Apparently, it originated in Spain. You go Spanish nerds. In addition, it falls on the anniversary of the original Star Wars film.
In 2008, Geek Pride Day came to America and in 2009, Canada. So let's rock our nerdiness. Look at your geek responsibilities, people.
A manifesto was created to celebrate the first Geek Pride Day, which included the following list of basic rights and responsibilities of geeks.
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Rights:
Piece of π.
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- The right to be even geekier.
- The right to not leave your house.
- The right to not have a significant other and to be a virgin.
- The right to not like football or any other sport.
- The right to associate with other nerds.
- The right to have few friends (or none at all).
- The right to have all the geeky friends that you want.
- The right to not be "in-style."
- The right to be overweight and have poor eyesight.
- The right to show off your geekiness.
- The right to take over the world.
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Responsibilities:
- Be a geek, no matter what.
- Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
- If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
- Save any and all geeky things you have.
- Do everything you can to show off your geeky stuff as though it were a "museum of geekiness."
- Don't be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
- Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
- Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
Don't waste your time on anything not related to geekdom.
- Befriend any person or persons bearing any physical similarities to comic book or sci-fi figures.
- Try to take over the world!
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***NOTE: There has been dispute about this day being the May 4th. That *is*, in fact, Star Wars Day. This is Geek Pride, so it includes everything from Star Wars to Shakespeare. So whatever you feel geeky about, this is the day it show it!
I also happened to stumble upon this...
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Towel Day
And a Happy one to you my friend...
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Towel Day is celebrated every 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their love for the books and the author. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death on May 11, 2001. The towel is a reference to Adams' popular science fiction comedy series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
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Towel Day - It's for real...
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“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
So there it is people, the Geeks now have their own day - so if you're "that way inclined"...grab your towel, stick out that thumb and hope for the best because you never know when you'll be called on to travel the time-space continuum, visit distant worlds, battle Gleektrons and save the Universe from total annihilation!
Hey...it could happen...
(Grabs his towel and prepares for the worst)
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