October 18

[In_The_Wind]

National Chocolate Cupcake Day

National Sweetest Day

National Newspaper Carrier Day

National No Beard Day

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. If you have a chocolate beard and are a newspaper carrier, you have 3 reasons to celebrate.

beards? Some men look good in them, some don't. Definitely trimmed is better than the Leo Tolstoy model.

Beard burn can be an unfortunate side effect of kissyface.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Excellent point about 3 reasons to celebrate.

Personally: I prefer a man with a neatly groomed beard.
I get the kissyface beard burn easily.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. I see.

My guy shaves and makes sure he shaves before any extended kissyface happens.

[In_The_Wind]

8. He is very wise.

[betsuni]

4. Happy Birthday to A.J. Liebling

From "Between Meals":

"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. Each day brings only two opportunities for field work, and they are not to be wasted minimizing the intake of cholesterol. They are indispensable. like a prizefighter's hours on the road. ... A good appetite gives an eater room to turn around in."

[bigwillq]

5. Are you and Sherman A1 the same person?

Sherman A1 was posting these kinds of threads for a few days ago. And now you are.

Twins?

[pinboy3niner]

6. Posted Friday by Sherman A1:

Daily Holidays
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018678219

[In_The_Wind]

9. I should have added the link to my OPs. Thank you.

I'll include it in the future.

[pinboy3niner]

10. Either that, or...

...just admit that you're his sockpuppet.

[In_The_Wind]

11. ...

(I'm glad I'm not a sockpuppet for an obnoxious DUer)

[bigwillq]

14. Thanks for the info!

[In_The_Wind]

7. Is he my sock-puppet or am I his?

I see you've been provided with a link for the real answer to your question.

[bigwillq]

15. Ha ha!

Makes sense now! Glad someone posted that link!

I love these threads!

[Phentex]

12. I ate a chocolate muffin which was really a cupcake with no icing...

still good.

[shenmue]

13. Yum!

[lastlib]

16. So WTH is "Sweetest Day"???

I've never seen an explanation of its purpose or history.....

My newspaper carrier must've celebrated National Newspaper Carrier Day by NOT delivering my newspaper! . For a news junkie like me, that calls for a visit from Guido an' his boyz..... .

[In_The_Wind]

17. It's a day that will cause diabetics to sigh in frustration.

The first Sweetest Day was pronounced as October 8, 1921 in Cleveland. The Cleveland Plain Dealer's October 8, 1922 edition, which chronicles the first Sweetest Day in Cleveland, states that the first Sweetest Day was planned by a committee of 12 confectioners chaired by candy maker C. C. Hartzell. The Sweetest Day in the Year Committee distributed over 20,000 boxes of candy to "newsboys, orphans, old folks, and the poor" in Cleveland, Ohio. The Sweetest Day in the Year Committee was assisted in the distribution of candy by some of the biggest movie stars of the day including Theda Bara and Ann Pennington.
There were also several attempts to start a "Sweetest Day" in New York City, including a declaration of a Candy Day throughout the United States by candy manufacturers on October 8, 1922. In 1927, The New York Times reported that "the powers that determine the nomenclature of the weeks of October" decreed that the week beginning on October 10, 1927 would be known as Sweetest Week. On September 25, 1937, The New York Times reported under Advertising News and Notes that The National Confectioners Association had launched a "movement throughout the candy industry" to rank Sweetest Day with the nationally accepted Mother's Day, Father's Day, and St. Valentine's Day. In 1940, another Sweetest Day was proclaimed on October 19. The promotional event was marked by the distribution of more than 10,000 boxes of candy by the Sweetest Day Committee. The candy was distributed among 26 local charities. 225 children were given candy in the chapel at the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children on October 17, 1940.[6] 600 boxes of candy were also delivered to the presidents of the Jewish, Protestant and Catholic Big Sister groups of New York.


Celebration

Friends, family, and lovers often give each other candy, flowers, and cards on Sweetest Day. Like Valentine's Day, the Sweetest Day is associated with heart-shaped boxes, and 80% of Hallmark's greeting cards designed for Sweetest Day are romantic.

Shame on your newspaper delivery person. That's not gonna go well on tip_the_carrier_day.