Tomorrow is Yellow Pig Day. It's been celebrated on July 17
since the 1960s. I'm surprised you haven't heard of it! Or, if you attended
Princeton and/or majored in math, maybe you have.
Here's the background. Two math students, Michael Spivak and
David C. Kelly, were given an assignment to analyze the properties of the
number 17. They must have stayed up late, or taken chemical study aids, or
something, because they went a little crazy and decided to invent an imaginary yellow
pig that would have 17 toes, 17 teeth, 17 eyelashes, and so on.
How we moved from there to having it be a holiday is not
answered in my sources (see below). This holiday is to be celebrated by eating
Yellow Pig Cake and singing Yellow Pig Carols.
I have information that the 17th is also, coincidentally,
Peach Ice Cream Day. I supposed Peach and Yellow aren't that far removed on the
color chart, so you could celebrate them together. Put the Peach Ice Cream on
the Yellow Pig Cake?
In case you decide to celebrate, here are some Yellow Pig
Carols: http://www.yellowpigs.net/yellowpigs/YP_songs
If we can have a Yellow Pig Day, we should also have a White
Pig Day. So I hereby declare today, July 16th, White Pig Day. I'm doing so, of
course, in honor of Marshmallow, the pig featured on the cover of my second
mystery, SMOKE.
pig pix are public domain from http://www.clker.com/
Sorry if this is too far off topic. I just get caught up in weird stuff sometimes. This struck me as hysterically funny!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to know. Now I have a reason to buy peach ice cream. But not yellow cake. Wouldn't want to ruin the ice cream.
ReplyDeleteBut that's for tomorrow. Today, in honor of Marshmallow, I'll serve...Rocky Road?
Kathy, that's an excellent idea! I should have thought of it myself. Thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeleteYou are funny, Kaye!
ReplyDeleteHey, I didn't invent Yellow Pig Day, Mary Ann!
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