Egg Day
Jouni Filip Maho
googled, I now know that the whole of June is referred to as the "Dairy
Month". Other months seem to have other nicknames. Most of the sites I
clicked to seem to be about "fun for kids", or the like.
Anyway, where does this originate? Some children's book? Fables? Ancient
mythologies? Any pointers would highly welcome.
---
jouni maho
Tony Cooper
You're speaking of the US? If so, it's just politics. An industry -
like the dairy industry - will get the Senator from the state with a
concentration of that industry to introduce a declaration on the
Senate floor to make June (or whatever) to be National Diary Month.
The industry will then have some sort of program to promote the use of
diary products during that month.
Lesser industries and special interest groups will get a National
(whatever) Week or a National (whatever) Day. I googled "National *
Day" and turned up:
National Mole Day
Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole
Day commemorates Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10^23), which is a basic
measuring unit in chemistry. Mole Day was created as a way to foster
interest in chemistry. Schools throughout the United States and around
the world celebrate Mole Day with various activities related to
chemistry and/or moles.
For a given molecule, one mole is a mass (in grams) whose number is
equal to the atomic mass of the molecule. For example, the water
molecule has an atomic mass of 18, therefore one mole of water weighs
18 grams. An atom of neon has an atomic mass of 20, therefore one mole
of neon weighs 20 grams. In general, one mole of any substance
contains Avogadro's Number of molecules or atoms of that substance.
This relationship was first discovered by Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1858)
and he received credit for this after his death.
John Hatpin
>You're speaking of the US? If so, it's just politics. An industry -
>like the dairy industry - will get the Senator from the state with a
>concentration of that industry to introduce a declaration on the
>Senate floor to make June (or whatever) to be National Diary Month.
>The industry will then have some sort of program to promote the use of
>diary products during that month.
June 1st (St Mabel's day; Full Moon)
Bought some milk. Used it in my coffee, and also in a cup of tea.
Ate a piece of cheese and had a yoghurt for lunch. In the afternoon,
bought some pencils, they being diary products. Omelette for tea.
National Diary Month (sponsored by the dairy industry) is going to be
fun.
--
John H
Yorkshire, England
Maria Conlon
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:36:37 +0200, Jouni Filip Maho
> <jouni...@africanRE.guMO.seVE> wrote:
>
>> Apparently, June 3rd is (by some) referred to as Egg Day. Having
>> googled, I now know that the whole of June is referred to as the
>> "Dairy Month". Other months seem to have other nicknames. Most of
>> the sites I clicked to seem to be about "fun for kids", or the
like.
>>
>> Anyway, where does this originate? Some children's book? Fables?
>> Ancient mythologies? Any pointers would highly welcome.
>>
>
> You're speaking of the US? If so, it's just politics. An
industry -
> like the dairy industry - will get the Senator from the state with
a
> concentration of that industry to introduce a declaration on the
> Senate floor to make June (or whatever) to be National Diary
Month.
> The industry will then have some sort of program to promote the
use of
> diary products during that month.
I cannot resist. Five-year diaries? One-year? Should we discontinue
the "Dear Diary" routine at the end of June (or whatever)?
Btw, I want the kind of diary that has a lock and key.
(Yes, I know you spelled it right the first time.)
--
Maria Conlon
If all is not lost, where is it?
Laura F Spira
Back in the 1970s, I remember that our milkman used to sell a Dairy
Diary every year, produced by the Milk Marketing Board. Googling reveals
that this publication continued as recently as 1992
(http://website.lineone.net/~wallyed/milkad7.html for those who are
interested in a study of advertising on milk bottles)
--
Laura
(emulate St. George for email)
Tony Cooper
I liked it better when you ignored me.
Mark Brader
> I googled "National * Day" and ...
Hey, I didn't know about that! Thanks!
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Those who cannot Google the past are destined
m...@vex.net to repost it." -- Huey Callison
Maria Conlon
> I liked it better when you ignored me.
Gee, so did I. I'll have to get back on track, eh?
--
Maria Conlon
"Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be
fruitful and multiply.' But not in those words." -- Woody Allen
Charles Riggs
<nos...@brookview.karoo.co.uk> wrote:
>June 1st (St Mabel's day; Full Moon)
>
>Bought some milk. Used it in my coffee, and also in a cup of tea.
>Ate a piece of cheese and had a yoghurt for lunch. In the afternoon,
>bought some pencils, they being diary products. Omelette for tea.
All excellent ideas, but one. I've never understood some people's
fondness for milk in their tea. To me, milk ruins good tea. Coffee:
milk for sure. But, except for a load of sugar, I want my tea pure.
>National Diary Month (sponsored by the dairy industry) is going to be
>fun.
Can we start early?
--
Charles Riggs
My email address: chriggs/at/eircom/dot/net
Jouni Filip Maho
>
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:36:37 +0200, Jouni Filip Maho
> <jouni...@africanRE.guMO.seVE> wrote:
>
> >Apparently, June 3rd is (by some) referred to as Egg Day. Having
> >googled, I now know that the whole of June is referred to as the "Dairy
> >Month". Other months seem to have other nicknames. Most of the sites I
> >clicked to seem to be about "fun for kids", or the like.
> >
> >Anyway, where does this originate? Some children's book? Fables? Ancient
> >mythologies? Any pointers would highly welcome.
> >
>
> You're speaking of the US?
I don't know!
But reading the rest of your informative reply, I guess you're right.
Having googled I got the impression that Egg Day, Milk Day, and
whatever, was a huge popular movement, part of an ancient cultural
ritual. As usual, I guess I was wrong.
Be that as it may, June 3rd is my birthday, which is the reason I even
was wondering.
