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October 10th 2025 - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Arbor Day (Poland) Army Day (Sri Lanka) Capital Liberation Day (Vietnam) Christian feast day: Blessed Angela Truszkowska Cerbonius Daniel Comboni Eulampius and Eulampia Gereon and companions Blessed María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray (Maria Desposorios) Paulinus of York (in England) Pinytus Tanca Vida Dutton Scudder (Episcopal Church) Viktor of Xanten October 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (Sint Maarten) Curaçao Day, anniversary of autonomy Double Ten Day (The National Day of Republic of China), celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that led to founding of the Republic of China in 1912 Fiji Day, celebrates the independence of Fiji from United Kingdom in 1970 Finnish Literature Day (Finland) Independence Day, commemorates the proclamation of Cuba's independence from Spain and the beginning of the Ten Years' War in 1868. Party Foundation Day (North Korea) World Day Against the Death Penalty World Mental Health Day World Porridge Day Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details) Huduma Day Inclusion Day International Stage Management Day Local Government Day Maroons Day - 1 Maroons Day - 2 National Angel Food Cake Day National Cake Decorating Day National Hug a Kevin Day MISTR's National PrEP Day Vet Nurse Day World Animal Road Accident Awareness Day World Egg Day World Homeless Day World Plant-based Burger Day National Hug a Drummer Day World Gulab Jamun Day National Walk to a Park Day SHIFT10 Day International Jumping Spider Day National Formalwear Day Bae Suzy’s Birthday Brett Favre’s Birthday Chaz Smith’s Birthday Cherliz Cohen’s Birthday Da'Vinchi’s Birthday Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Birthday Dan Stevens’s Birthday David Lee Roth’s Birthday Lzzy Hale’s Birthday Marina Diamandis’s Birthday Mario Lopez’s Birthday Marjorie Harvey’s Birthday Meli V’s Birthday Mya’s Birthday Pressley Hosbach’s Birthday Rekha’s Birthday Tanya Tucker’s Birthday Thelonious Monk’s Birthday Gavin Newsom ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fri Oct 10th, 2025 - Thu Oct 16th, 2025 Haemophilia Awareness Week Fun Observances Handbag Day Handbag Day is celebrated annually on October 10. Created in 2013 by Purseblog, a blog that follows the fashion and handbag industry, Handbag Day recognizes the importance of handbags in daily life and in fashion, and acknowledges that a handbag is not only an essential item in a person’s closet, but is also a simple way to make a style statement. The unofficial holiday encourages people to share pictures of their handbags and show their love for this fashion accessory on social media websites. How to Celebrate? Go out and get that high-end handbag you have been eyeing the whole year. Is your handbag a place where things go in to get lost? Perhaps today is the time to clean it out and organize it. Did You Know… …that in the early 1900s, handbag was a term used to refer to men's hand baggage? *** My sister Darlene has the courage—but not always the skills—to tackle any home-repair project. For example, in her garage are pieces of a lawn mower she once tried to fix. So I wasn't surprised the day my other sister, Jesse, and I found Darlene attacking her vacuum cleaner with a screwdriver. "I can't get this thing to cooperate," she explained. "Why don't you drag it out to the garage and show it the lawn mower?" Jesse suggested. *** After a long career of being blasted into a net, the human cannonball was tired. He told the circus owner he was going to retire. "But you can't!" protested the boss. "Where am I going to find another man of your caliber?" *** A guy walks into a bar and there's a horse serving drinks. The horse asks, "What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen a horse tending bar before?" The guy says, "It's not that. I just never thought the parrot would sell the place." *** I was cuddling with my girlfriend, and she said, “I love lying here with you.” “I once caught a fish, and it was five feet long and spoke Hebrew,” I replied. She stared at me, confused. “That was my lie,” I said. “Oh, right. I see. Very funny,” she said. She paused a moment before rolling over. “That was my lie.” *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** sandrewn

