Dear Sillies,
I'm often bewildered by "National/World Days." Who comes up with this stuff, and why combine things like a dental visit with Oreo cookies? That's awfully strange and hygienically destructive. I'd love your thoughts.
At any rate, happy March!
I'm often bewildered by "National/World Days." Who comes up with this stuff, and why combine things like a dental visit with Oreo cookies? That's awfully strange and hygienically destructive. I'd love your thoughts.
At any rate, happy March!
From the spruce.com, the first week's celebrations follow.
- March 1: National Peanut Butter Lover's Day
There's more than one lover of Peanut Butter. Move that apostrophe!
- March 2: Dr. Seuss's Birthday, National Read Across America Day
- March 3: World Wildlife Day, World Book Day
but we just read across the country in Dr. Seuss' honor yesterday. We're supposed to read all over again, while celebrating wildlife? Okay, but watch out for that...t r e e eeeee
- March 4: National Hug a G.I. Day, National Grammar Day, World Obesity Day, Employee Appreciation Day
Whewee, which G.I. do I get to hug? I hope he's a hottie with good spelling and a big...knowledge of appropriate grammar.
World Obesity Day? Are you kidding me? First off, we celebrate Obesity Day every single day in the United States. But hey, let's enjoy another excuse to eat more donuts and fast food and wash it down with an extra large Starbucks mocha latte espresso whatever with extra whipped cream, carmel and chocolate syrup, not blended, no ice. Thank the fine employees who keep us obese and/or try their damn-dest to get us there. 
Sorry not sorry that Whoopi has big thoughts on obesity.
- March 5: National Day of Unplugging (first Friday of every March) Psst, I don't think they mean anything sexual by "unplugging," Tori.
March 6: National Dentist's Day and
National Oreo Cookie Day
Oh the irony. To indulge before or after visiting your friendly dentist??
- March 7: National Cereal Day
in case you didn't pack enough sugar into your first 6 days of March!
I'm just staggering from one celebration to the next! So many celebrations, so little time!
ReplyDeleteI think we're caught up as long as we keep eating junkfood, Debra.
DeleteI couldn't find anything at spruce.com. But I did find this site... https://nationaldaycalendar.com/what-is-today/ Just scroll over the date on the calendar and find out what 5 - 10 things today is.
ReplyDeleteIt's thespruce.com, Mike. This stuff is all ridiculous to me. =)
DeleteAll these national holidays mean offices and shops are closed. You can’t even buy Oreos on National Oreo Cookie Day... or is it National Oreo’s... or Oreos’ Day?
ReplyDeleteHa. I don't know. You can visit your dentist, though, on National Oreo Cookie Day, right?
DeleteThanks Mitchell.
Oreo Cookies and the dentist? Gross.
ReplyDeleteWhoopie will spend that day eating either food or her words...let's hope it's the food.
Haha. Great point, Alex. She needs to eat her own words quite often. Perhaps that explains her broad stature.
DeleteSmiles.
Why don’t they just call it Fat Day and show pics of the Walmart people. Truly....celebrating fatness, obesity, humongous, cellulite day should also show all the crap people eat, heart monitors, blood pressure gauges, diabetic needles, pills, a diet pop because many think that helps their fat plus a coffin. Now, granted, some can’t help it and struggle their whole life but most got fat due to not watching what they eat and not exercising. I know, I didn’t seem to eat much but I got fat and hated it. Due to the operation I was going to get and what the doctor said, I went on weight watchers plus I went on my hypoglycaemic diet...no sugar, starch or caffeine. This means, no pasta, rice, breads, coffee, nothing sugary and nothing starchy. Yes, no potatoes, perogies, Lima beans , brown beans, kidney beans, no bananas-too starchy. I do have 2 toast, whole wheat, with honey. I have orange juice but I mix it with soda water. 3 parts soda water to 1 part OJ. You know, it’s a mindset because, I love chocolate...LOVE. I did cheat at Christmas but I watch my frickin points. I have lost 44 lbs so far and feel so much better. So when a fat chick says she feels great and she walks around like a whale in spandex, I don’t believe her. Oh and when the media call fat celebrities “curvy”, they need to be slapped. Marilyn Monroe was curvy, Sophia Vergares is curvy...they others are fat...plain and simple.
ReplyDeleteWhoopi needed to have a a Twinkie shoved in her mouth when she blabbed stupidity.
Haha. I love you more with every post. Congraulations on your weight loss, Birgit. That's amazing. I'm working on mine. It's extra tough when you're no longer a youngin. I fully agree too. I've had obesity and diabetes in my family, lots of heart disease too. But "body shaming" means we can't call fat, fat. And that's stupid. People can call me shorty all they want. I can't control that. Overweight people can take steps (literally) to address the problem, but we can't raise awareness about healthy lifestyle? It should be called "Health Awareness Day" or "Nutrition Day" or something positive. Otherwise, let's all eat the biggest donuts we can find in Whoopi's fat honor.
DeletePS Yeah, I hate the anti-Semitic idiocy she spewed a few weeks ago. She's a big fat idiot.
