Who invents 'National.........week' ? (e.g. Chip/Salt Awareness/Yorkshire Pudding/Baking/Cheese...

[katie1997]

...Sausage, Leek Appreciation, Cauliflower, Chilli, Chocolate, Running, Cycling, Mustard....who chooses the dates for these? Is there some sort of National Committee? Not that I'm complaining....

[Ladymuck]

Gawd knows!;-)

[womanofdulwich]

I am sure it all comes from across the Atlantic................

[????]

I do. PM me with what you want for next week.

[Brendan]

Whomsoever so chooses I think. I could for instance declare myself the custodian of all things ?National Week? related and declare next week National National Week week.

If of course I was want to do such things which I am not as this week is Humphrey.

[????]

Sorry, next week is actually cabbage. I've a slot the week after.

[Brendan]

Do you remember Bristol?

That was a good week.

[????]

Too early for a repeat?

[katie1997]

???? Wrote:

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> Sorry, next week is actually cabbage. I've a slot

> the week after.

ooh excellent, looking forward to cabbage week.

..got any space for mashed potato the following week? Thanks so much.

[giggirl]

PR departments

[Brendan]

I think PR departments is sometime in June.

[RosieH]

what giggirl said - PR people - "shit, we've got to do PR for watercress, what to do?" a week, a day, a fortnight, on very rare occasion, a month.

I may, on occasion, have created a day myself.

[????]

Yeah...thanks for Beetroot day Rosie

[RosieH]

God, I wish. wasn't me - but National Constipation Day might have been...

[????]

How long did that go on for?

[RosieH]

Well now - I set it up 8 years ago and as far as I know it's still going on. Was hoping that Prunes For Jesus Day would put an end to it, but turns out that religious miracles do happen, and our lord, feeling for the flatulent, rendered them just another innocuous delicious dried fruit stuff.

[brum]

National Balti week should put an end to it......

[northlondoner]

I vote for a national pr company week

[katie1997]

Yes good idea - and I vote for National Sourdough Week the week after (schedule permitting and all that..)

[giggirl]

Bless me father for I have sinned - I used to be a PR and I made shit up all of the time. Come to think of it, I think that was my job description; "make shit up". National prune (or whatever) day was a good wheeze. Another trick that gave good coverage was to conduct a survey. Of course the survey consisted of either (a) a straw poll of those in the office with whom I could communicate without actually leaving my desk; or (b) the old fall-back method of just making shit up. After the "survey results" were carefully compiled I'd bang out a press release that said something like "95% of new bands are males under the age of 75" or "83% of CD buyers are male under the age of 25". What a waste of time. I'm terribly sorry.