It's National National Awareness Month Awareness Month!

February 10, 2008 5:34 PM

What are YOU doing for National National Awareness Month Awareness Month?
posted by patr1ck (23 comments total)

There are so many kinds of cancer! We probably need to break up our calendar into more months.
posted by hermitosis at 5:46 PM on February 10, 2008

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posted by Joe Invisible at 5:49 PM on February 10, 2008 [5 favorites]

Oh, internet holidays, will they ever be relevant?
posted by TwelveTwo at 5:53 PM on February 10, 2008

I'm going to kill myself in 90 days.
posted by spock at 6:01 PM on February 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

What are YOU doing for National National Awareness Month Awareness Month?

Starting my own campaign called "National National Awareness Month Awareness Month Awareness Month."
posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:02 PM on February 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

I'm going to die an agonising death in 180 seconds.
posted by hal9k at 6:03 PM on February 10, 2008

Is it any accident that National National Awareness Month Awareness Month and Black History Month -- that most maligned of National Awareness Months -- are both in the same month? I think not.

I teach high school English to a largely African-American population. When my students ask me if I'm doing anything special for Black history month, I remind them how we've been reading African-American texts throughout the year sofar and it would be kind of ridiculous to confine everything to one month. Then they half of them nod and half of them look at me funny.
posted by HeroZero at 6:05 PM on February 10, 2008 [4 favorites]

I feel terrible at not previously being aware of National National Awareness Month Awareness Month. I will make sure to be aware of my awareness or lack of awareness of it in the future.
posted by clevershark at 6:07 PM on February 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

Wow! I had no idea I had so many children. Thanks, Parenting Awareness Month!

As long as being aware of it means I don't have to do any of it, I am happy to support Math Awareness Month.
posted by Rock Steady at 6:20 PM on February 10, 2008 [2 favorites]

I just started thinking about the game again.
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:35 PM on February 10, 2008 [2 favorites]

National Bath Safety Month? Future civilizations, millenia from now, are not going to look favorably on this culture.
posted by crapmatic at 6:35 PM on February 10, 2008

But if I'm not aware of the process of National Awareness Months, how will this...oh forget it.

Also: I'm giving up "giving things up for Lent" for Lent.
posted by DU at 6:38 PM on February 10, 2008

What's a "month"?
posted by not_on_display at 6:54 PM on February 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

Awareness Months are for causes too wimpy to insist on EDUCATION or KNOWLEDGE Months. Thus contributing to a fiction-based society.

For me, this is WordPress PlugIn and CSS Hack Education Month, and I am getting schooled.
posted by wendell at 6:56 PM on February 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

Dude......wait, what?
posted by louche mustachio at 7:08 PM on February 10, 2008

The only thing I'm aware of in February is how f'ing cold it is outside.
posted by pwally at 7:12 PM on February 10, 2008

I won't be doing anything. I'm waiting for International National Awareness Month Awareness Month.
posted by pompomtom at 7:37 PM on February 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

Is this something I'd have to be in nation with months to be aware of?
posted by Attackpanda at 8:21 PM on February 10, 2008

I'm drinking beer.

Not even going to wait until National Beer Month, either.
posted by Kadin2048 at 9:20 PM on February 10, 2008

You know, a lot of the "Awareness Months" listed are not, in fact, national, but are merely regional. So, technically, National National Awareness Month Awareness Month is a bit of a misnomer, as we are being made aware not of National Awareness Months, but of National and Regional, State, or Local Awareness months.

/killjoy
posted by papakwanz at 9:30 PM on February 10, 2008

Awareness Months are for causes too wimpy to insist on EDUCATION or KNOWLEDGE Months.

Hell with that; what we need are more Action Months.
posted by No Mutant Enemy at 1:41 AM on February 11, 2008

Also: I'm giving up "giving things up for Lent" for Lent.
posted by DU

I gave up Jesus for lent.

And every month is Goat Trauma and Alcohol Awareness Month for me.
posted by slimepuppy at 4:49 AM on February 11, 2008

Celebrating Black history, thanks for asking.
posted by Eideteker at 5:47 AM on February 11, 2008