I know, you lot are already a few steps ahead of me. You've rented or bought the necessary DVD collection, you've prepared your costume, you've stuffed your duck.
Because tomorrow it is...
DUCK SOUP DAY!
What, you'd forgotten? How is that possible?
Duck Soup Day comes around every November 17th. It marks the anniversary of the original release of DUCK SOUP, the Marx brothers' classic from 1933.
How shall we celebrate? Usually I eat duck in some form (even though duck soup plays no part in the movie whatsoever), I watch a Marx Brothers movie and I spend the whole day acting just a bit sillier than normal.
Also, I greet people with a hearty 'Hail Freedonia'.
So celebrate Duck Soup Day with me, wherever you may be.
It's almost a religion now.
Oh, by the way, the 11 movies I saw in the cinema between March '08 and April '09 were:
Valkyrie
Gran Torino
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Dark Knight
Madagascar 2
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Burn After Reading
Hancock
Quantum of Solace
Wall-E
Indiana Jones and the big pile of rubbish
And you could have guessed at least half of those by checking the top 11 films at the UK box office for the same period, which were:
Mamma Mia
Quantum of Solace
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the big pile of rubbish
Sex and the City
Hancock
Wall-E
High Schol Musical 3
Madagascar 2
Kung Fu Panda
Iron Man
But nobody did that, so I will keep my very small prize to myself. I will eat it on DUCK SOUP DAY!
3 comments:
But what prize are you giving yourself?
I am so pleased to know it is "Duck Soup Day!" I will behave accordingly.
Thanks for spreading the word everyone! In a couple of years, Duck Soup Day will be HUGE.
In the meantime, I have awarded myself the prize of extra blueberries on my breakfast.
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