JANUARY 25, 2014 – NATIONAL OPPOSITE DAY – NATIONAL IRISH COFFEE DAY

               NATIONAL OPPOSITE DAY 

Good morning, or is it good night? Hello, or is it goodbye? I am cold, or am I hot?
National Opposite Day, an “unofficial” holiday, is a day to have fun all day long saying exactly opposite of what you really mean. This day has kids rejoicing everywhere. It is also a great day for adults to play along and break out of the winter blues. Maybe we should have dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner!
Most sources say that National Opposite Day is always observed on January 25th while other sources say it is celebrated by some on January 7th. It is also believed to be celebrated by a group of people on the 25th of each month of the year.
NATIONAL OPPOSITE DAY HISTORY
The origin of National Opposite Day is unknown however there are references dating back to President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920′s. In the 1928 election, Coolidge made a statement to the press announcing, “I do not choose to run”. That statement spurned a debate and left everyone wondering if he really meant the opposite.
FUN TIDBIT:
Sponge Bob Square Pants even got into the act, with an episode containing the whimsical nature of this day.
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           NATIONAL IRISH COFFEE DAY

January 25th of each year celebrates National Irish Coffee Day. 

A cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey and sugar or brown sugar, Irish coffee is stirred and then topped with thick cream.  The coffee is typically drunk through the cream.
There are variations of coffee cocktails that pre-date the classic Irish coffee by at least 100 years, the original Irish coffee was invented and also named by Joe Sheridan.  A head chef in the west of Ireland, Sheridan added whiskey to coffee on a winters night to warm a group of American passengers that had disembarked from a Pan Am flying boat in the 1940′s.  He told them it was “Irish Coffee”.
After drinking Irish coffee at Shannon Airport, Stanton Delaplane, a travel writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, brought it back to the United States.  Delaplane worked with the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco where they started serving Irish coffee on November 10, 1952 and worked with the bar owners to recreate the Irish method of floating the cream on top of the coffee.
Los Angeles’, Tom Bergin’s Tavern also claims to have been the originator of Irish Coffee and since the early 1950′s has had a large sign in place reading “House of Irish Coffee”.

For more information, see: http://www.nationalirishcoffeeday.com/

NATIONAL IRISH COFFEE DAY HISTORY
Within our research, we were unable to find the creator of National Irish Coffee Day, an “unofficial” national holiday.
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Other January 25th “Holidays” which are celebrated around the world:

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