Happy October 8
Happy October 8.
In Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, the author, humorist Dave Barry, has a running joke that every important event in American history happened on October 8. (I think October 8 is actually his son’s birthday.) This book came out when I was in high school, and I remember my friends and I — including occasional commenter on this blog FI — reading it aloud and joking about it on our train ride to school. (Yes, we were all a bunch of dorks.)
So, happy anniversary of everything.
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I read that book! There were times I could not stop laughing in the middle of class while we were given time to just read. I annoyed everyone around me.
It’s also how I learned to use footnotes for sarcastic commentary in otherwise serious papers…
Ah, Dave Barry. Brings back fond memories of my youth.
October 8 is the most awesomest date ever in the history of the universe (my b-day, too).