odditudes-and-weirdities

Holidays today cover topics like summer leisure activities, getting a larger-than-equal share of something, hammocks, the Pied Piper legend, a variety of slips of the tongue, penuche, and the number pi: Hammock Day Lion's Share Day National Penuche Day Pi Approximation Day Ratcatcher's Day Spoonerism Day Summer Leisure Day Ratcatcher's Day relates to the legend of the  Pied Piper of Hamelin . Today's holiday corresponds to the date for the Pied Piper given in a  Robert Browning  poem; another version of the holiday is celebrated on June 26, which corresponds to the date for the Pied Piper given in a  Brothers Grimm  story. Summer Leisure Day may not be as leisurely as the name implies; it advocates for engaging in forms of play more than resting. (Don't expect to use that hammock.) Spoonerisms are slips of the tongue like "tips of the slongue" ... if "slongue" was a word. Basically you switch the consonant sounds of nearby words. A common approxi...