The great thing about America is that anybody can decide that any random day is a ‘world-somthing-or-other-day’. Official recognition from the powers that be aside, you can register a url, spread the word and plan events.
Here are some highlights and one is even today!

• International Talk Like a Pirate Day is today, September 19th. The site has tips on how to talk like a pirate in English and German, how to pick up pirates for both men and women and and English to Pirate translator for those who wish to participate.
• World Jump Day was July 20th, 2006. The plan was to have everyone in the world jump at the exact same time, just to see what would happen. I bet it would have caused global warming somehow. Since I didn’t participate I guess I’ve done my part to combat the problem.
• World Vegan Day is November 1st. I checked, you don’t get to eat vegans. Just the opposite. You’re supposed to eat, get this, plants, only plants.? No milk, eggs or cheese either. Sounds like a bunch of hippies to me.
• World Sousveillance Day, which may now be part of World Equiveillance Week celebrated in January of 2006, sought to bring awareness to the surveillance of public life by building owners, police and whoever else may be recording the goings on. They seek to equal things by…taking pictures of the cameras. They’re ‘watching the watchers’. Right.
• World Juggling Day was back in June. I’m dissapointed that once again both the blind and those without arms were under represented. It just sickens me to see such hatred in 2006.
• World Tuberculosis Day was presented by the World Health Organization and was one of those raise awareness lets see if we can get Bono to guilt American’s into sending money type things. Unfortunatly the key-note address could not be heard over the constant coughing of the crowd.
• World Leprosy Day looks to do what all the others do, only they have a much cooler disease. What do you say to someone with Leprosy? “So…leprosy huh? Um…that’s catchy, right?”

Let’s go out with a bang….

• World Rat Day is just what it sounds like, though it does limit itself to the ‘Fancy Rat’ that is sold in pet stores. I can see how it’d be a tougher sell, but they should consider including the more common rat as well. Sure they spread disease and are terribly ugly, they had a pretty big role in shaping the world as it is today.