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October 9th 2025 - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Abraham Denis Dionysius the Areopagite Ghislain Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias John Henry Newman John Leonardi Luis Beltran Robert Grosseteste (Church of England) Wilfred Grenfell (Episcopal Church (USA)) October 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Fire Prevention Day (Canada, United States) Hangul Day (South Korea) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962. (Uganda) Independence of Guayaquil from Spain in 1820 (Ecuador) Leif Erikson Day (United States, Iceland and Norway) National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Romania) National Nanotechnology Day (United States) Takayama Autumn Festival (Takayama, Japan) World Post Day Indian Foreign Service Day Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details) International Beer and Pizza Day Karva Chauth National C60 Day National Depression Screening Day National Digitool Day National Moldy Cheese Day National Pro-Life Cupcake Day Saint Barthélemy: Abolition Day World Sight Day Scrubs Day PANS/PANDAS Awareness Day National Sneakers Day Harry Potter Book Day Fire Prevention Day Bella Hadid’s Birthday Cody Jones’s Birthday Eddie Guerrero’s Birthday Jackson Browne’s Birthday John Lennon’s Birthday Lecrae Moore’s Birthday Scotty McCreery’s Birthday Sean Lennon’s Birthday Sharon Osbourne’s Birthday Zachery Ty Bryan’s Birthday Guillermo del Toro ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thu Oct 9th, 2025 - Wed Oct 15th, 2025 Baby Loss Awareness Week Fun Observances Curious Events Day Love conspiracy theories? Enjoy pondering about bizarre events that seem to have no explanations? Then Curious Events Day, a made-up holiday celebrated every year on October 9, is just the holiday you need to celebrate! While the origins of this curious holiday are unknown, we suspect that the creators of this day wanted people to stop worrying about the small things in life and focus their attention on all the inexplicable, baffling and peculiar mysteries of the world. Small or Big Events Life is full of curious events - big and small. Like for example, where do all those socks disappear to after doing laundry, or why do people open their mouths when applying mascara? Some mysteries have occupied curious and adventurous minds around the world. These include: Who made the stonehenge and for what purpose? Does Bigfoot exist and can ghosts communicate with humans? And then there are the bigger, more philosophical mysteries of life - like what happens when we die or what is what is beyond the edge of the universe? How to Celebrate? No matter what kind of curious events interest you, Curious Events Day is a holiday to spend some time being inquisitive about the world around you. Read or watch documentaries about some of the more famous curious incidents and events that have happened in the history of humankind – disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, sightings of the Yeti and the Loch Ness monster, crop circles, UFO sightings in Roswell. Become a sleuth yourself and try to find explanations of curious events that intrigue you. Did You Know... ...that the English language idiom curiosity killed the cat, means that getting curious and prying into other people's affairs can get one into trouble? *** Q: What’s the technical name for a pot of coffee at work? A: Break fluid *** Q: If you call a large turkey a gobbler what do you call a small one? A: Goblet. *** When a Butterball Talk-Line staffer asked a caller what state her turkey was in (meaning how thawed was it) the caller responded with, “Florida.” *** A gentleman called Butterball's Thanksgiving Turkey Talk-Line to tell the operator he cut his turkey in half with a chain saw and wanted to know if the oil from the chain would adversely affect the turkey. *** One caller to Butterball's Thanksgiving Turkey Talk-Line had always cut the legs off the turkey before putting it in the oven, thinking that was how you had to cook a turkey. She later learned that the only reason her mom had been doing that was because their oven had been so small that that was the only way to get the bird into the oven! *** After my three-year-old begged and begged, I gave in and 
let her attend a concert with her older sister and brother. As we 
took our seats, I handed programs 
to the kids. Following the lead of her siblings, my three-year-old opened her program and announced, “I’ll have the chicken.” *** *** *** *** *** He eventually decided that people were too untrusting of this deal, so he changed the sign to read "Fridge for sale $50". The next day someone stole it. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** sandrewn

Just the facts: PERNICIOUS Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster PERNICIOUS Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

