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Huzzah! October 6th is Douglas Jefferson Day – Buy a Stranger a Drink
How do I celebrate Douglas Jefferson Day?
Douglas Jefferson day is celebrated on the first Saturday of October every year. According to tradition, there are only three rules one must follow.
Three rules:
1) Douglas Jefferson Day must be celebrated in a Public House of the District of Columbia, in the company of good friends
2) A gift must be given to a friend. One must not have exchanged money for the gift, and it must be “no larger than a baker’s loaf.*”
3) In the spirit of Douglas Jefferson Day, you must buy a drink for a stranger.*According to diary entries from the time, gifts included “a half-used shaker of salt,” “one dead snail,” “a handful of grass clippings,” and “thirteen flivrums.” What a flivrum is and why anyone would need thirteen of them has been lost to time.
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I hope the CH Day folks will find a way to incoporate this idea …
This guy was Thomas Jefferson’s Roger Clinton or Billy Carter.
Dang, I’m going to Virgin Fest that day!
Despite the fact that I’m 99% certain this is made up, I fully endorse the holiday going forth.
Heck, it’s not like all our other holidays aren’t based on myths.
I can’t see any downside to this holiday–Long Live Douglas Jefferson Day!
This is the only holiday I ever look forward to….
totally stoked for this. DC needs a fun holiday like this.
I can get behind this.
I end up buying drinks for strangers when I’m drunk anyway. Might as well make it official and give a gift while I’m at it. Huzzah!
This has to be the very height of hipster dumbness.
i feel the same way about christmas. hipster beardo dumbness.
So true. Dumb ideas like this show that underemployment really is a problem that affects us all.
Old printing style printed “s” that looked like “f” so I googled “slivrum” but all the results were in German. Anyone read German?
Actually, all those results are from bad OCR on Google Book digitizations of Latin-language books printed in Germany. No such word as slivrum in German either, unfortunately.
Some lucky stranger is getting a drink on me on October 6. #DJD
ill buy you a drink sugar