Car Insurance First Issued February 1, 1898:
Travelers Insurance Company issued the first car insurance policy. It insured a car against accidents with horses.
Tip for Dull Men’s Club Meetings:
Ask to bring expired insurance policies to your meetings. Sit in a circle, go around the room reading the clauses.
International Boost Self-Esteem Month
A month to focus on the importance of nurturing and cultivating self-esteem to beat the winter blahs, to boost morale, and to inspire yourself and others to seize new challenges. For info: Valla Dana Fotiades, M.Ed., PO Box 812, West Side Station, Worcester MA 01602-0812, (508) 799-9860, eb1valla@aol.com.
Caution to Dull Men: Don’t get too carried away here. Remember, "It’s Okay to be Dull."
International Embroidery Month
This one keeps us in stitches. It’s a month set aside to promote commercial monogramming and embroidery and heighten apparel consumers’ awareness of the role that this industry pays in fashion, home furnishing, advertising, and sports around the world. For info: Ken Parsons, Editor, Stitches Magazine, Kenneth_Parsons@intertec.com.
Library Lovers’ Month
Celebration of libraries of all types. A time for everyone, especially library support groups, to recognize the value of libraries and to work to assure that the nation’s libraries will continue to serve. Web site: www.librarysupport.net/librarylovers/.
Tip for Dull Men’s Club Meetings: Invite a librarian to come to one of your meetings to lecture on the Dewey Decimal System.
National Children’s Dental Health Month
To increase dental awareness and stress the importance of regular dental care. American Dental Association. Click this link www.ada.org to visit their web site.
Reminder to Dull Men: Remember the joy of flossing.
Return Shopping Carts to Supermarkets Month
An opportunity to return shopping carts, as well as milk crates, bread trays, and ice cream baskets to supermarkets. This will curtail the need to increase food prices because of these missing items. Sponsor: Illinois Food Retailers Association, Anthony A. Dinolfo, Grocer-Retired, 163 Fairfield Drive, New Lenox, Illinois 60451-3523, (815) 463-9136
Income Tax Birthday
February 3, 1913:
The 16th amendment was ratified, granting Congress the authority to levy taxes income. According to all reports, this was a Dull Day indeed – no dancing in the streets, no church bells ringing throughout the land.
Tip for Dull Men’s Club Meetings: Invite a representative from the Internal Revenue Service to attend one of your meetings. Ask him to present to you their lecture on the "History of Form 1040". It includes an explanation of how the form got its name.
Thomas Edison Birth Anniversary
February 11, 1847:
Tom was born. Tom was the author of a favorite slogan of Dull Men, "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration."
Leap Year Day
February 29: We add one day to bring our calendars more nearly into accord with the seasons. Dull like to be in accord.
Civic duty for dull men:
Look out for signs that advertise services available 365 days a year. Correct them for 2004. They either need to say they are open 366 days this year; or say which one of the 366 days they will be closed.
Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane
February 18: Anniversary of the day in 1930 when Elm Farm Ollie because the first cow to fly in an airplane. During the flight, which was attended by reporters, she was milked and the milk was sealed in paper containers and parachuted over St. Louis. We don't celebrate this. Cows are supposed to be content, much like dull men. To make a cow go through this — a spectacle — was not right.
Carnival
February 23-24: Festivities, feats, foolishness, and gaiety. Definitely not for dull men.
Fasching
February 23-24: This is only Carnival in another name, the name used in Germany and Austria. "Fashing" means "Feast of Fools." Dull men are not fools.
Mardi Gras
February 24: New Orleans' version of Carnival and Fasching.
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