Can you create a new holiday and beat hallmark to the punch?

Question

Create a new Holiday. Name it. Give us the reasons for celebrating it. Stick a date on it. Heck..suggest HOW we should celebrate it.
Winner gets ten point and the strong reccomendation to copyright your idea so that you can charge Halmark a fortune when they start churning out greeting cards for it.

Wow Gold....I'm trying to think of three facts about Oklahoma and I'm having trouble succeeding....I suppose that holiday would go on forever for me...:)
By the way. What is a "sooner"?

And just WHAT about my responses has tied me inevitably in your mind with bathroom humor, Mr. Bill? Hmm? I mean commode dang it! What's this all a grout? Now I'm all flushed!

And indeed silk...I AM a monkey, and have yet to meet an individual who hates monkeys

Numb...have you been letting Stacey near the comp again? Disheveled day and Trade roles day sounds like the creation of the feminine mind...lol Not that I know. My wife and I don't talk...:)

Answer 1

HONESTA— August 7th (because August has no holidays)
Also called opposite day, on this joyous holiday everyone is the opposite of the way they usually are, and there is much pressure and guilt about not complying, for even big corporations, those that lie the most and think its okay, must be completely truthful. Prices are marked as "only triple what it costs to make", people confront each other with their true feelings and tell each other off. At the end of this glorius day a huge feast commences paid for by all the local businesses that have been ripping us off all year and it deteriorates into a food fight called "Repassentment" where we all act out on the ill feelings we accumulated over the course of the afternoon. Gifts are given to those voted "most honest" by those voted "least honest." This practice works out quite well if you think about it you'll realize why. The following week no one works and just recovers from the pain they caused each other and the lying is stepped up to help recovery.

FUNNY VOICE DAY—April 3rd
Everyone talks with the funniest voice they can make. Helium balloons are given out and Kazoos are used by children who don't understand the concept.

CHEW AND SHOW—February 22nd
Brightly colored foods are eaten all day long and everyone chews with their mouth open. When you see a friend or walk in a room it is customary to have your mouth full and burst in saying: "Bleaaaaaah!" and show everyone the contents of your mouth.

DESHEVELED FRIDAY—the last Friday in November
Everybody wears the rattiest clothes and generally looks like sh!t. Women wear no make-up and don't bathe and children are encouraged to spill their food on themselves.
Men just behave like normal.

SARCASTIC WEEKEND—1st weekend in March
pretty self explanitory, converstations usually go like:
"How are you?"
"Yeah right, you care."
"Oh that so bothers you."
"Bother schmother."
"Oh that was hilarious."
"Not like you, you're so much funnier than me."
"Funnier schmunnier."
"I'm so impressed!"
"Oh, thank you so impressive of you to notice!"
"Well your brilliance just rubs off on me."
"Brilliance schmilliance."
"Oh my god, I can't believe how clever that was!"
and so on.

TRADE ROLES DAY—October 8th
Children drive, drink, smoke and work. Adults go to school and have to do everything the angry drunken nauseous children tell them to as they speed by at 100 miles per hour. Men dress like women and women are insensitive to mens feelings.

Propinquitous Perspicacity Day — July 27th
The effete intellectual snobs holiday in which those with high IQ's flaunt their intellect and use overly verbose language in order to belittle and demean stupid people. (Incidentally, this holiday is not observed by the midwestern United States with the exception of Ohio.) The brainiacs all gather in the town square and expound on complex scientific subjects and describe inconcievable concepts and theories in the most pendantic way possible while the ignoramuses all listen patiently trying to gleen some semblance of meaning from it. All the while they are poised and ready holding cream pies behind their backs. At the stroke of midnight, all the smarty-pantses stop talking and the morons jump up and stuff the pies into their faces gleefully shouting things like "Nyah-nyah-na-nyah-nyah!" and "you think yer so smart, well yer not!" and the intellectuals all stand there looking stupid with pie on their faces. For it is now Dopey Dumbells Day, a holiday in which brainless simpletons reign supreme. No one is looked down upon for behaving like an idiot and it's okay to drool and say "Duh...Ah-o-know."

Bug Touching Day —September 1st
This not-so-fun holiday is designed to help people overcome their squeamishness about bugs by simply requiring that everyone familiarize themselves with the object of their fears in an up-close and personal way. Crickets are carressed, Maggots are massaged and big fat cockroaches are felt up. Even big hairy spiders are kissed by the braver observers of this national holiday invented by nature conservationists in an attempt to disabuse the population of the notion that bugs are creepy. Unfortunately the equal rights act allowed sissies to counter with their own holiday, Bug Stamping Solstice — July 28th

WOW BILL SUNDAY —Octembruery Forty-twelfth
Also called "Vengefast," a day of kindness and forgiveness where people don't make snappy comebacks and tit-for-tat is frowned upon. Outrageous claims and accusations are accepted willingly and open-mindedly, In fact a rude gesture is often met with a warm "thank you" and a hug because everyone is "bigger than that" and puts aside their need to retaliate and just turns the other cheek.
This often inspires the aggressor to apologize for their comment and joy and peace is celebrated throughout the land. Even ignored requests to make additions to answers in order to cheer up "a nice girl who's feeling a little down" are forgiven by the less petty observers of this glorious celebration of holier-than-thou-hood. In addition, no pressure is felt by the inspirational force behind this and all the new holidays to do the right thing and chose the clearly more virtuous of holiday founders, If you "know what I'm sain," Cheese! I, er, mean, Cheers!

