Daily Holidays -January 3

[Sherman A1]

Chocolate Covered Cherry Day "Easy, delicious cherries. Just like you buy in the box! It's best to let the candies ripen for 1 to 2 weeks." http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-covered-cherries-2/


Drinking Straw Day Now that the holiday craze has come to a close and everyone has rang in the New Year, it’s time to celebrate the real main event in January: the 125th anniversary of the drinking straw patent! Thanks to Marvin Stone, the drinking straw was patented on January 3rd, 1888.

Where would we be without the drinking straw? Drinking our ice cold beverages straight from the glass like cave men?! You may not think about it often, but most people probably encounter or use a drinking straw at least once every day. Straws directly influence how we enjoy our beverages whether at a restaurant, in the movie theater, or from a crazy cup while lounging at a tropical resort.

- See more at: http://www.qualitylogoproducts.com/blog/national-drinking-straw-day-125-years/#sthash.2kCbN3zh.dpuf


Fruitcake Toss Day At last, the answer to that age-old question: How do I get rid of this *$&*@#! fruitcake?

People in Manitou Springs have found the answer. Throw it as far as you can, by any means that you can, and hope it’s never found again. You can come watch this amazing event for free (however, contestants pay a small fee or donate a can of non-perishable food to enter the events).

To be fair, separate prizes are given to numerous special tossing divisions. That is, athletes choosing to toss their fruitcakes by hand are not competing directly with those who use a catapult, giant slingshot, or spud gun (or is that a fruitcake gun?). The audience needs to be ever-vigilant for those fruitcakes that end up being tossed straight up in the air by contestants whose timing on the catapult isn’t quite perfect. You know you’re having a bad day when you get hit in the head with a frozen fruitcake falling from hundreds of feet above you. http://www.colorado-for-free.com/FreeThingsToDoColorado/FruitcakeToss.htm

J.R.R. Tolkien Day John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (/ˈtɒlkiːn/ tol-keen;[a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

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[bigwillq]

1. I never use straws

except at a restaurant.

[femmocrat]

2. One of my favorites:

[Phentex]

3. I admit I tossed some sort of cake today...

even though it's the thought that counts, a neighbor dropped off this cake/bread thing a few days before Christmas. When she gave it to me, she said she got it a few days before so it should probably be eaten right away. It looked to me (although I have no proof) that it was a re-gift of sorts. Like something they hand out at the office... in plastic with a ribbon tied around it, not homemade looking.

We opened it and weren't sure what the heck it was. Dark brownish with something in it. It did not smell like fruit cake and it was pretty much hard as a rock. I have no idea why I just left it on the counter until today.