International Nonsense Day
I woke up this morning and it wasn't yesterday. In fact, it was today and..... as hard to believe as it isn't, another 28 fortnights have passed and International Nonsense Day isn't here again! This time, we're celebrulating our 40th yearaversary!For those of you, surely few in number in these enlightened times, still unaware of IND (or 'ID' as it is known in Gernmany, where they have no word for 'nonsense') - allow me to explain....
The first incarnation of the group was founded in 1973, just after the second incarnation had given up following a pay dispute among its volunteers. Things progressed well for the next few 280-fortnightly cycles. As human beings, such is our innate nonsensicality that as the worlds populamation increased, so did the nonsense levels. Nonsense was spread to the four corners of the logical world.
I hope that you will all celebrate with me tonight in the traditional manner, by drinking a cigar and smoking Blurfanstaw (a drink distilled in a made-up place from a fictional berry).
Just don't get too excited and send me some 'lovey dovey' message after smoking it - the drink is known for its aphrodisiac qualities (only active when smoked) and I, like my father before him, and his father before him, have taken a vow of celibacy.
Please share your nonsense with me here to keep the proud tradition of nonsense alive..... for the children......
Comments (9)
Nonsensical day? hmmm... I guess they celebrate everything else...why not this?!?
I am still waiting for 'Vegemite Day'...the day where a nation stands still to hail an icon that is no longer Australian.
But if Vegemite gets its own day, MARMITE should get a week. Marmite Week! Yes! It has a ring to it, don't you reckon?
Cheeeeeers Abagail... I just don't know if I'm supposed to drink it or light it!
I have always rather adored bees... I was at Mount St Helens (2009) when a friend turned around to find I had climbed into a garden bed and I was on my knees... He was a tad perplexed and asked me what on earth I was doing. I was taking a photo of a bumble bee. We don't have them locally ( Well in Tasmania...but that's a world away
As for the wasp... well, you are almost correct. Not that it was a bin loiterer... but ... hmmmm... even that is open to interpretation. I was sitting have lunch with a couple of friends and the Scottish guy had ordered haggis. That is what attracted the wasps to the table. I thought I was rather clever capturing one in the empty bowl with a napkin, quite forgetting they send out distress signals. So I was responsible for my own dilemma.