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National Peach Cobbler Day
April 13th, 2012
The largest peach cobbler ever baked was 11.5 feet wide and 8 inches deep, allegedly made to celebrate the Georgia Peach Festival. Yum. That's a peach cobbler that's big enough to bathe in, not that we've ever tried it. Though we have heard peach cobbler works as a natural moisturizer.
Scrabble Day
April 13th, 2012
The official game of rainy days spent stuck in the hotel during a beach vacation, Scrabble is sold in 121 countries, with 29 different language versions. The highest recorded single word score was 365 points for quixotry. Coincidentally, quixotry is a word that describes Don Quixote-like impractical quests, like the one you'd be on if you ever tried to beat that score.
According to folklorists, there is no written evidence for a "Friday the 13th" superstition before the 19th century.[1][2][3] The earliest known documented reference in English occurs in Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini:Rossini was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; Why Friday the 13th Is UnluckyConsequently, several theories have been proposed about the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.
One theory states that it is a modern amalgamation of two older superstitions: that thirteen is an unlucky number and that Friday is an unlucky day.
However, experts agree that this is a relatively recent correlation, and most likely a modern-day invention. Although according to some, this date corresponds with the arrest of the Knights Templar by King Philip IV of France.[4][5][8]
- In numerology, the number twelve is considered the number of completeness, as reflected in the twelve months of the year, twelve hours of the clock, twelve gods of Olympus, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles of Jesus, the 12 successors of Muhammad in Shia Islam, etc., whereas the number thirteen was considered irregular, transgressing this completeness. There is also a superstition, thought by some to derive from the Last Supper or a Norse myth, that having thirteen people seated at a table will result in the death of one of the diners.
- Friday has been considered an unlucky day at least since the 14th century's The Canterbury Tales,[4] and many other professions have regarded Friday as an unlucky day to undertake journeys, begin new projects or deploy releases in production. Black Friday has been associated with stock market crashes and other disasters since the 1800s.[3][5]
- One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,[6] in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.[1]
- Records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common.The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code. On Friday, 13 October 1307, hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested in France, an action apparently motivated financially and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day of Clement V's coronation, the king falsely charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the Pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently. [7]
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This time tomorrow....I should just be getting to Ruston.
Ex Spouse Day
April 14th, 2012
Our spouses are our best friends' until they aren't. Then they become our exes. Eh, happens all the time. And though we may try to say good-bye forever, they'll always be in our lives. So today give your ex a call and say, 'Thanks for the memories.' Then hang up before you say what's really on your mind.
National Pecan Day
April 14th, 2012
The pecan is the only nut that's native to North America. Except of course for the lug nut, but those aren't so tasty when baked in a pie. Show off your North American pecan pride by heading to a coffee shop and ordering a slice of pecan pie today.
Reach as High as You Can Day
April 14th, 2012
Today's the day to reach for the stars and see how far you can go. Then, when you're done with that, can you reach way up there and grab the pancake mix off the top shelf in the pantry? We're having company over for breakfast and we're just too busy to track down the stepladder and do it ourselves. Thanks, you're a doll.
Had a fantastic time at the Spring Game today. I was impressed at the depth we have at receiver and running back. Everything looks good!
Only 365 days until Spring Game :)
National Rubber Eraser Day
April 15th, 2012
It was on this day in 1770 that Joseph Priestly came across a vegetable gum rubbery substance that was used to erase pencil marks. Known now as the eraser, we usually find them conveniently adhered to pencils, an innovation of the Hymen Lipman company in 1858. It's been said that before the rubber eraser, crustless bread was used to rub away errors. It was a process that never produced results and also wasted a lot of precious food. Not to mention giving new meaning to the term 'crumby writing.'
National Stress Awareness Day
April 16th, 2012
You know that stress you've been feeling? It started with the New Years resolution let down, then came the Valentine's Day romantic pressures, then the mid-winter discontent and, finally, tax season. You know, that stress? You do? Ok just wanted to make sure you were aware of it. Carry on.
Blah, Blah, Blah Day
April 17th, 2012
If it seems like all you ever hear is 'blah blah blah' then maybe it's time to ask yourself, 'Why is everyone on my back about stuff?' We bet the answer is 'because they've asked you a million times to do something and so far you just stare blankly at them, as if they're only saying blah blah blah.' So today's the day to finally run those errands, do those chores and, while you're at it, take care of the yadda yadda yadda as well.