Happy Lumberjack Day!
celebrated every September 26th

(Also known as:
Talk Like a Lumberjack Day,
Eat Like a Lumberjack Day,
Attack Wooden Objects Like a Lumberjack Day,
and Today's Awesome Because You Totally Don't Have to Bath But You May Have to Grow a Beard Which Might Be Hard If You Are of the Lady Type Day!)

What is Lumberjack Day?

How do I celebrate this amazing holiday?

 

Lumberjack Day?
(as explained by Colleen AF Venable)

September 19th, International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a day widely celebrated by many and feared with big sharp pointy teeth by many others. Me, I tread the line between amusement and non-celebration, being all eye-patch and no tongue when it comes to the ways of our fine feather-shouldered laddies.

In September 2005, my dear friend Marianne Ways made a joke that she felt it was time to move on, to venture towards other cliché icons. Sure she could have gone the route of ninjas (always a crowd pleaser) or zombies, who seem to be more and more in fashion nowadays that I'm almost worried the day of the REAL zombie apocalypse most people will just be plain bored with them:

    (Year 2057)
    Zombie: BRAAAAAINS
    Trendy Gal: Oh, PLEEEEAZE. That's so 2005. And what the hell are you wearing? I wouldn't be buried alive in that! God! Will you just pry open my skull already and stop drooling all over my shoulder? I've gotta go get my nails done so move it. Move it!

Oh how pleased I was when Ms Marianne instead opted for TALK LIKE A LUMBERJACK DAY, a much under appreciated, though still quite iconic stereotyped profession! It took us no time to declare a date so now I will officially say it here first:

September 26th is now OFFICIAL TALK LIKE A LUMBERJACK DAY!

 

How to Celebrate!

Now, I hear the murmuring out there, and I can't say I blame you. In my excitement to declare the day a holiday I sorta forgot one important detail...er how the hell do lumberjacks talk?

You might think Lumberjacks do not have a specific vernacular. There's no generic "ARG" to put whenever your heart pleases there's no real shortening of words with accompanied scurvy-induced face grimace. No lumberjack jokes end with a "Booty" equivalent. In fact...I'm not even sure if there ARE lumberjack jokes. (we’ll need to fix that)

But there are “eh’s” and “TIMMMBERS” and so so so many other grand ways to celebrate! On pirate day you can only not eat fruit, but on Lumberjack Day you can fill your flannel belly to the limit!

Scott Bateman Knows How to Celebrate!
(click to watch the official Bateman 365 Lumberjack Day Animation that helped start it all)

 

Suggestions for Celebrations!

    *Dress in your best plaid flannel, boots, and suspenders.

    *Bring as many axes as you can carry to work.

    *Go out for pancakes/waffles with all of your friends or dress like a pancake/waffle and lose all of your friends.

    *Make something out of wood (like craft sticks, chopsticks, toothpicks, your neighbor’s cut down dogwood...)

    *Grow a manly beard or glue one on.

    *Say as many eh’s as possible.

    *Knock things over all day yelling TIIIIIIIMBER.

    *Make as many bad wood puns as possible.

    *Learn some real Lumberjack Jargon (oh yes it exists!)

    *Read about the history of lumberjacks over at the lumberjacks love wiki site.

    *Join the U.S. Log Rolling Association

    *Build a tree house.

    *Live the rest of your existence in that tree house.

    *Don’t even come out to watch LOST.

    *Not even if the new episode sounds really really good.

    *Dress in women’s clothing and hang around in bars.

    *You totally saw that last one coming from a mile away didn’t you.

    *Pay for things as if the money is Canadian. Works best if you are in Canada, but is much more funny and illegal if you are not.

    *Wear a George Washington costume (he was totally sorta a lumberjack)

    *Point people towards:
    http://www.lumberjackday.net or
    http://www.lumberjackdaydotcomwastaken.com because robot jerks stole our original intended url, which means word of the holiday is spreading! But that still doesn’t make me not want to kick them in their robotic Tin Pants...

 

Got another suggestion? E-mail “colleen at fluffinbrooklyn dot com.”

 

 

Show Us Your Lumberjack Day Celebrations!

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    P.S. Remember that Lumberjacks are trained professionals and you should make sure to celebrate Lumberjack Day wisely. For instance, always use a designed chainsaw-er, since it’s hard to chop down trees under the influence of a belly full of sweet sweet sweeet maple-y goodness.