December 8th - Holidays and Observances

 

(click on the day for details)

• Battle Day (Falkland Islands)
• Bodhi Day (Japan)
• CARICOM–Cuba Day (Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba)
• Christian feast day:
  • Budoc (Beuzec) of Dol
  • Clement of Ohrid (Julian Calendar), and its related observances:
    • Student's Day (Bulgaria)
  • Eucharius
  • Feast of the Immaculate Conception (public holiday in several countries, a holy day of obligation in others), and its related observances:
    • Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Anglican Communion), lesser commemoration
    • Festa da Conceição da Praia, celebrating Yemanjá, Queen of the Ocean in Umbanda (Salvador, Bahia)
    • Festival of Lights (Lyon)
    • Mother's Day (Panama)
    • Lady of Camarin Day (Guam)
  • Patapios of Thebes
  • Pope Eutychian
  • Richard Baxter (US Episcopal Church)
  • Romaric
  • December 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Constitution Day (Romania)
• Constitution Day (Uzbekistan)
• Day of Finnish Music (Finland)
• Earliest day on which National Tree Planting Day can fall, while December 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in December. (Malawi)
• Hari-Kuyō (Kansai region, Japan)
• National Youth Day (Albania)

 

Observances (click on the day or week for details)

National Brownie Day

Lard Day

 

Fun Observances

Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day

December 8 is Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day.

While the origins of this Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day are unknown, we are certain that the creators of this unofficial holiday wanted people to pretend to be time travelers.

Future or Past

In a general sense, most of us do that every day without pretending - we travel from one second to another. But time travelers are special - they have the ability to move from one point in time to another faster or slower than what us normal humans can do. They can travel in the past or travel in the future.

While most physicists and scientists agree that time traveling can be theoretically achieved, our present day technology and scientific knowledge aren't advanced enough to make it a reality.

How to Celebrate?

All you need to do is to pretend that you can travel through time. Act like you just arrived from another century or even another planet. Here are some more ways you can celebrate this fun holiday:

• Watch all your favorite time traveling movies and shows.
• What about hosting a blast from the past party? Choose an era and base the party around the clothing, food and language of that period.
• Walk around dressed like someone from the past or future. Speak old English or Latin or any other ancient language when asked why you are dressed the way you are.

Did You Know…

…that one of the most popular paradox associated with time travel is the Grandfather Paradox? According to this paradox, if a person goes back into time to kill her/her grandfather before he has biological children and succeeds, then one of the person’s parents would never be born, and therefore, the person in question would not exist. This means that the person could not go back in time to kill his or her grandfather, which would mean that the person’s grandfather would have biological children and the person would exist today.

 

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When my local barista handed me my change, one coin stood out. “Look at that. You rarely get one of these old wheat pennies nowadays,” I said, tapping the sheaf of-wheat design. I handed her the penny.

Turning it over and over in her hand, she said, “You know, I always thought they were made of copper.”

 

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One of my wife’s third graders was wearing a Fitbit watch, which prompted my wife to ask, “Are you tracking your steps?”

“No,” said the little girl. “I wear this for Mommy so she can show Daddy when he gets home.”

 

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Could a ...

... librarian be called a bookkeeper?

... referee be a game warden?

... dairyman be a cowboy?

... cabinetmaker be the president?

 

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Dad always bragged about the gunners on his ship. Once during target practice, an unmanned drone flew past an antiaircraft cruiser. The cruiser opened up, shells furiously flying all around the drone but not hitting it.

Then came Dad’s ship’s turn. The gunners’ very first shot sent the drone into the water!

Forty years later, Dad met the man responsible, and he told him how impressed he had been.

“Yeah, I got in a lot of trouble for that,” the gunner said. “Turns out we were supposed to shoot around it, not hit it.”

 

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The little girl was drinking milk in her glass when she tipped it and slipped milk everywhere. The cats wasted no time in making the best of the opportunity.

 

As we know that there is no use to cry over spilled milk, the little girl simply started drinking it off the floor.

 

 

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