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>It is, apparently, a bit of whimsy which persists for no reason other than the beginning of February doesn't have anything else going on .. I thought that the "silly season" was in the summer. 
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The celebration of the true cross-quarter day, the 3rd for the Eve and the 4th for the Day, at least this year, is called GroundFrog Day to avoid confusion with Groundhog Day. The definitive story is:
De GroundFrog come up out de hole an he look aroun
Den he open one eye an he look around some more
Den he open de nother eye
An if de nother eye see the one eye dey gone be 40 days an 40 nights of rain
Or winter
Whichever more convenient.
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re: "Something-or-other Day"
A quick check at bluemountain.com reveals all sorts of days about animals, some from legend, some manufactured by the greeting card industry. For example,
Jan. 20th is Penguin Awareness Day
Jan. 22nd is Answer your Cat's Questions Day
of course there's Feb. 2, Groundhog Day
March 1st is National Pig Day
May 5th is Lobster Race and Oyster Parade Day
June is Adopt a Shelter Cat Day
June 2nd is Yell Fudge at Cobras Day
July 15th is Cow Appreciation Day
August 28th is Race Your Mouse Day
September is Chicken Month
September 22nd is Elephant Appreciation Day
September 23-29th is National Dog Week
October 10-16 is National Wildlife Week
November 18th is Buffalo on the Block Week (300-400 surplus buffalo will be auctioned off in Custer, SD
by the way, April 26th is "Hug an Australian Day." ;-)
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it
so. WS, Hamlet, II.ii.249
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I thought that the "silly season" was in the summerNo no, Jo, don't you remember the song? "The Lusty Month of May". Bingley, let me be the first to wish you Happy Birthday 2001. Welcome, Sarah! Yes, I've seen those silly-but-funny "days". And I'll hug any Australian I know, any day I get the chance to! 
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sarahgutch noted : May 5th is Lobster Race and Oyster Parade Day
At one time I was part of a group looking into the possibility of starting an event or two that would bring visitors and locals to an event and make a few bucks for the local merchants and help with the downtown revitalization.
(I was one of two newspeople there for the publicity aspects.)
We got pretty excited when one guy suggested a Lobster Race! That is until I checked with the local Fish and Game officer ... seems lobsters can move only when in water! That ended that.
Aloha, wow
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>GroundFrog Day
Yes, I know it well. I think the film featured Kermit and his co-star Miss Piggy.
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seems lobsters can move only when in water!
Not the lobsters I know. I grew up on the New England coast, and as (cruel) kids we used to set them on the linoleum in the kitchen and watch them scoot around. They moved a bit erratically, and weren't exactly speedsters (and went backwards, as they moved by flicking their tails under them), but if you really, really wanted to have a lobster race you could probably rig something up. But it wouldn't be much fun.
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They moved a bit erratically .... to have a lobster race you could probably rig something up. But it wouldn't be much fun.
Exactly, Hyla, exactly!
Aloha, wow
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re: "by the way, April 26th is "Hug an Australian Day." ;-)"
Hey - They must have known - April 26 is my birthday!! All hugs gratefully received!!!
I wonder if "they" made a mistake - it would be far more appropriate to hug an Aussie the day before, April 25, now observed by a public holiday ("ANZAC Day"). It refers to the day in WW1 when a combined force of Oz and Zild soldiers stormed the Turkish forces holding the cliffs at Gallipoli Cove. Our boys died by the thousand. Pretty tough when the population of the whole country at the time was somewhat more than a million - and considerably less in Zild.
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Wile both sides of the ANZAC combine are quite happy to go to war with each other over who made pav.s first (silly fight really, everybody knows it was the Kiwis), I haven't read anything about the origin of those unarguably Antipodean treasures, to wit, ANZAC biscuits. Since reality tells us that confections very much like modern pavlovas have been made in Vienna for a very long time, ANZAC biscuits appear to be the only uncontestably Australasian confection. Is this so?
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