Reasons To Celebrate You May Be Unaware Of

Thursday, July 20th.

When did food become junk?  Why inviting an alien to live with you is a good idea, tug-of-war, and lunch with a monkey… what could go wrong?

• Invite an Alien to Live With You Day

  A day celebrating Mork from Ork! Today is Robin Williams’s birthday. “Invite an Alien to Live with You Day” celebrates the TV show that helped launch Robin Williams career, Mork & Mindy. The show aired for four years and an average of 55-60 MILLION people tuned in each week. You can check out some really cool facts on Mork & Mindy on Mentalfloss.com: CLICK HERE

  TV Show Mork and Mindy. Actor Robin Williams and actress Pam Dawber...

  TV Show Mork and Mindy. Actor Robin Williams and actress Pam Dawber shown in scenes from TV show. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

• National Junk Food Day

  Who hasn’t had junk food?  CELEBRATE!  We’ve all had junk food, but the term has only been around since the 50’s.  Junk Food Day is a chance to take notice of what we feed our bodies. More on Junk Food Day HERE.  My son, Jake’s favorite junk food is Doritos, clearly (see pic above)

  A customer pushes a shopping cart down the confectionery aisle inside...

  A customer pushes a shopping cart down the confectionery aisle inside a Spar Group Ltd. supermarket in the Die Wilgers suburb of Pretoria, South Africa, on Thursday, July 14, 2022. A quarterly index... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

• Tug-of-War Tournament Day

  BACK IN MY DAY, we played tug-of-war and we loved it! I always enjoyed Tug-of-War, but it’s also one of my favorite radio experiences. When I was living in Maryland, the station I worked for would host a Tug-of-War. The rope was super long and the tug-of-war took place on opposite shores of a bay! It was amazing!  Also, I got to MC on behalf of one of the opposing sides and talk a bunch of crap on the microphone, so you can imagine how much that made my day. LOL

  

• Take a Monkey to Lunch Day

  While this sounds like an amusing, but bad idea, Take a Monkey to Lunch Day is actually a day to reflect on history, specifically, the teaching of evolution in schools.  This stems all the way back to the 1920’s when the Butler Act was in play.  The Butler Act made it illegal to teach anything in school about evolution or anything that contradicted the creationism of the Bible.  “Take a Monkey to Lunch Day commemorates the Scopes Monkey Trial, where John Thomas Scopes, a science teacher from Dayton, Tennessee, was convicted of teaching evolution in a public school, which violated Tennessee law. The Scopes Trial is one of the most famous trials in US history, and the essential conflict at the heart of the case—the conflict between science and religion—is still hotly debated today.” – Checkiday.com

  Chippy the chimpanzee enjoying an ice treat at Blair Drummond Safari...

  Chippy the chimpanzee enjoying an ice treat at Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park, near Stirling. Britons are set to melt on the hottest UK day on record as temperatures are predicted to hit... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

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