Congratulations Birgit! I'm in awe of your resolve and would have a hard time doing without caffeine or pasta. Thank you for inspiring me to shed this pandemic weight gain! As for Whoopi's recent comments, I was shocked she would say something so stupid. Robin, "Health Awareness Day sounds much more positive than "Obesity Day." I know all too well how hard it is to lose weight the older we get.
DeleteI like Alex and Birgit's responses.
ReplyDeleteGeorge of the Jungle was a better song than movie. Especially the version by Weird Al.
The song is so catchy I can hear it now. I loved the cartoon but the song even more, Diane. Not sure I've heard Weird Al's version. I'll check it out.
DeleteI'm not a big fan of manufactured "days" and have never heard of these. Speaking as a fat person (partly genetic, partly health-related, partly my fault entirely - probably the same for Whoopi), I wanted to know more about World Obesity Day (who would celebrate being fat?!) and found that it's all about helping people and eliminating fat shaming, which is extremely hurtful. Congrats to Birgit for her weight loss success!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your honesty, Debbie. I wanted to know more too. I take issue with the name. It seems to shame people by drawing attention to Obesity. I don't understand why it's not given a positive spin, as I wrote to Birgit, like "Health Awareness Day" or "Nutrition Day." And if we're going to have a World Obesity Day, I want a Short Person's Day or Weight Loss Success Day. =)
DeleteYes, congratulations to Birgit!
I agree with you completely about the name, Robyn. There's definitely a stigma attached to the word "Obesity" and "Health Awareness Day" sounds much better. BTW, Short Person's Day is Dec. 22. ☺ Birgit has inspired me to do better.
DeleteThere actually IS a Short Person's Day, Debbie? You just made my day today with that. I can't wait to celebrate, not sure how, but I WILL celebrate.
DeleteThank you. Smiles.
👌😆
DeleteI think Whoopi will celebrate with Chris Christie.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they'll share a doughnut.
Oh, silly me. Maybe they'll have a dozen doughnuts.
Each.
I can see her stuffing her face as Chris reaches over to grab her -- he's slapped and cursed out like never before. It's not pretty, Al. Not at all pretty.
DeleteDoughnut Crime.
DeleteSociety's horrible secret.
Haha. Touche!
DeleteI try to find some sensible (and writing releated) world/national days to highlight in my newsletter. My favourite, which I didn't have room to include this month, is Procrastination Week. 6-12 March. The perfect week for a writer!
ReplyDeleteYou'll include Procrastination Week next year, my friend. There's always next year for Procrastination. Smiles.
DeleteKinda funny that National Obesity Day is right after Mardi Gras this year. Then folks can swear off their beignets, gumbo, and booze. As for Dental/Oreo day - indulge before - give those dental hygienists a challenge (I always thought black licorice would make them re-think their career) and PS - yes, I brush my teeth before visiting the dentist, but I think about licorice or Oreos.
ReplyDeleteGood point. It was fat Tuesday this week too, Joanne. Keeping those dental students challenged.
DeleteCheers.
When I was driving for Uber this past Tuesday, I received a text from my girlfriend asking me to pick up some kielbasa, zatarain's, and beignets. She wanted to celebrate Mardi Gras. Being still full from lunch, I told her I was reluctant to put the "fat" in Fat Tuesday.
DeleteHaha. You can get beignets around there? I'm salivating at the thought. Can't have a Fat Tuesday without them, Al. And for a gal with a sweet-tooth, every Tuesday's a fat one!
DeleteThere's a wonderful nearby restaurant called "Taste of New Orleans." It is fantastic.
DeleteSounds wonderful!
DeleteI saved your blog for last to stop me from blogger procrastination. My carrot system worked. blog roll read and I'm logging off laughing. Right after I find out what Whoopi said about obesity...
ReplyDeleteHaha. I'm honored, Elizabeth.
DeleteThat Whoopi, oh my. Do you know that her real name is Caryn? It kinda all makes sense now.
National Obesity Day? Ah yes, I have found my people! Ha! Pull up a chair, pass the box of donuts around and bring along the chocolate shakes. I'm fat and I'm ok with that. Bring on the cookies!
ReplyDeleteWarm chocolate chip cookies, that is, Mary, with ice cream on the side. Mmmm. Oh drats, there aren't any left. Sorry.
DeleteDid Tori Spelling get stung by a bee? Or the whole hive?
ReplyDeleteHa. I don't know, Al, but my goodness. Every day is Tori's fat Tuesday. To think, men have fought for her? She didn't even get her papa's inheritance.
DeleteLet's call it what it is. Fatness should not celebrated. Incredibly bad for one's health, let alone the drain on the health system. Funeral services love them though. Those Extra Large 'curvy' caskets cost a bomb! As does the hire of the bulldozer to put it in the ground.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the outcry for a National Alcohol or Tobacco Day?
As for Whoopi, if she had made those same comments and was a white man, there's no way she'd have her job now.
Funny post Robyn. Good for you calling it out!
Thank you, Anthony. I agree with all of that.
DeleteLet's call fat, fat, but let's not celebrate it. It's not that difficult of a concept.
I liked Whoopi when she started. But she should've quit before she got fat and idiotic and anti-Semitic and stupid. Oy vey.
Love ya. Thanks for stopping by.
I now want Oreos and cereal.
ReplyDeleteI know. Me too. Sorry. =)
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