August 8
Twins Day
Two cartons of yogurt
walk into a bar.
The bartender, says to them,
“We don’t serve your kind in here.”
One of the yogurt cartons says to him,
“Why not? We’re cultured individuals.”
Here’s a funny thing about Twins Day, it is celebrated both 8/7 and 8/8…In case twins are born on different days?
It is also World Cat Day, and you know how much I love cats, so here’s a cat quote: “When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ~ Michel de Montaigne. So, true.
Over on our AUGUST calendar of a month full of Smiley Silliness is perhaps the funniest holiday I’ve stumbled upon so far. It’s Sneak a Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Front Porch Day. Appropriately timed for the time of year when zucchinis loom (and grow) large.
But best of all it’s it’s Happiness Happens Day. Such a better way of looking at the world than the more popularly touted “Sh** Happens,” don’t you think?!
Today we say happy birthday to DustinHoffman (1937), EstherWilliams (1921), and MatthewHenson (1866). That last guy, does his name ring a bell? It should. He was the co-explorer along with Admiral Peary to first reach the North Pole in 1909. Someday history books will be rewritten to include the contributions and achievements of African Americans!
Oh then there’s Princess Beatrice, Prince Andrew and Fergie’s daughter. Not only did she luck out on the whole being born as a princess thing, but her birthday is 8-8-88. I remember thinking in early December on 1987, that it’d be good to get pregnant right them and aim for giving birth on a cool birthday. Yep I’m that big of a number nerd. Nope, I’m not goofy enough to do such a thing.
BTW, the Smileys and holidays on a month full of Smiley Silliness are all different than the ones you see here on the website’s Daily Smiley.
Plus as is often the case, just for grins, you get a different Twins Smiley in the Smiley-a-Day emailer.