It is not a well-known holiday, but January 17 is Yellow Pig Day. You may be asking, "What's a yellow pig?" Well, a yellow pig is a pig that is yellow and it has seventeen toes, seventeen teeth, seventeen eyelashes, and if you asked how many of anything it had, the answer would be seventeen. Do yellow pigs truly exist? No, they don't. Here are the top five facts about Yellow Pig Day.
Yellow Pig Day Was Created in the 1960s.
It is uncertain whether Yellow Pig Day was created at a school or at a bar. However, it is known that two graduate students, Michael Spivack and David C Kelly, came up with the idea while enrolled at Princeton (17).
Seventeen is Significant
Obviously, seventeen is significant since the yellow pig always has seventeen whatever limb or body part is mentioned. The reason that seventeen is so important is that Spivack and Kelly were given the instructions to list properties of the number seventeen. Being that they had to do this, they either got creative while doing this or silly while at a bar. The yellow pig became important as it was a fictional important characteristic of the number seventeen (Yellow Pig Day).
Yellow Pigs Are Prominent on July 17
Since the number seventeen was being studied, it makes sense that yellow pig day would fall on the 17th day of a month. Why the month of July was chosen is not known. All that is known is that July is the month it was assigned. Perhaps the creators were working during July. Perhaps they wanted the holiday to fall during the summer (Yellow Pig Day).
Yellow Pigs Hide in Textbooks
Mike Spivack has become a famous author of textbooks. In each textbook, he likes to hide a "yellow pig." These yellow pigs are not pictures of yellow pigs. Instead, you have to be clever to find them. In one book, either it or a part of it is dedicated to a Chinese policeman. Chinese are often known as "yellow" and policemen are often known as "pigs." Therefore, a Chinese policeman is a yellow pig (17).
Yellow Pig Day Has Carols
As silly as it might seem,Yellow Pig Day even has carols. The carols are usually parodies of well-known songs. A list of the carols can be found at Yellowpigs.net. This way, anybody that wants to celebrate Yellow Pig Day can easily celebrate by singing Yellow Pig Carols (Induction).
Sources:
17 (Seventeen) and Yellow Pigs. (n.d.). Vincent Lefèvre - Page d'accueil. Retrieved July 5, 2012, from http://www.vinc17.org/yp17/index.en.htm
lnduction. (n.d.). YP_songs. Home of the Yellow Pig Priestess. Retrieved July 5, 2012, from http://www.yellowpigs.net/yellowpigs/YP_songs
Yellow Pig Day. (n.d.). Free Online Invitations and Party Planning with Punchbowl. Retrieved July 5, 2012, from http://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/yellow-pig-day
Yellow Pig Day. (n.d.). What the Heck Holiadys. Retrieved July 5, 2012, from http://whattheheckholidays.wetpaint.com/page/Yellow+Pig+Day
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