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October 8th 2025 - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Evodus (or Yves) Palatias and Laurentia Pelagia (Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches) Reparata San Ernesto, Che Guevara as a folk saint. (Bolivian campesinos) Simeon (Gospel of Luke) Thaïs William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard T. Ely (Episcopal Church) October 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) World Space Week (October 4–10) Air Force Day (India) Arbor Day (Namibia) Children's Day (Iran) Navy Day (Peru) International Lesbian Day National Fluffernutter Day Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details) Alvin C. York Day American Touch Tag Day Battle of Angamos Boat Racing Festival Laos Dyslexia Day Emergency Nurses Day Honduras: Discovery of America Day International Birth Registration Day International Newspaper Carrier Day International Top Spinning Day National Bring Your Teddy Bear to School Day National Curves Day National Harbormaster Appreciation Day National Heroes’ Day National Pet Obesity Awareness Day National Salmon Day National Stop Bullying Day World Octopus Day Canadian Beer Day Animal Action Day International Podiatry Day International Off-Road Day National Cowboy Boot Day National Mall Walking Day Bella Thorne’s Birthday Bruno Mars’s Birthday Cara Gosselin’s Birthday Chevy Chase’s Birthday Elz the Witch’s Birthday Famous Ocean’s Birthday Funny Mike’s Birthday G Herbo’s Birthday Gauri Khan’s Birthday Grayson Allen’s Birthday Jack Doherty’s Birthday Jesse Jackson’s Birthday Louise Hay’s Birthday Matt Damon’s Birthday Mikan Mandarin’s Birthday Nava Rose’s Birthday Nick Cannon’s Birthday Sigourney Weaver’s Birthday The Miz’s Birthday Soon-Yi Previn ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wed Oct 8th, 2025 - Sun Oct 12th, 2025 International Cephalopod Awareness Days Wed Oct 8th, 2025 - Sun Oct 26th, 2025 Oktoberfest in Blumenau Fun Observances Pierogi Day October 8 is Pierogi Day, a day to stock up your fridge with delicious dumplings made of unleavened dough. Usually stuffed with meat, potatoes, vegetables and fruit, pierogi have become popular in the United States and Canada due to large Polish immigrant population. Considered to be one of Poland's national dish, pierogi are first boiled and then served several at a time with melted butter or fried with onions. Pierogi Fest In Eastern Europe, most countries have their own version of this dumpling. In the United States, pierogi are a popular dish in Polish communities and many events are held in honor of this humble but delicious dish. In Whiting, Indiana, a pierogi fest is held for 3 days in July, while in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, every Pittsburgh Pirates baseball home game features a pierogi race, where runners in pierogi costumes compete in a race. How to Celebrate? Visit your local Polish restaurant and order yourself a big plate of pierogis. Make sweet and savory pierogis at home and serve to family and friends. Did You Know... ...that people in the village of Glendon in Alberta, Canada love pierogi so much that in 1993 they constructed a 25 feet tall fibreglass pierogi, with a fork through it? *** Don't ever pay a surprise visit to a child in college. You might be the one getting the surprise. I learned this the hard way when I swung by my son's campus during a business trip. Locating what I thought was his fraternity house, I rang the doorbell. "Yeah?" a voice called from inside. "Does Dylan Houseman live here?" "Yup," the voice answered. "Leave him on the front porch. We'll drag him in later." *** I spent an afternoon helping my boyfriend move into a new home. In one carton I found a crockpot, with an odd-looking and very dirty metal lid. Later I ushered my boyfriend into the kitchen and asked why he hadn't mentioned this perfectly good pot. He stared at it, then replied, "Well, after I broke the lid I never thought of replacing it with a hubcap." *** It seemed that all our appliances had broken in the same week, and repairs were straining our budget. So when I picked up the kids from school and our Jeep started making rattling sounds, I decided that rather than burden my husband, I'd deal with it. I hadn't reckoned on my little tattletales, however. They rushed into the house with the news: "Daddy, the Jeep was breaking down, but Mom made the noise stop!" Impressed, my husband asked, "How did you fix it?" "I turned up the volume on the radio," I confessed. *** During that first roll call in the Army, I waited in dread as the sergeant got to my name: DiFeliciantonio. There was bound to be trouble, and 
I was right, because suddenly, he 
fell silent—eyebrows arched, brain overloaded. After a long pause, he thundered, “The alphabet?!” *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** sandrewn

Just the facts: PROLONG Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster PROLONG Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus PROLONGED Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

Yes, I know, but I was feeling like crap while I was looking for a spider joke for today!

