June 8th 2022 - Holidays and Observances

 

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• Christian feast day:
  • Blessed Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan
  • Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (Droste zu Vischering)
  • Chlodulf of Metz
  • Jacques Berthieu, S.J.
  • Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Poland
  • Medard
  • Melania the Elder
  • Roland Allen (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Thomas Ken (Church of England)
  • William of York
  • June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in June. (Australia, except Western Australia and Queensland)
• Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
• Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
• Engineer's Day (Peru)
• Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia)
• World Brain Tumor Day
• World Oceans Day

 

Observances

International Day of Action for Elephants in Zoos

National Name Your Poison Day

National Upsy Daisy Day

Thomas Paine Day

Michael FamilyFunPack

Joan Rivers

 

Fun Observances

Best Friends Day

June 8 is Best Friends Day, a day to celebrate your best friend and let them know how important they are to you.

Best friends are the best! They are the friends you can call up at any time of the day, laugh with for no reason at all, and confide in. They are there for you in all your good and bad times, they support you, validate all your good decisions and stop you from making wrong ones. In other words, without best friends, life would be very bleak indeed.

How to Celebrate?

Whether you grew up with them or met them later in your life, let your best friend know that you cherish them on Best Friends Day. Here are some ways you can celebrate this friendly holiday:

• Thank your best friends for being in your life by doing something special for them. Maybe send them a special gift basket full of things they like or treat them to their favorite dessert.
• Spend time with your best friend and do things that both of you enjoy doing together.
• Don't live in the same city as your best friend? Call them or send them a note letting them know how much you miss them. Better yet, why not try to make a surprise visit? They'll love to see you, and you can spend the day with your favorite person in the world!

Did You Know…

…that according to some sources, the finale of the hugely popular TV series, Friends, ranks as one of the top 5 most watched series finales of all times?

 

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At a planning meeting at my college, I congratulated a colleague on producing some superb student-guidance notes explaining how to combat plagiarism.

"How long did it take you to write them?" I asked.

"Not long," he said. "I copied them from another university's website."

 

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It's so quiet in the Hollywood Starbucks this morning, you can hear a name drop.

 

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I’d noticed that my 60-year-old father seemed to be losing his hearing, so I mentioned it to my mother.

"Things haven’t changed that much," she said. "Only difference is, before, he didn’t listen. Now, he can’t."

 

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It’s tough enough selling a home nowadays. Don’t make the mistakes that turned off these readers on the City Room blog of The New York Times:

• "It was a good house, well-maintained. But the bed with the person in it was off-putting."

• "The family dog, long departed, was stuffed and standing next to the fireplace. RIP Sparky."

• "The main distraction was dirt. Although there was the tiny child who proudly showed us the refrigerator full of ‘Daddy’s beer’ just outside an upstairs bedroom."

 

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