My Daily Bread Crumbs 04 Dec

Entry posted by sandrewn in Bread Crumbs 145 December 5, 2021

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December 4th - Holidays and Observances

(click on the day for details)

Christian feast day:
- Ada
- Anno II
- Barbara, and its related observances:
  - Barbórka, Miners' Day in Poland
  - Eid il-Burbara, a holiday similar to Halloween in honor of Saint Barbara. (Russia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey)
- Bernardo degli Uberti
- Clement of Alexandria (Anglicanism, Eastern Catholicism)
- Giovanni Calabria
- John of Damascus
- Maruthas
- Nicholas Ferrar (Anglicanism)
- Osmund
- Sigiramnus
- December 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National Cookie Day (United States)
Navy Day (India)
Thai Environment Day (Thailand)
Tupou I Day (Tonga)

Observances (click on the day or week for details)

World Wildlife Conservation Day

National Dice Day

Fun Observances

Wear Brown Shoes Day

On December 4 take our your best brown shoes and wear them because it is Wear Brown Shoes Day.

The origins of this sartorial holiday are unknown, but we can safely assume that the holiday aims to encourage people to change up their daily dressing rituals.

How to Celebrate?

Wear brown shoes.
If you don’t own a pair, maybe today is the day to go get new brown shoes.
If you usually wear brown shoes to work, why not wear a different shade of brown – perhaps tan or camel or russet?

Did You Know…

…that the shoes that Neil Armstrong wore when he first stepped on the Moon were left behind? Some say this was to avoid contamination, while others suggest that it was to compensate for the weight of the Moon rocks the astronauts had collected.

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A man walks into a bar and the bartender says, "If you can make that horse over there laugh, you can get free drinks for the rest of the night."

The man walks over, says something to the horse, it laughs, and he walks back over to the bar to collect his free drinks.

The next night, the man goes back to the bar and the bartender asks the man if he can make the horse cry.

The man walks over, does something to the horse, and it starts to cry.

The bartender asks, "How did you make it cry?"

The man replies, "Well, to make the horse laugh last night I told it I had a bigger dick and to make it cry tonight I showed it."

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One day a man was walking in the woods when he got lost. For two days he roamed around trying to find a way out. He had not eaten anything during this period and was famished. Over on a rock ledge he spotted a bald eagle. He killed it, and started to eat it. Surprisingly, a couple of park rangers happen to find him at that moment, and arrested him for killing an endangered species. In court, he pleads innocent to the charges against him, claiming that if he didn't eat the bald eagle he would have died from starvation. The judge ruled in his favor.

In the judge's closing statement he asked the man, "I would like you to tell me something before I let you go. I have never eaten a bald eagle, nor ever plan on it, but what did it taste like?"

The man answered, "Well, it tasted like a cross between a whooping crane and a spotted owl!"

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Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them fish?

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A man rushes his limp dog to the veterinarian. The doctor pronounces the dog dead. The agitated man demands a second opinion. The vet goes into the back room and comes out with a cat.

The cat sniffs the body and meows. The vet says, "I'm sorry, but the cat thinks that your dog is dead, too." The man is still unwilling to accept that his dog is dead. The vet brings in a black Labrador.

The lab sniffs the body and barks. The vet says, "I'm sorry, but the lab thinks your dog is dead, too."

The man finally resigns to the diagnosis and asks how much he owes.

The vet answers, "$650."

"$650 to tell me my dog is dead?" exclaims the man.

"Well," the vet replies, "I would only have charged you $50 for my initial diagnosis. The additional $600 is for the cat scan and lab tests."