---
jouni maho
Jouni Filip Maho
>
> Coffee: milk for sure.
I prefer cream, or better yet, a lump of vanilla ice cream.
---
jouni maho
Jouni Filip Maho
>
> Tony Cooper writes:
> > I googled "National * Day" and ...
>
> Hey, I didn't know about that! Thanks!
I gogoled that. There's a lot of National Days around, such as National
Secretary Day on April 25, National DNA Day on April 30, and National
Blonde Day on June 30 (how does that fit in with June being the "Dairy Month"?).
Today is apparently National Alcohol Screening Day (or was that just
2002?).
---
jouni maho
Demetrius Zeluff
news:407876F6...@africanRE.guMO.seVE:
The 'Egg Marketing Board', or similar.
--
Kill-filers:
My screen name changes,
My email address doesn't.
Gwilym Calon
news:284i70lvamekrgvt5...@4ax.com...
> I've never understood some people's
> fondness for milk in their tea. To me, milk ruins good tea. Coffee:
> milk for sure. But, except for a load of sugar, I want my tea pure.
Milk is the ruination of good coffee. Fact.
> >National Diary Month (sponsored by the dairy industry) is going to be
> >fun.
I seem to recall that "1066 and all that" states that "John Evelyn kept a
dairy". I can't find my copy just now to check, maybe later when I've drunk my
coffee (sans milk).
-------
GC
Charles Riggs
Then I'm eight days younger than you, if we were born in the same
year. No-one fully appreciates us Geminis, you know, not that that
upsets most of us overly much.
Steve Hayes
Not a good month to have it, since Orthodox Christians will be fasting from
dairy food and eggs the whole month, or at least until the 29th.
--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
Evan Kirshenbaum
> Lesser industries and special interest groups will get a National
> (whatever) Week or a National (whatever) Day. I googled "National *
> Day" and turned up:
Okay, when did *that* become possible? It doesn't even seem to show
up in their help pages. I did, however, note one unfamiliar (to me)
operator that will be very helpful for searches here. If you put ".."
between two numbers, you search on the whole range. So "1940..1949"
can be used to find pages that not only have other search terms
mentioned, but which also mention one of the years in that range.
--
Evan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------
HP Laboratories |Bullwinkle: You sure that's the
1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 | only way?
Palo Alto, CA 94304 |Rocky: Well, if you're going to be
| a hero, you've got to do
kirsh...@hpl.hp.com | stupid things every once in
(650)857-7572 | a while.
Tony Cooper
<kirsh...@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>Tony Cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> Lesser industries and special interest groups will get a National
>> (whatever) Week or a National (whatever) Day. I googled "National *
>> Day" and turned up:
>
>Okay, when did *that* become possible? It doesn't even seem to show
>up in their help pages. I did, however, note one unfamiliar (to me)
>operator that will be very helpful for searches here. If you put ".."
>between two numbers, you search on the whole range. So "1940..1949"
>can be used to find pages that not only have other search terms
>mentioned, but which also mention one of the years in that range.
I dunno, Evan. I've always used the asterisk as a wild card in a
search. Maybe it doesn't work, but it did turn up several National
(whatever) Days. Didn't hurt. I guess I'm just carrying-over a habit
from the Altavista days. I think Dogpile supported the asterisk wild
card.
Ben Zimmer
>
> Tony Cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > Lesser industries and special interest groups will get a National
> > (whatever) Week or a National (whatever) Day. I googled "National *
> > Day" and turned up:
>
> Okay, when did *that* become possible? It doesn't even seem to show
> up in their help pages.
I've been doing Google searches with asterisks for quite some time now
(comes in handy with the harder SDC questions!). Don't know how long
the asterisk has been a search operator, but here's an example where I
used it (for an alt.folklore.urban thread) in 10/02:
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3DBA040C...@midway.uchicago.edu
> I did, however, note one unfamiliar (to me)
> operator that will be very helpful for searches here. If you put ".."
> between two numbers, you search on the whole range. So "1940..1949"
> can be used to find pages that not only have other search terms
> mentioned, but which also mention one of the years in that range.
That's a good one! I'll have to keep it in mind.
Raymond S. Wise
news:wu4lvm...@hpl.hp.com...
> Tony Cooper <tony_co...@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > Lesser industries and special interest groups will get a National
> > (whatever) Week or a National (whatever) Day. I googled "National *
> > Day" and turned up:
>
> Okay, when did *that* become possible? It doesn't even seem to show
> up in their help pages. I did, however, note one unfamiliar (to me)
> operator that will be very helpful for searches here. If you put ".."
> between two numbers, you search on the whole range. So "1940..1949"
> can be used to find pages that not only have other search terms
> mentioned, but which also mention one of the years in that range.
I discovered the following in the last few days:
Go to Google's "Language Tools" page at
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
Copy the following to the "Translate text" box and translate from English to
French:
one two three four five ?six? ?seven? ?eight? ?nine? ?ten?
The translation comes out as
un?six deux trois quatre cinq?
Then translate the original text from English to Spanish:
The result is
¿un?six dos tres cuatro cinco? ¿?seven? ¿?eight? ¿?nine? ¿?ten?
Then do the same using
one two three four five !six! !seven! !eight! !nine! !ten!
The result from translating into French is
un!six deux trois quatre cinq!
and from translating into Spanish is
¡un!six dos tres cuatro cinco! ¡!seven! ¡!eight! ¡!nine! ¡!ten!
The same thing using
one two three four five .six. .seven. .eight. .nine. .ten.
yields, for the French translation
un six deux trois quatre cinq. seven. eight. nine. ten.
and for the Spanish translation
un six dos tres cuatro cinco. seven. eight. nine. ten.
So what is going on here?
--
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com