Happy St. Joe's Day!

[Suu]

Well, in a half hour.


...Actually, I have no idea wtf this holiday is about other than Jesus's stepdad. I never celebrated it anywhere in this country except RI, because they pretend to be more Italian than anywhere else. All I know is that it involves wearing red and eating zeppole. I was raised a Sicilian Roman Catholic, and I never heard of any of this, even while living on Long Island.

So on the 17th, you drink your face off, and on the 19th, you eat your weight in Italian donuts. 

Actually, I think the Italians in Providence decided to do it to one-up the Irish.

Ofuck, I'm right:

St Joseph's Day is also celebrated in other American communities with high proportions of Italians such as New York City; Buffalo; Chicago [9]; Kansas City, MO; Gloucester, Mass.; and Providence, Rhode Island where observance (which takes place just after Saint Patrick's Day) often is expressed through "the wearing of the red" i.e. wearing red clothing or accessories similar to the wearing of green on Saint Patrick's Day - the observance of St Joseph's Day (and wearing of red) by Italian Americans communities which are also home to significant Irish American communities can take on the overtone of a challenge by the Italian Americans to the power and relevance of those Irish communities and Saint Patrick's Day [10].

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I need to start makin me up some holidays to have an excuse to like dress really stupid, eat horrible things and drink till i pass out in a pool of my own (or someone else's) vomit.

car wreck day
owl day
overly exaggerated goth day
triangle day
cheese day
robot day
stuff in a bowl day
.....

[Dimocritus]

I need to start makin me up some holidays to have an excuse to like dress really stupid, eat horrible things and drink till i pass out in a pool of my own (or someone else's) vomit.

car wreck day
owl day
overly exaggerated goth day
triangle day
cheese day
robot day
stuff in a bowl day
.....

I'd celebrate any of those.

[Rumckle]

They should have made a holiday in between the two where you wear white.

[AFK]

And knowing is half the battle.  Yo Joe!

[Jenne]

I need to start makin me up some holidays to have an excuse to like dress really stupid, eat horrible things and drink till i pass out in a pool of my own (or someone else's) vomit.

car wreck day
owl day
overly exaggerated goth day
triangle day
cheese day
robot day
stuff in a bowl day
.....

Ooh.  THAT has potential...

[Suu]

At KeyBank we celebrated Half-Eaten Sandwich day one year. Basically the idea was that you had to bring a sandwich to work, cut it in half, and swap half for another person's sandwich.

It worked out in my favor, since I brought in PB&J and got half an Italian grinder in return.

[Jenne]

At KeyBank we celebrated Half-Eaten Sandwich day one year. Basically the idea was that you had to bring a sandwich to work, cut it in half, and swap half for another person's sandwich.

It worked out in my favor, since I brought in PB&J and got half an Italian grinder in return.

Sounds more like "pretend you're in 3rd grade and eating in a cafeteria day" but still quite fun...

Also reminds me it's been forever and a day since I had an Italian grinder.  And now thanks to sexy threads in AT, I am no longer thinking of it as a sammich.