Answer 2

Ohh, this is fun. Here's a couple right off the bat I'd personally like to see Cheese.

*Direct Day. Six months after April Fools, a whole day where you're forced to tell friends/spouse how you really feel. Hallmark idea: Front of card: "Would it kill ya to life a finger around here?" Inside: "No, not THAT finger."

*Tornado Day. For creative types. Everyone sits under a sturdy table or transom and takes turns exchanging facts and trivia about Oklahoma. "Okmulgee Oklahoma owns the world record for biggest ice cream and cookie party." First person to three wins.

*Umbilical Day. Celebrated nine months prior to your birthday. Have to tie a rope from your belt to your mom's waist, hide under under a bed sheet, then walk around the mall tied together while publicly reciting the ways the two of you are just alike. At the end of the day you exchange presents neither likes.

*Karl Marx Day. Each May 5 (his birthday), dress in 19th century garb, wear false furry mustache/beard, feign German accent, and pontificate on arcane theories like commodity fetishism or Hegelian dialecticism. No presents are exchanged. In fact, no one owns anything. Sure to lose friends with this one; might even get me a thumbs down!

Answer 3

My best friend is a monkey day! most likely shortened to "Monkey Day" or "Monkey Friend Day" It should be held on the first day of second week of the longest vacation, that way we have an entire week to decide who's the monkiest of all the monkies that are our friends...
Once decided, we should celebrate by buying this friend his/her fave drink (or food or both) and spend the day reminiscing & laughing about all his/her monkey-shines & at the end give the person a little stuffed monkey as the 'monkey in a barrel award'
I think that would be fun :)

**edit - oh, I forgot a reason it should be celebrated is - We all love monkeys and their antics really lighten up our lives or the tedium in the office all year through

Answer 4

that's an afternoon that has been celebrated for centuried in the previous the introduction of the fashionable greeting card industry, so'i might could desire to assert that, to a definite volume, that's based in actuality. even even though it relatively is origins are questionable (generally reported to be based on the life of st. Valentine of italy), teh information surrounding this soft saint's life are no longer that solid. in the time of February, A pagan celebration became into "Christianized", basically as Easter and yule have been, and it became an afternoon to instruct love and affection. on the instant the cany and card companies have commercialized the holiday (gee, what a ask your self) and it has develop right into an afternoon to run to the save and purchase low priced chocolate and enjoying cards, particularly of the heartfelt, hand-crafted presents one might have traditionally made.

Answer 5

Guinness Day - May 30th

Celebrate the day everyone's favorite answer babe joined YA. You can only speak in puns which is aided by drinking beer all day. The most devout celebrants will buy a little doggie and give it to their favorite lawyer.


Numbsain Day - July Twenty-eleventh

Guys dress like beatniks and see how may girl's skirts they can look up without getting thrown in jail. Girls walk around cross-eyed and hit on jazz musicians luring as many as possible to their apartments. Bonus points are given for getting the whole band to come. Everybody tries to redeem their accumulated points for a piece of overpriced artwork at a local gallery where, at the end of the day, we get together in a group (or grope) hug and sing Cumbaya.


Cheese Day - October 30th

Dress like the Grim Reaper or a cowboy. Go knocking door to door and when people answer say, "Trick or Cheese". If they try to give you candy, say, "I prefer cheese." If you don't get cheese, regale the people with your favorite bathroom humor. Stay on the porch telling bathroom humor until they slam the door or call the cops.



HiHo Silva Sunshine Day - Feb 1st

Females celebrate by wearing cowboy boots and big sunglasses (...that's about it). They also write original love poems to Matt Dillon and/or James Arness (not for homework, just for fun) and must recite the official Gunsmoke Ode every hour:

O Gunsmoke, my Gunsmoke!
Yea, how thine honor looms
Above all television series
Like the sun ere it's high noon.

O Gunsmoke, my Gunsmoke!
Thy fans, we, thee adore
From dawn to dawn we watch
Transfixed and drooling on the floor.

O Gunsmoke, my Gunsmoke
And, O Matt, my Jim
We kiss thy pictured visage
With vain hopes to marry him.

In the name of Festus, Doc, Kitty and Chester.
Allelujah and Amen.

If the day is sunny, men will shoot a grounhog and present the carcass to their ladies in a ritual sacrifice that promises to end winter 6 weeks sooner. (Wait, ...maybe they only perform the ritual if it is cloudy. ...Oh, just shoot one either way - what's one lousy groundhog.)