirrel Appreciation Day

 

Poland: Grandma's Day Find out the history, traditions and dates of Grandma's Day in Poland.

 

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General Information for January 21st 2023 There are 5 public holidays today. Day 21 of 2023 344 days left in 2023 Week 03 of the year On this Day in History 1994 - South-central Pennsylvania, USA reaches -22° Fahrenheit (-27°C) - the coldest temperature ever recorded in the region. 1955 - The 7,150-ton freighter Kingsbridge becomes stranded on Brighstone Ledge in the Isle of Wight's waters. She is finally refloated on 28 January, when she was towed back to sea by several tugs and a helicopter. 1940 - Statistically the best golfer of the 20th Century, Jack Nicklaus is born to Louis Charles Nicklaus Jr and Helen Nicklaus in Columbus, Ohio, USA. 1867 - Emperor Joshua Norton I of America is arrested by policeman Armand Barbier on the grounds of insanity.

 

 

[BRG]

Small beer. When HMQ died last September, according to a reader's letter to The Guardian, Guinea Pig Awareness Week was postponed.

HM's love of guinea pigs came only second to her love of corgi dogs  (who knew Corgi made models of dogs?).

 

They are a great delicacy in the Andean area, served roasted as cuy.  My second in command at work had that during a trip to Peru and she reckoned it was still repeating on her when she got back to London.

 

Bob Riebe:

 

You are excelling yourself!  I imagine National Hugging Day went into decline during the pandemic?

[Bob Riebe]

Appreciation, Awareness, Children

Jan 22 Sunday

 

Chinese New Year Cultural Cultural, Food

 

Dance of the Seven Veils Day Religious Christian, Cultural, Historical

 

Grandpa's Day Relationship Appreciation, Family

 

National Bible Sunday Religious Christian

 

National Blonde Brownie Day Food & Beverage Dessert, Food

 

National Hot Sauce Day Food & Beverage Cooking, Food

 

National Polka Dot Day Fun Celebrity, Crazy, Fashion

 

National Sanctity of Human Life Day Cause Appreciation, Awareness, Women

 

National Ty Day Fun Appreciation

 

National Vincent Day Fun Appreciation

 

Plurinational State Foundation Day Cultural Appreciation, Cultural Holidays

 

Children’s Week Special Interest Children, Cultural, Educational

 

Kiss a Shark Week Animal Appreciation, Conservation, Educational

 

National School Choice Week

Edited by Bob Riebe, 23 January 2023 - 19:29.

[10kDA]

I was surprised, puzzled, and annoyed that National Vincent Day seems to have no connection to motorcycles. I'm expecting they'll tell me something equally surprising, puzzling, and annoying about Indians next.

[BRG]

Kiss a Shark Week???  I'm giving that a miss this year.....some of those sharks have still got Covid-19.

[Bob Riebe]

Mon Jan 23rd, 2023

Popular

National Rhubarb Pie Day

Who knew that such a tasty dessert could be made out of something that is technically classified as a vegetable?!

Mon Jan 23rd, 2023

Wellington Anniversary Day

Mon Jan 23rd, 2023

National Handwriting Day

Mon Jan 23rd, 2023

National Pie Day

Mon Jan 23rd, 2023

National Measure Your Feet Day

Mon Jan 23rd, 2023 - Wed Feb 1st, 2023

Snow Sculpting Week

Sun Jan 15th, 2023 - Wed Jan 25th, 2023

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Sat Jan 21st, 2023 - Tue Jan 24th, 2023

Korean New Year

   

 

 

 

[Derwent Motorsport]

We do have Burns Night on Wednesday, perhaps the most traditional and international celebration despite it's humble beginnings in Scotland. We have a freshly shot haggis reading for cooking and will be enjoying a dram or two!

[Bob Riebe]

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 24, include:

• Beer Can Appreciation Day 
• Belly Laugh Day 
• Change a Pet's Life Day 
• International Mobile Phone Recycling Day 
• National Compliment Day 
• National "Just Do It" Day 
• National Peanut Butter Day 
• Speak Up and Succeed Day - January 24, 2023 (Fourth Tuesday in January
• Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

[Bob Riebe]

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 25, include:

• A Room of One's Own Day 

• Tatiana Day -  is named after Saint Tatiana.

  Tatiana was a Christian martyr in 3rd-century Rome during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus.

  The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates St. Tatiana's feast on 12 January Julian, which corresponds to 25 January Gregorian.
• Fluoride Day

• St. Dwynwen Day - a fifth-century saint (died 460) who lived in seclusion at Llanddwyn Island.

  The patron saint of friendship and love in Wales, St Dwynwen (Santes Dwynwen) was a Welsh princess.

• Dwynwen was rather unlucky in love, so she became a nun. She prayed for true lovers to have better luck than she did.

• National Irish Coffee Day 
• National IV Nurse Day  (I have had sone who needed a LOT of practice.)
• Observe the Weather Day 
• Opposite Day 
• Robert Burns Day 
• Thank Your Mentor Day

I has now been one Month since the first day of Christmas, only Eleven more to go.

Edited by Bob Riebe, 25 January 2023 - 19:34.

[BRG]

 

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 24, include:

• Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

How does that one work?  I could do Talk Like  A Pirate...maybe it is similar?

 

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 25, include:

• Robert Burns Day

I plan to have haggis for lunch today.   

 

Great Chieftain o' the puddin' race

[Bob Riebe]

How does that one work?  I could do Talk Like  A Pirate...maybe it is similar?

 

Well, lelh me tell yeh. yous whipper snappers taint gots the smarts me an Beulah, me mule caus wes been trappin in these hills for quite a spell, Yous still wet behinden yous ears.

[Bob Riebe]

2023 Daily Holidays that fall on January 26, include:

• Australia Day
• International Customs Day 
• Lotus 1-2-3 Day 
• National Green Juice Day 
• National Peanut Brittle Day
• National Pistachio Day 
• Spouse's Day 
• Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement

[DouglasM]

Lotus 1-2-3 Day, now that's rekindles memories of a sheet too big to be saved on a floppy disc. I suddenly feel ancient.

[Collombin]

Would it make you feel younger again to know that half the TNFers were probably thinking it was a reference to a race at Goodwood in 1964?