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Day of X
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From Root Canal Appreciation Day to World Turtle Day, every day is the International Day of something. Day of X keeps you up to date with bulletins, badges, campaigns and seriously ill-advised celebration suggestions.
Recent Posts
Signing off with a Day of X Retrospective
A fair number of people have joined us just as the blog was winding down, so I thought for their enjoyment, and as a look back for those of you who've been reading from the start, I'd do a little Day of X retrospective/greatest hits post to wrap up.F...
August the 1st: Girlfriend's Day and Goodbye
Blah blah blah girlfriends. Blah blah horrible e-cards. Blah blah satire.Hollow laughter.Okay, it's time to lay my cards on the table. It's no secret that the quality of the updates here has been dropping lately. Less funny, less original and less go...
July the 31st: System Administrator Appreciation Day
Image by iharfilipau via FlickrSystem Administrator Appreciation Day falls on the last Friday of July, and it's the day to appreciate the lucky guy (or occasionally girl) who keeps your computer(s), your network and your internet connection working, ...
July the 30th: Insulin Appreciation Day
Image via WikipediaHappy Insulin Appreciation Day, everybody!On this day in 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best injected a test subject, a dog called 410 (giving dogs actual names didn't catch on until the early 1930s), with pancreatic extract, ...
July the 29th: Lasagna Day, for God's Sake
Image by rachel is coconut&lime via FlickrSigh.It seems that the world's population are so desperate to justify their grotesque overindulgence that we're well on our way to having every single day in the damn calendar dedicated to a specific food...
July the 28th: Milk Chocolate Day
Image via WikipediaJuly the 28th is another of those Days which is called "National" but has become, through the power of the internet, an International event - Milk Chocolate Day.It's not to be confused with Chocolate Day (assigned variously to Sept...

