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Whilst looking for jolly japes, cracking wheezes and general excuses for silliness, Reg and I stumbled across this:

https://www.thereisadayforthat.com/calendars/2021/03

Forthcoming reasons to be cheerful include...

28 March = national black forest cake day in USA ๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ˜‹

4 April = international carrot day ๐Ÿฅ•๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ˜‹...but only in UK ๐Ÿค”

6 April = INTERNATIONAL new beers eve! ๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป๐Ÿป :-bd

In ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ, 12 April is national grilled cheese sandwich day, national liquorice day AND national Big Wind Day ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿคข.

17 April, Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น = national espresso day โ˜•๐Ÿ˜‹...day of the dangle mug ๐Ÿ˜„.

1 May = international world naked gardening day ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿฆ”๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŒบ๐Ÿฅ€โœ‚๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ฌ.

There's plenty to do, just take your pick :d
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Carrot Day could easily encompass 'Carrot Cake Day' :-bd

And toasted cheese and licorice mixed up is guaranteed to result in Big Wind Day :grin:
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And the single most important day for fans of Douglas Adam's;

25th of May.
World towel day.

I do celebrate it with a tiny towel (when on a trip). Since the Highland Trail group start is round about then, I've some memories of sending mates photos with me and my towel during the event. Very spectacular.
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X_X
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Alpinum wrote: โ†‘Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:41 pm And the single most important day for fans of Douglas Adam's;

25th of May.
World towel day.

I do celebrate it with a tiny towel (when on a trip). Since the Highland Trail group start is round about then, I've some memories of sending mates photos with me and my towel during the event. Very spectacular.
I didn't know that. That's my birthday. On towel day :roll:
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Verena wrote: โ†‘Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:37 pm I didn't know that. That's my birthday. On towel day :roll:
You might want to keep that to yourself, should you want presents to retain the element of surprise :wink: .
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Great news, my birthday falls on INTERNATIONAL CABERNET SAUVIGNON DAY, SLINKY DAY and NATIONAL TOASTED MARSHMALLOW DAY. Itโ€™s going to be wild :-bd

Years ago my brother and I had a wall calendar of wacky holidays like these, one particularly messy, well attended party was held in honour of Yak day. :lol: :-bd
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MuddyPete wrote: โ†‘Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:46 pm
Verena wrote: โ†‘Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:37 pm I didn't know that. That's my birthday. On towel day :roll:
You might want to keep that to yourself, should you want presents to retain the element of surprise :wink: .
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BigdummySteve wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:08 am Great news, my birthday falls on INTERNATIONAL CABERNET SAUVIGNON DAY, SLINKY DAY and NATIONAL TOASTED MARSHMALLOW DAY. Itโ€™s going to be wild
That sounds like great fun, don't suppose we could swap?
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Verena wrote: โ†‘Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:37 pm
Alpinum wrote: โ†‘Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:41 pm And the single most important day for fans of Douglas Adam's;

25th of May.
World towel day.

I do celebrate it with a tiny towel (when on a trip). Since the Highland Trail group start is round about then, I've some memories of sending mates photos with me and my towel during the event. Very spectacular.
I didn't know that. That's my birthday. On towel day :roll:
You might want to look up 'world towel day'.
From from comment I left believing that you might not know the story behind it.
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A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you โ€” daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)[3]

โ€”โ€‰Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It's been a while since I read the book, so thanks for the reminder. Brilliant. I must have intuitively known this, as I always carry a tiny microfibre travel towel when bikepacking :-bd
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Ok, swap a go my slinky for a towel :-bd
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I must be a hoopy frood 'cos I've still got my Don't Panic towel from way back. It doesn't come out very often. Still got vinyls and various other memorabilia too. There was a period when it went uncool to be into HHGTTG but his inventiveness and humour stands the test of time.

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I had โ€˜Donโ€™t Panicโ€™ in large green friendly letters on my camper van, came in handy in far flung outposts of civilisation, in Croatia they called us the donโ€™t panic brothers.

Was hitchers really ever uncool? The books as well?
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It's mean girls day on my birthday :sad:
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My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco :lol:
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whitestone wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:39 pm My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco :lol:
Between Bill Day and Ben Day (*)

(*) NOBODY else but you and I will get that one :smile:
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RIP wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:15 pm
whitestone wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:39 pm My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco :lol:
Between Bill Day and Ben Day (*)

(*) NOBODY else but you and I will get that one :smile:
The flower pot men?
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Flobalobadobble.
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Landslide wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:33 pm Flobalobadobble.
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Verena wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:04 am It's been a while since I read the book, so thanks for the reminder. Brilliant.
Same here, so cheers to you too for the quote :-bd
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Verena wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:27 pm
RIP wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:15 pm
whitestone wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:39 pm My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco :lol:
Between Bill Day and Ben Day (*)

(*) NOBODY else but you and I will get that one :smile:
The flower pot men?
:-bd
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Ooh ooh
My birthday falls on nationial fish and chip day. Yay. I usually end up with a small battered sausage.
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Kumquat wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:30 pm Ooh ooh
My birthday falls on nationial fish and chip day. Yay. I usually end up with a small battered sausage.
Now that's an image to conjure with.....
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RIP wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:10 pm
Verena wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:27 pm
RIP wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:15 pm
whitestone wrote: โ†‘Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:39 pm My birthday falls on "Weed Day". Not sure if that's unwanted plants or aromatic tobacco :lol:
Between Bill Day and Ben Day (*)

(*) NOBODY else but you and I will get that one :smile:
The flower pot men?
:-bd
:-bd
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