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This goes back to my Freshman-in-College days, at the ripe old age of 17 when I had the misfortune of attending Florida State University. The University had a rather liberal loophole in their classroom attendance policy. Because of PC-itis, someone had decided that students could miss class for religious reasons without question and without penalty.

We couldn't have been very far into the school year, since it was only Sep 9th, but my roommate and I woke up that morning and decided we didn't want to attend classes that day. So we declared it a holiday. We told our Profs we were observing a religious holiday, and they couldn't say boo about it.

For various reasons we decided the holiday was the celebration of the color green. Later we decided that we had discovered the color green on that day. Still later that afternoon, we realized we had also discovered the colors yellow and purple. All this, and there was no alcohol involved.

Discovery of Green (and Yellow and Purple) day became the cornerstone, the main holiday, of our religion -- whatever that was. We never clarified more beyond the main holidays and the Trinity of Ground Beef. Next up is October 10th, which is Remembrance of Discovery of Green (and Yellow and Purple) day; a two-day holiday on December 29th and 30th called Tea Day (there's some schism over this. No one's sure if you're supposed to observe this holiday by abstaining from the beverage Tea, or by consuming it in large quantity. Either way is correct); and March 21st which is Mustard Day, in celebration of a bottle of common yellow mustard that followed another friend from location to location for well over 5 years after its expiration date.

Aren't you glad you asked?