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  2. Sadie Hawkins Day - Wikipedia

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    Sadie Hawkins Day is an American folk event and pseudo-holiday originated by Al Capp's hillbilly comic strip Li'l Abner (1934–1977). The annual comic strip storyline inspired real-world Sadie Hawkins events , the premise of which is that women ask men for a date or dancing.

  3. Sadie Hawkins dance - Wikipedia

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    A Sadie Hawkins dance or turnabout [1] is a usually informal dance sponsored by a high school, middle school or college, to which the ladies invite the gentlemen to be their dates. [2] This is contrary to the custom of the guys typically inviting the girls to be their dates to school dances such as prom in the spring and homecoming in the fall.

  4. Li'l Abner - Wikipedia

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    Sadie Hawkins Day is a pseudo-holiday created in the strip. It first appeared in Li'l Abner on November 15, 1937. Capp originally created it as a comedic plot device, but in 1939, two years after its debut, a double-page spread in Life proclaimed, "On Sadie Hawkins Day Girls Chase Boys in 201 Colleges". By 1952, the event was reportedly ...

  5. What Is a Sadie Hawkins Dance and Where Did It Come From? - AOL

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  6. Happy November! November Holidays and Observances 2024, From ...

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    Aviation History Month. Banana Pudding Lovers Month. Bereaved Siblings Month, Worldwide ... Sadie Hawkins Day occurs on November 13 and is an American folk event and pseudo-holiday originated by ...

  7. Leap year superstitions and traditions from around the world

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    The tradition eventually made it to America, finding its way in comic strips before being made into “Sadie Hawkins Day.” Anyone who’s born on 29 February, leap day, was said to be unlucky in ...

  8. Bachelor's Day (tradition) - Wikipedia

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    Bachelor's Day, sometimes known as Ladies' Privilege, [1] is an Irish tradition by which women are allowed to propose to men on Leap Day, 29 February, based on a legend of Saint Bridget and Saint Patrick. It once had legal basis in Scotland and England.

  9. Kickapoo Joy Juice - Wikipedia

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    "Kickapoo Joy Juice" was a fictional beverage coined in the American comic strip Li'l Abner. [7] Al Capp, the cartoonist, described the beverage as "a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rose into the air, stiff as frozen codfish".