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Holiday Overload and Other Ways to Celebrate any Given Thursday in the Month
Happy Sweetest Day!
So what if people in a majority of the 50 states don't have a clue what that means, enjoy it anyway and celebrate with chocolate, love and the possibility of feeling guilty if you forget, you deadbeat husband, wife, girlfriend or boyfriend.
Sweetest Day is Saturday, October 15th. Grab your credit card, run to the store, buy a card and some plastic flowers on sale from the previous year and act overemotionally like Susan Lucci only wishes she could during Emmy nomination week. You don't buy into a "Hallmark Holiday" like Sweetest Day? Fine, so go live in Hawaii and celebrate Poi Day instead. Rub a piece of conch shell on your forehead, say a prayer to the nearest volcano, sing Don Ho songs until a cop beats you over the head with a pineapple nightstick and campaign for a move to the Great Lakes region where we get overly mushy on a late Saturday in October that is nothing more than Valentine's Day's little brother.
Folks, we might be officially "holiday-ed out" as a nation. Sweetest Day, Secretary Day, Boss' Day, Columbus Day, Holiday Celebration of an Upcoming Holiday Day. We have it covered as a nation, don't we?
Even Lady Gaga and Joe the Plumber think we might be overexposed and overhyped when it comes to celebrating every other day of the week as a national holiday.
Columbus Day? Really? The staff at DotComedy isn't saying the achievement by Chris wasn't special, but if Columbus gets a holiday for running three free-floating garbage scows into a land mass the size of the United State and calling it a major find, then Vespucci, DeSoto, Hudson and Inspector Clousseau should all get their own day on the upcoming Ziggy day planner.
Folks, National Smile Day might be taking the whole holiday thing a bit far. National Breathe on Your Own Day, National Steak Sauce if You Like it and If you Don't That's OK, Too, Day and National Holiday Celebration Day could have memos sitting on President Obama's desk the way we are headed.
Ease up on the holidays, OK? How about Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, 4th of July, St. Patrick's Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day and Halloween is the limit?
Sweetest Day is nice for the greetings card industry, of which the DotComedy staff has a special place for, but we need to set limitations.
It's all too much.
After all, the Ziggy Day Planner only has so many open dates left as it is. And Lady Gaga and Joe the Plumber are still looking for gifts in the mall for Lewis and Clark Day ... the only issue is all the stores are closed for Columbus Day.
We think?
Got a problem with that? Take it up with Don Ho.
BTilton@News-Herald.com
So what if people in a majority of the 50 states don't have a clue what that means, enjoy it anyway and celebrate with chocolate, love and the possibility of feeling guilty if you forget, you deadbeat husband, wife, girlfriend or boyfriend.
Sweetest Day is Saturday, October 15th. Grab your credit card, run to the store, buy a card and some plastic flowers on sale from the previous year and act overemotionally like Susan Lucci only wishes she could during Emmy nomination week. You don't buy into a "Hallmark Holiday" like Sweetest Day? Fine, so go live in Hawaii and celebrate Poi Day instead. Rub a piece of conch shell on your forehead, say a prayer to the nearest volcano, sing Don Ho songs until a cop beats you over the head with a pineapple nightstick and campaign for a move to the Great Lakes region where we get overly mushy on a late Saturday in October that is nothing more than Valentine's Day's little brother.
Folks, we might be officially "holiday-ed out" as a nation. Sweetest Day, Secretary Day, Boss' Day, Columbus Day, Holiday Celebration of an Upcoming Holiday Day. We have it covered as a nation, don't we?
Even Lady Gaga and Joe the Plumber think we might be overexposed and overhyped when it comes to celebrating every other day of the week as a national holiday.
Columbus Day? Really? The staff at DotComedy isn't saying the achievement by Chris wasn't special, but if Columbus gets a holiday for running three free-floating garbage scows into a land mass the size of the United State and calling it a major find, then Vespucci, DeSoto, Hudson and Inspector Clousseau should all get their own day on the upcoming Ziggy day planner.
Folks, National Smile Day might be taking the whole holiday thing a bit far. National Breathe on Your Own Day, National Steak Sauce if You Like it and If you Don't That's OK, Too, Day and National Holiday Celebration Day could have memos sitting on President Obama's desk the way we are headed.
Ease up on the holidays, OK? How about Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, 4th of July, St. Patrick's Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day and Halloween is the limit?
Sweetest Day is nice for the greetings card industry, of which the DotComedy staff has a special place for, but we need to set limitations.
It's all too much.
After all, the Ziggy Day Planner only has so many open dates left as it is. And Lady Gaga and Joe the Plumber are still looking for gifts in the mall for Lewis and Clark Day ... the only issue is all the stores are closed for Columbus Day.
We think?
Got a problem with that? Take it up with Don Ho.
BTilton@News-Herald.com
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