2008

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A word cloud of the active page of this tumblr, via...

“When Day Breaks,” a film by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, via the National Film Board...

“The Cat Came Back,” a film by Cordell Barker for The National Film Board of Canada.

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I always said that, if I missed a day, I’d hang it up. I managed three posts every day from...

“Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck,...”
— Larry Adler, harmonica player...

Happy Holidays:

It’s Fresh Breath Day. Want a mint?

“I think, therefore I’m single.”
— Lizz Winstead, comedian,...

“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand...”
— Marilyn Monroe, actor, model,...

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It’s National Night Out. It’s about reducing crime, not lap dances and drinking...

“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse...”
— Louis Armstrong, jazz...

Louis Armstrong

“‘But the Emperor has nothing on at all!’”
— Hans Christian Andersen, poet...

Hans Christian Andersen

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Today we celebrate the forgot branch of the Armed Forces: It’s Coast Guard Day.

“God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into...”
— P.D. James, crime novelist and...

“Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in...”
— Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette,...

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette via wikimedia commons

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It’s International Friendship Day. It’s a good day to celebrate your friends, or make...

“I can’t understand people calling themselves religious...”
— Mojo Nixon,...

“Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react...”
— William S. Burroughs, avante...

William S. Burroughs

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It’s National Mutard Day! Don’t forget to get the t-shirt.

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard...”
— Herman Melville, author and...

Herman Melville, via wikimedia commons

“The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and...”
— Pola Negri, actor, femme...

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It’s Girlfriend’s Day. You don’t have to be a Red Hat Lady to celebrate, but us...

Jul

“If young American males have no better role models than...”
— Lynn Reid Banks, author, was...

Lynn Reid Banks

“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with...”
— Denis Diderot, philosopher and...

Denis Diderot, via wikimedia commons

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It’s Bikini Month. Today is the last day. I’d have told you sooner, but I didn’t...

“You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you...”
— Lisa Kudrow, actor, producer,...

“I know what’s best for me, after all I have been in...”
— Claudette Colbert,...

Claudette Colbert

Happy Holidays:

It’s Cheesecake Day! W00t!

“How about I slip out of this dress…”
— Adele Stephens, model and...

“Thank God I’m an atheist.”
— Luis Bunuel, film maker and...

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It’s Single Working Woman’s Week. Since y’all are working, I’m taking the...

“Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata...”
— Philip Proctor, comedian,...

“Bring me A bowl of coffee before I turn into a goat.”
— Johann Sebastian Bach,...

Johann Sebastian Bach

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It’s National Milk Chocolate Day.

“I like strangers to be strange…”
— Maya Rudolph, comedian and...

“Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.”
— Bob Hope, actor, comedian,...

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It’s Parents’ Day. Make your kids get you presents!

“No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn’t think...”
— Kate Beckensdale, actor with...

Kate Beckensale

“I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Perón and my...”
— Eva Perón, who was a woman but...

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It’s Cowboy Day, ladies! It’s Cowboy Day for you “brokeback” gentlemen,...

“The band has a liberal philosophy - that’s sort of a...”
— Thurston Moore,...

“A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge,...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It’s the Day Out Of Time, which celebrates the signing of the Roerich Peace Pact, which allows...

“Mr. Fitzgerald — I believe that is how he spells his name —...”
— Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald,...

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, via Wellesley College

“A broad with a big future behind her.”
— Joan Bennet, actor with an eye...

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It’s National Tell And Old Joke Day. I’d tell one, if I had one.

“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10...”
— Raymond Chandler, author who...

Raymond Chandler, via WikiCommons

“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious...”
— Ulysses S. Grant, US Civil War...

Ulysses S. Grant

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It’s Hot Enough for Ya Day. Oddly, today is cooler than it’s been for weeks.

“The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer.”
— William Archibald Spooner,...

William Archibald Spooner

“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”
— Carl Sandburg, poet,...

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It’s Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day. You are getting sleepy, very sleepy…

“You, the actor, must be aware of when you’re being...”
— John Lovitz, actor, comedian,...

“It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress...”
— D.W. Griffith, failed...

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It might be Cow Appreciation Day today. Then again, it might be on the 28th. Chase’s says...

“They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult,...”
— Dame Diana Rigg, actor and...

“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a...”
— Bruce Lee, the most...

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It’s National Ice Cream Month, this month. And today, the third Sunday of the month, is...

“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to...”
— Edgar Degas, impressionist...

Edgar Degas via Buzzle.com

“I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the...”
— Alan Lomax, folklorist,...

Happy Holidays:

It’s Woodie Wagon Day.

“I couldn’t sing that well … She says,...”
— Screaming Jay Hawkins, the...

Screaming Jay Hawkins - “I Put a Spell On You”

“The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be...”
— Carl van Doren, author,...

Happy Holidays:

It’s Cell Phone Courtesty Month. I’m sorry, but a month won’t do it.

“A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.”
— Phyllis Diller, comedian and...

“My work may be garbage but it’s good garbage.”
— Mickey Spillane, best selling...

Mickey Spillane

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It’s Rabbit Week. Some people celebrate in January, but we won’t quibble.

“Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.”
— Barbara Stanwyck, eleventh...

Barbara Stanwyck

“I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I...”
— Harry Chapin,...

Happy Holidays:

It’s Personal Chef’s Day, and I want one!

“Don’t ever be afraid to step out and do something...”
— Kim Alexis, model, actor, and...

“Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living...”
— Anton Chekhov, writer,...

Anton Chekhov, via NNDB

Happy Holidays:

It’s Gummi Worm Day! Mmmmmmm! Gummi worms!

“It must be my new shampoo.”
— Nancy Olson (as Betty...

“It is so painful to see him in the morning, he does not have...”
— Julie Manet, writing about...

Julie Manet, via wikimedia commons

Happy Holidays:

It’s National Bikini Month. Yea! Here’s some trivia, if you’re interested.

“There was no way my dog was going to Missouri.”
— Danni Boatwright, model,...

Danni Boatwright

“Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?”
— Frida Kahlo, artist, died on...

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It’s Embrace Your Geekness Day. If you’re reading this, you qualify. And you deserve a...

“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn’t for him,...”
— Milton Berle, Mr Television...

“Olivia Newton-John - Australia’s gift to insomniacs....”
— Minnie Riperton,...

Minnie Riperton whistle register retrospective

Happy Holidays:

It’s Hot Dog Day!

“I think my lips are very sensual and I’d like to keep...”
— Carla Campbell, lippy model,...

“Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean...”
— Ross MacDonald, hard-boiled...

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Well, it’s more a historical note than a holiday (though I am sure some are celebrating): On...

“At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends’...”
— Jessica Simpson, pop singer...

Jessica Simpson

“Oh, goody! My Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator!”
— Mel Blanc (as Marvin Martian),...

Mel Blanc as the voice for Private SNAFU in “Booby Traps.” Private SNAFU appeared in 26...

Happy Holidays:

On the day celebrating Clerihew there are many things you can do all require rhyming but none...