Dingus Day

One of the most bizarre american holidays is about a month away now: Easter. Unless you're a church-going christian, or you have kids, easter means nothing to you. Doesn't mean anything to me either; just another long weekend that us retail workers don't get to enjoy.

So, in the spirit of International Chocolate Day, I'm scratching Easter and making a motion to celebrate a new (and actual!) holiday: Dingus Day!!!! This will occur on easter monday, april 9th of this Year of the Scorpion. This notion owes its entirety to dear Michal, who mentioned it to me in a previous post. Anyway, I'm sort of taking the idea of Dingus Day and making it into something new and amazing, so if you're offended...uh, sorry?

Dingus Day, the real one, is celebrated in Poland and the -slovaks. It makes as much sense as Easter does; ie, none at all. It consists of boys dousing girls with water, and girls whipping boys with ribbon whips. Or vice versa. It's sort of disintegrated in modern times into people dousing other people with water, and the whipping has sorta been fazed out.

So our Dingus Day, the new and improved "Easter", is a celebration of water, whips, and life in general. There are a few rules: 1) no buckets or hoses, since those are geographically limiting; 2) Dingus Day applies to all locations, inside and out, so "i'm at work" is no excuse; 3) any whippings can not be actually physically damaging.

I'm thinking about making some Dingus Day t-shirts. Pretty exciting. So remember: CELEBRATE DINGUS DAY!!