what about july 5th?

i've done a lot, well, most, of my christmas shopping online. and a really cool site to look at is http://www.thinkgeek.com/index.shtml.

while i was there looking around, i saw a calendar which i just could not resist. it's the 2008 demotivators calendar. it's funny, and tongue-in-cheek (at least, i think it is), and has some really interesting tidbits (mostly computer or sci-fi) written on some of the days.

for example: "september 6 -- a computer error causes over 40,000 parisians with minor traffic violations to receive letters charging them with murder, extortion and other serious offenses (1989)" i don't know for sure they aren't making that up, but it's pretty funny regardless.

and then: "november 9 -- patent issued for 'apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force', which lets a pregnant woman be strapped to a circular table and spun to induce birth (1965)". hahahahahaha.......are they serious? hahahaha -- that's just hilarious!

for moments of brilliant levity, buy it.