October 7th 2025 - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Justina of Padua Henry Muhlenberg (some Lutheran Churches, Episcopal Church of the USA) Osgyth Our Lady of the Rosary Pope Mark Sergius and Bacchus October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Teachers' Day (Laos) Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details) International Day of Peaceful Communication Lao: End of Buddhist Lent Day National Forgiveness & Happiness Day National Fruit at Work Day National Inner Beauty Day National LED Light Day Valmiki Jayanti World Cotton Day You Matter To Me Day National Taco Day National Bathtub Day Team Margot Stem Cell and Bone Marrow Awareness Day National Propane Day World Day for Decent Work Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day Brittani Lancaster’s Birthday Holland Roden’s Birthday Jazmine Hood’s Birthday John Mellencamp’s Birthday Joy Behar’s Birthday Joyce Hawkins’s Birthday Kiara Green’s Birthday Kira Kosarin’s Birthday KITTENS’s Birthday Krissy Cela’s Birthday Lay’s Birthday LDShadowLady’s Birthday Matthew Roloff’s Birthday Miya Houston’s Birthday Mookie Betts’s Birthday Simon Cowell’s Birthday Toni Braxton’s Birthday Trinity Trinity and Beyond’s Birthday ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tue Oct 7th, 2025 - Sun Oct 12th, 2025 The Iris Film Festival Fun Observances Frappé Day Whether you pronounce it with an emphasis on the accented e (frapay) or with a silent e (frap), we can all agree that the chilled and frothed coffee is yummy. Celebrate this beverage on October 7 or Frappé Day. Made by blending instant coffee, milk and crushed ice, Frappés originated in Greece. According to popular lore, the drink was accidentally created by a distributor of Nestle products in the Greek city of Thessaloniki during the 1957 Thessaloniki International Fair. Today, the frappé is a popular coffee drink all over the world. In the New England region of the United States, the term Frappe (pronounced as frap) refers to milkshakes. Many coffee shops offer Frappés in a variety of flavors and with or without coffee. How to Celebrate? Visit your favorite coffee shop and treat yourself to a frappé. Start the day with making a frappé from scratch at home. Experiment with flavors - add chocolate to the drink or honey or maple syrup instead of sugar. Add ice cream to it to make it into a decadent dessert drink. Did You Know… …that the word frappé comes from the French word for beating or striking together?. *** A woman called the Colorado State Division of Wildlife regarding a snake in her backyard. “Can you tell me what kind it is?” she asked. “Can you describe it?” I asked. “Yes,” she said. “It’s long and thin.” *** I spotted several pairs of men’s Levi’s at a garage sale. They were sizes 30, 31, and 32, but I was looking for size 33. So I asked the owner if he had a pair. He shook his head. “I’m still wearing the 33s,” he said. “Come back next year.” *** When my customer ordered 
iced tea, I asked, “Sweetened or 
unsweetened?” Her answer: “What’s the difference?” *** Looking for a job? Here’s one posted on Craigslist: “$40K a Year to Attend Harvard University as Me.” Requirements include a 4.0 GPA in high school or a 3.5 GPA in college. Only males need apply, since, as the listing tells us, “I have a male name.” The lucky person tapped for the gig doesn’t have to do much other than “attend all classes, pass all tests, 
and finish all assigned work while pretending you are me.” Don’t worry about having to actually get into 
the Ivy League school: “I’ve already taken care of that,” he says. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** sandrewn

Just the facts: LIQUIDATE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster LIQUIDATE Synonyms: 139 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

