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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDaily Holidays - May 12
National Nutty Fudge Day is a day you dont want to miss if you have a sweet tooth! The earliest recorded evidence of fudge dates back to a letter written in 1886 by Emelyn Battersby Hartridge of Vasser College in Baltimore, USA. Other stories include a college lecturer in Virginia who was teaching toffee making but the temperature wasnt high enough, resulting in fudge. Another story is that fudge was accidentally invented when a baker was trying to make caramel. The invention of fudge may have been an accident but the subsequent eating of it certainly isnt! https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nutty-fudge-day/International Nurses Day Ever the underdog, nurses play a key role in all of our medical institutions, being responsible for the welfare, safety and recovery of patients. Nurses have an enormous amount of knowledge and many diverse skills they spend years perfecting and developing, all the time working in decidedly tough environments where extreme stress is just a part of the job. Nurses help bring new life into the world, care tirelessly for the sick and injured, and sometimes watch the patients they did everything to save pass away despite their best efforts. On many occasions, it was a vigilant nurse who noticed a mistake in a doctors prescription in time to save someones life. Acknowledge the hard work, long hours, and emotional duress that are part of the life of every nurse on International Nurses Day. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/international-nurses-day/
Limerick Day Named for the Irish city of Limerick, this much loved verse form was popularised by Edward Lear (not invented alas, but popularise didnt scan ) and could date back as much as five hundred years. Its distinctive metre and AABBA rhyming scheme lend themselves well to nonsense verse, and so Limericks are often childish or obscene. The best ones tend to be both. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/limerick-day/
Odometer Day The odometer; the history of your car is recorded in this little counter. All those journeys youve taken for leisure, for pleasure, alone or with friends. Odometer Day celebrates the invention of the odometer which was invented by William Clayton in 1847. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/odometer-day/
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Daily Holidays - May 12 (Original Post)
Sherman A1
May 2016
OP
Botany
(70,674 posts)1. A fun loving man from Nantucket ......
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)2. Who went down a well in a bucket......
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)3. He came back as Jane
Never was the same,
That fun loving young man with the bucket!
Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)4. Childish and obscene...
right at home in the Lounge.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)5. Oh, my......
I better check the odometer......
meow2u3
(24,779 posts)6. An obligatory shout-out for my sister
She's a hospice nurse. Happy Nurses Day to you, sister of meow2u3.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)7. Happy Birthday to your sister
and to me too!
meow2u3
(24,779 posts)8. Only my sister's birthday is in February
Happy birthday to you!
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)11. OOps sorry about that!
Should have read your post more closely! Happy Nurses Day to your sister!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)9. Happy Nurses Day to our DU nurses!
Wolf Frankula
(3,605 posts)10. Perhaps The First Known Limerick
And let me the canakin clink,
And let me the canakin clink.
A life's but a span,
A soldier's a man,
Why then let a soldier drink.
Iago's song from Othello
William Shakspere.
Wolf
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)12. Happy Nurses Day
My grandmother was a nurse. You have to be pretty awesome to be a nurse. It is a hard job.