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Dingaling Day

 One for the weirdos, losers, Sunday drivers etc.
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Ever notice that some days there seems to be a greater than normal concentration of weird or inexplicable or just plain dumb things being done by people, animals, drivers and the like wherever you go?

Well, now they have their very own day! Subtle bulletins, advertising directly to the social demographics most likely to produce dingalings will run for the few days preceding in newspapers, radio and television. Public annoucements will warn the rest of us to just stay inside and do nothing for a whole day every so often.

It would be timed to coincide with every 4th full moon. This should flush them all out in one go so they can do whatever it is that distinguishes them as the real item, and get it out of their collective system for a few months.

—UnaBubba, Sep 08 2001

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       make that a full moon   

       is it possible to actually label these loons so that we can see them coming, also their cars, vans, bikes and supermarket trolleys. stop them using public transport altogether.
—po, Sep 08 2001
   

       This would work! The adverts would run, "UFO flyover predicted for Sunday the 18th" and "Govt to hand out surplus half-brains on the 18th--if you've only half a brain, get a second half and complete your set" and so forth. "On Sunday all air outdoors will be absolutely free!"
—Dog Ed, Sep 08 2001
   

       A toy store in the local mall has big inflatable toys up front, and someone stuck a sign on them reading 'FREE AIR. Ask at register'.   

       I did, just to see...
—StarChaser, Sep 09 2001
   

       I've long referred to days described as:
"Must be a Free Day"
...as if one wouldn't be fined for erratic driving, etc.
—thumbwax, Sep 09 2001
   

       Saturday, I was cut off three times in 20 mins on a relatively uncrowded freeway, accosted by a drug-crazed beggar at a restaurant during lunch, had a 1/2 litre tub of hot chili sauce poured over me by a rampaging brat during the same meal and was run down by a fat woman pushing a stroller full of groceries... Dingaling Day!
—UnaBubba, Sep 09 2001
   

       But every day is Dingaling Day.
—snarfyguy, Sep 09 2001
   

       Action movie heroes have these all the time. Especially if they look like Bruce Willis.
—mrkillboy, Sep 10 2001
   

       I thought this was going to be a saucy, nudge-nudge, wink-wink reference to the classic Max Bygraves song - "My dingaling, my dingaling, / I want to play with my dingaling" - perhaps a holiday in celebration of penis euphemisms... or something more sordid.   

       Thank goodness it's not.
—Guy Fox, Sep 10 2001
   

       A few years ago I drove out to get some food (Brady's Fish and Chips in Wandsworth - very good) and during the 10 minute drive I saw 3 collisions between other cars. Scary.
—hippo, Sep 10 2001
   

       GF, I think it might have been a Chuck Berry song.
—UnaBubba, Sep 10 2001
   

       This would also be great for the "not-so-weird", the people who are too inhibited / considerate to act weird, but sometimes wish they could. Gives a chance to purge your system of that weirdness now and again. Like, intentionally walking through puddles and splashing as much as you can. (Don't you ever wish you could?) Or wearing your bright orange cords to work. You get the idea.
—herilane, Dec 08 2002
   

       po - take the loons off the busses and the bus companies would be bankrupt within weeks.
—greennightmonkey, Apr 10 2003
   


 

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