What stupid day is it today?

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  • TBonz
    TBonz Posts: 554 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A number of the National Day items come from proclamations from Congress. There are International Days too...and I think many are marketing...you can basically find them all here - http://nationaldaycalendar.com/what-is-today/...I have some friends who are always bringing these up and I asked them how they knew the info...

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    happy National Dandelion Day

  • ThatGuyWithAFace
    ThatGuyWithAFace Posts: 26 ✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    Well, I'm going out to harvest some dandelion greens, traditional spring tonic.

    Its amazing how many flowers are edible that most people - myself included - think are just pretty to look at.

    Found a book on the subject for $1 several years ago. I would have never guessed some plants are edible. Always thought dandelions as nothing more than weeds.
    Cattails were another surprising one thats edible. 😯

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ThatGuyWithAFace said:

    @silvermouse said:
    Well, I'm going out to harvest some dandelion greens, traditional spring tonic.

    Its amazing how many flowers are edible that most people - myself included - think are just pretty to look at.

    Found a book on the subject for $1 several years ago. I would have never guessed some plants are edible. Always thought dandelions as nothing more than weeds.
    Cattails were another surprising one thats edible. 😯

    Check out dead nettle, grows like weeds here,

    https://eattheplanet.org/dead-nettle-an-overlooked-yet-valuable-wild-edible/

  • Amos_Umwhat
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    @silvermouse said:

    @ThatGuyWithAFace said:

    @silvermouse said:
    Well, I'm going out to harvest some dandelion greens, traditional spring tonic.

    Its amazing how many flowers are edible that most people - myself included - think are just pretty to look at.

    Found a book on the subject for $1 several years ago. I would have never guessed some plants are edible. Always thought dandelions as nothing more than weeds.
    Cattails were another surprising one thats edible. 😯

    Check out dead nettle, grows like weeds here,

    https://eattheplanet.org/dead-nettle-an-overlooked-yet-valuable-wild-edible/

    I've mowed several acres of that already this year, who knew? Mom called them "Johnny Jump-ups". Turns half the countryside purple around here in the spring.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    interesting how popular names for plants differ in different areas, these are what we know as Johnny jumoups:

  • ThatGuyWithAFace
    ThatGuyWithAFace Posts: 26 ✭✭

    Didn't know 'dead nettles' were edible. I thought all the 'nettle' plants were poisonous.

    Well....it's safe to say no one should rely on my plant knowledge during a doomsday scenario. :D

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,379 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I guess it's like sumac and poison sumac.

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  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2022

    Nine to pick from today, or get busy and celebrate all of them.

    06
    APR
    CHILDHELP NATIONAL DAY OF HOPE
    06
    APR
    NATIONAL BOOKMOBILE DAY
    06
    APR
    NATIONAL WALKING DAY
    06
    APR
    NATIONAL CARAMEL POPCORN DAY
    06
    APR
    NATIONAL SORRY CHARLIE DAY
    06
    APR
    NATIONAL STUDENT-ATHLETE DAY
    06
    APR
    NATIONAL TARTAN DAY
    06
    APR
    NEW BEER’S EVE
    06
    APR
    NATIONAL TEFLON DAY

  • Jrflickster
    Jrflickster Posts: 4,474 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some real gems today

  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2022

    Thank you @TBonz for posting this website. https://nationaldaycalendar.com/what-day-is-it/ It's the best one I've found on this stupid day subject, and especially since it gives you info on who founded a particularly stupid day. (So you know who to complain to.)

    NATIONAL SORRY CHARLIE DAY
    National Sorry Charlie Day on April 6th each year encourages us to view rejection from a different perspective. It’s a day to think about the times we have been rejected.
    Do you remember Charlie the Tuna? He was often rejected but would keep going with a smile. “Sorry, Charlie” became closely associated with StarKist and was also a successful American catchphrase. Charlie never let rejection stop him. Do not let it stop you!

    NATIONAL SORRY CHARLIE DAY HISTORY
    Cathy Runyan-Svacina of Kansas City, Missouri founded the Sorry Charlie, No-Fan-Club-for-You Club, and National Sorry Charlie Day.

    https://youtu.be/1UM3JpcBHzY

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I could go for a twinkle right about now.

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  • Hobbes86
    Hobbes86 Posts: 3,198 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster said:
    Nine holidays today? Sounds like they can't make up their minds, like Rusty's Make a Wish.

    I say we celebrate national Rusty Day today.

    We could celebrate by blowing up his mailbox.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,379 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I bet there's a disproportionate number of holidays in the spring and summer.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's because the days are getting longer.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Moar tomatoes!

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,379 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hobbes86 said:

    @Yakster said:
    Nine holidays today? Sounds like they can't make up their minds, like Rusty's Make a Wish.

    I say we celebrate national Rusty Day today.

    We could celebrate by blowing up his mailbox.

    Wow, that escalated quickly. Sorry Rusty.

    @WaterNerd great photo!

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  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's also "New Beer's Eve". Tomorrow is National Beer Day. That's one that needs more support.

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