October 6th 2025 - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Blessed Marie Rose Durocher Blessed Juan de Palafox y Mendoza Bruno of Cologne Faith Mary Frances of the Five Wounds Pardulphus Sagar of Laodicea October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) William Tyndale (commemoration, Anglicanism), with Myles Coverdale (Episcopal Church (USA)) World Space Week (October 4–10) Day of Commemoration and National Mourning (Turkmenistan) Dukla Pass Victims Day (Slovakia) German-American Day (United States) Memorial Day for the Martyrs of Arad (Hungary) Teachers' Day (Sri Lanka) Yom Kippur War commemorations: Armed Forces Day (Egypt) Tishreen Liberation Day (Syria) Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details) Chuseok Honduras: Discovery of America Day Kiribati: Education Day Labour Day Mid-Autumn Festival Mid-Autumn Moon Festival National Badger Day National Child Health Day National Coaches Day National Consignment Day National Energy Geek Day National Noodle Day National Orange Wine Day National Plus Size Appreciation Day National Transfer Money to Your Daughter Day Sukkot Vap Full Moon Poya Day World Architecture Day World Cerebral Palsy Day Zero Inbox Day National Physician Assistant Day National Depression Screening Day International Dysgraphia Awareness Day World Habitat Day World Day of Bullying Prevention Addison Rae’s Birthday Fannie Lou Hamer’s Birthday GreekGodx’s Birthday Hadley Horner’s Birthday Joe Goldberg’s Birthday King Badger’s Birthday LeBron James Jr.’s Birthday Melanie Robbins’s Birthday Monique Samuels’s Birthday Ryan's World’s Birthday Surya Chandrasekaran’s Birthday Trevor Lawrence’s Birthday Vaughn Raines Jr.’s Birthday Elisabeth Shue ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mon Oct 6th, 2025 - Fri Oct 10th, 2025 International Plasma Awareness Week National Scaffolding Week International Week of Happiness at Work Mon Oct 6th, 2025 - Sun Oct 12th, 2025 Active Aging Week PA Week Celebrate Community Week National Spinning and Weaving Week Dyspraxia Awareness Week Hospice Care Week Mon Oct 6th, 2025 - Mon Oct 13th, 2025 Irish Road Safety Week National Curry Week Fun Observances Mad Hatter Day Celebrated annually on October 6, Mad Hatter Day celebrates the Hatter, a key character in Lewis Carol’s Alice in Wonderland. The unofficial holiday was created in 1986 in Boulder Colorado by a group of computer technicians who were inspired by the Hatter and his antics in the epic fantasy novel. In the book, the Hatter is an eccentric milliner for whom time is forever stuck at a tea party with his friend the March Hare. 10/6 The date for the holiday was chosen because of how John Tenniel illustrated the Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. The English illustrator who was also a political cartoonist depicted the Hatter wearing a hat with a piece of paper that has 10/6 written on it. The 10/6 refers to the cost of a hat – 10 shillings and 6 pence. The creators of the holiday who are from the United States where the date is written in the month/day (mm/dd) format took this to set the date for the holiday on October 6 (10/6). For those who write the date in the day/ month (dd/mm) format, the holiday would fall on June 10. How to Celebrate? Read Alice in Wonderland. Watch the movies based on the novel. Wear a hat the whole day. Host an Alice in Wonderland themed tea party. Did You Know... ...that even though this holiday is called Mad Hatter Day and that the Hatter is also popularly known as the Mad Hatter, Lewis Carol never refers to the character as the Mad Hatter? *** After a number of attempts to get the customer service agent on the phone to understand his name, my Asian American friend Appappa decided to spell it out. "A for apple," he began. "P for pineapple, p for pineapple, a for apple, p for pineapple, p for—" The flustered agent interrupted. "I have a better idea," she said. "Just tell me how many apples and how many pineapples." *** My husband, who uses a wheelchair, showed up at his eye doctor's for an appointment. The receptionist checked the schedule, then said, "The nurse will call you in a moment. Have a seat." He smiled. "Done." *** I provide technical support for the computer software published by my company. One day, over the phone, I was helping a customer install a product on a Macintosh. The procedure required him to delete an old file. On the Mac there is an icon of a trash can that is used to collect items to be permanently deleted. I told the customer to click on the old file and drag it to the trash. Then I had him perform a few other steps. As a reminder, I said, "Don't forget to empty the trash. Obediently he replied, "Yes, dear." *** The village blacksmith hired an enthusiastic new apprentice 
willing to work long, hard hours. 
He instructed the boy, “When I take the shoe out of the fire, I’ll lay it on the anvil. When I nod my head, you hit it with the hammer.” The apprentice did exactly as he was told, and now he’s the new village blacksmith. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** "A Scottish theme tonight" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ( Sorry, I just couldn't resist this one! ) *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ( 78th Highlanders group, Montreal, Qc, 1869 ) *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** sandrewn

Just the facts: ABSOLVE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster ABSOLVE Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

Just a quick comment on the replies so far to our word, Absolve. I found them, for the most part, to be quite, absorbing.

October 5th 2025 - Holidays and Observances (click on the day for details) World Space Week (October 4–10) Armed Forces Day (Indonesia) Christian feast day: Anna Schäffer Faustina Kowalska Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos (Roman Catholic Church) Blessed Bartolo Longo Thraseas Hor and Susia (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria) Placid and Maurus Placidus (martyr) October 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (Vanuatu) Engineer's Day (Bolivia) International Day of No Prostitution Republic Day (Portugal) Teachers' Day (Pakistan) Teachers' Day (Russia) World Teachers' Day Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details) Change A Light Day International Blessings of The Fishing Fleet Day Janmostav of Srimatna Sankardev Myanmar Full Moon of Thadingyut National Above the Bus Day National Apple Betty Day National Be Nice Day National Caribbean Civility Day National Do Something Nice Day National Get Funky Day National Kiss a Wrestler Day National Military Podcast Day National Rhode Island Day World Communion Sunday World Meningitis Day Global James Bond Day Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day Charge Your Car Day Balloons Around the World Day National Get Out N Drive Day National GOE Day Aaron Carpenter’s Birthday Bernie Mac’s Birthday Dillon Francis’s Birthday Erica Banks’s Birthday Gerardo Ortiz’s Birthday Jada Symone’s Birthday James Valentine’s Birthday Jesse Eisenberg’s Birthday Joe Torgerson’s Birthday Kate Winslet’s Birthday Mahogany LOX’s Birthday Mario Lemieux’s Birthday Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Birthday Nicky Hilton’s Birthday Rachel Brathen’s Birthday Sarah Schauer’s Birthday Steve Miller’s Birthday Travis Kelce’s Birthday ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sun Oct 5th, 2025 - Tue Oct 7th, 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival Sun Oct 5th, 2025 - Sat Oct 11th, 2025 Mental Illness Awareness Week National Midwifery Week Healthcare Foodservice Workers Week Fire Prevention Week Fun Observances Chic Spy Day October 5 is Chic Spy Day, a day to acknowledge that a well-dressed spy is always more successful in catching the bad guys than a scruffy one. The unofficial holiday is a tribute to the elegant and stylish spies in popular culture and was created in 2015 by chicspy.com, a fashion website. It commemorates the anniversary of the day in 1962, when the chicest spy of all – James Bond – made his debut on the big screen in a movie called Dr. No. Starring Sean Connery and Bond, the film was based on a novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Fashionable and Resourceful The spy genre of movies has frequently featured sophisticated and well-dressed protagonists who are not only equipped with fighting skills that can put a ninja to shame, but are also charming, attractive and immensely likable. All spies - men or women - in movies tend to own state-of-the-art espionage and surveillance equipment. As a genre, spy movies are as old as the film industry. They became especially popular during the Second World War and the Cold War era. Today, spy movies tend to focus on themes such as terrorism and governmental corruption. How to Celebrate? Have a favorite spy? Spend the day watching his or her movies. Watch Dr. No and all of James Bond's movies. Have a spy party. Ask your guests to dress up like their favorite spy; serve shaken, not stirred martinis; and share notes about why you think your favorite spy is the chicest. Did You Know… …that even though Dr. No was the first James Bond film, Casino Royale was the first Bond novel ever published? *** Q. How do you make the number one disappear? A. Add the letter G and then presto—it's Gone! *** Q. There's a one-story house where everything inside is pink: pink walls, pink doors, pink floors, pink ceilings, pink windows, pink curtains, pink chairs, and pink tables. What color are the stairs? A. There are none—it's a one-story house! *** Comedian Daniel Tosh is no fan 
of the expression “The worst day 
of fishing is better than the 
best day at work.” “I’ve watched The Deadliest 
Catch on Discovery,” 
he said. “I’ve never once 
been at work, capsized in 
40-degree water, watched all my coworkers die, and been like, ‘Hey, at least we’re fishin’.’” *** If you stop eating doughnuts you will live three years longer, but it's just three more years that you'll want a doughnut. *** A few weeks? after the death of my father-in-law, I found my seven-year-old son crying in bed. His grandmother had died the previous year, and he was taking it all very hard. "You know, Kyle," I said, "when we die, we'll get to see Grandma and Grandpa again in heaven." With tears spilling down his face, Kyle cried, "That's easy for you to say. You don't have that long!" *** Three fans were bemoaning the sorry state of their football team. “I blame the general manager,” said the first fan. “If he signed better players, we’d be a great team.” “I blame the players,” said the 
second fan. “If they made more of 
an effort, we’d score some points.” “I blame my parents,” said the third. “If I’d been born in Seattle, 
I’d be supporting a decent team.” *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** sandrewn

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