KEEP OFF THE GRASS DAY
Delphine de Rochester has gone to great lengths to keep her gravesite pristine and the greenest in Ol’ Turnip Head’s cemetery. So she rightly gets uptight when people keep walking over her grave.
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#keepoffthegrassday #keepoffthegrass #grass
WORLD VOICE DAY
Who would have thought a zombie could still regain his set of pipes?!
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#worldvoiceday #voiceforthevoiceless #voice
BLUE UMBRELLA DAY
Despite his general misanthropy, Ol’ Turnip Head is quick to defend innocent young boys against the worst of humanity who dare to bring their acts of filth to his cemetery.
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#blueumbrella #blueumbrelladay
TITANIC REMEMBRANCE DAY
Ol’ Turnip Head was slumbering in his crypt when the Titanic sank in 1912. Nevertheless, when he learns that one of his lovers Adrienne had family onboard, he decides to build a small monument in honour.
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#titanic #titanicremembranceday
PATHOLOGISTS’ ASSISTANT DAY
Assisting in Prof. Ulysses’ laboratory is not for the faint of heart, especially if there’s an autopsy to perform. Nevertheless, he and Prof. Sapio can depend on their glamorous assistants.
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#pathologistsassistantday #pathologistsassistant
PUFFIN DAY
Just as Ol’ Turnip Head starts getting into birdwatching, puffins flock onto the coast of his foreboding cemetery.
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#puffin #puffins #puffinday #puffinmigration
WORLD CHAGAS DISEASE DAY
Ol’ Turnip Head catches the wrong kissing bug hitching on his cheek! Rather than risking one of his favourite Living catch Chagas, Silas promptly ensures the bug’s elimination.
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#worldchagasdiseaseday #chagasdisease #kissingbug
INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL LIBRARIANS DAY
Assisting Prof. Ulysses on another experiment, Silas risks Hypatia’s icy ire by sneaking into the restricted niche section of her library.
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#internationalspeciallibrariansday #speciallibrarians #librarian
NATIONAL FOR TWELVES DAY
On the outskirts of Silas’ graveyard lies a small plot where a dozen special graves commemorate unnamed bodies.
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#nationalfortwelvesday #twelve #12 #dozen
WORLD BATON TWIRLING DAY
Talia practices her baton twirling with some old bones, moving like a graceful bird unlike a stiff corpse.
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#worldbatontwirlingday #batontwirling #baton
INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT DAY
Ol’ Turnip Head judges the annual ghoulish pageant Madame Monster to find the most frightening contestants. Though difficult to judge, he finds a few contenders.
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#internationalpageantday #pageant #spookypageant #monsterpageant #beautypagent
INTERNATIONAL BE KIND TO LAWYERS DAY
Introducing Ol’ Turnip Head’s lawyer, Quentin Fairfax KC, who is constantly brought into court with his client to remind the lawmakers that the dead cannot be prosecuted.
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#internationalbekindtolawyersday #lawyer
Baroness Kalonice is an Aries ♈️. The following characteristics may apply to her:
Assertive, passionate, impulsive, energetic, competitive, ambitious, aggressive, loyal, bold, headstrong, enthusiastic, impatient, optimistic
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#aries #ariesseason♈️ #arieslover #zodiacaries♈
NATIONAL TARTAN DAY
Dearil McLoughlin and Ol’ Turnip Head proudly show off their Scottish tartan cloths. And unfortunately walk over an air vent.
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#nationaltartanday #tartan #scottishtartan #tartankilt
PLAN YOUR EPITAPH DAY
At Silas’ graveyard, this lyrical epitaph is just as guaranteed as the term ‘parasympathetic rebound’ will appear on one’s death certificate.
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#planyourepitaphday #epitaph #grave
ROGER CORMAN
Celebrating the centennial birthday of The King of Cult Movies!
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#rogercorman #littleshopofhorrors #masqueofthereddeath #thewaspwoman #rogercormanpoemovies
INTERNATIONAL FIREWALK DAY
On the plus side, Ol’ Turnip Head has found another method of torture.
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#firewalking #firewalk #internationalfirewalkday #internationalfirewalkingday
WORLD DRUMMERS DAY
Who would have thought that the heartbeat of music could be played so ferociously by someone without a heartbeat!?
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#drums #drummer #drumming #worlddrummersday
INTERNATIONAL PILLOW FIGHT DAY
Pillows are more lethal than they seem. One nearly decapitated Ol’ Turnip Head during a pillow fight!
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#internationalpillowfightday #pillowfight #pillowfightday #pillowfeathers #pillowfeatherseverywhere
LON CHANEY
Ol’ Turnip Head faces the 100 faces of an original master of classic horror.
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#lonchaney #manwith1000faces #lonchaneysr
EIFFEL TOWER DAY
While on his Grand Tour through Europe, Silas ventured to Paris where he heard the tragic story of Franz Reichelt. He tried to test out where Reichelt went wrong.
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#eiffeltower #parachute #eiffeltower🗼🇫🇷 #toureiffel #franzreichelt
WORLD PIANO DAY
Ol’ Turnip Head never misses any of Kit’s piano recitals. The same could be said for their previous tutor, whom Silas left tied up.
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#worldpianoday #piano #pianorecital
RESPECT YOUR CAT DAY
Drusilla’s pet cat Mercury has come to grow fond of Ol’ Turnip Head and vice versa.
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#respectyourcatday #cat #respectyourcat #respectyourcatday🐾
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER DAY
Probably the most offensive thing to say to the living dead is “Live long and prosper”! Very little prosperity in the cemetery!
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#livelongandprosper #livelongandprosper🖖 #llap #llap🖖 #starttrek
WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY
Back in the 19th Century, Ol’ Turnip Head briefly befriended Bernice Cardew, who lived in squalor begging for scraps until she eventually succumbed to consumption.
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#worldtuberculosisday #tuberculosis #consumption #tb #coughingupblood
WORLD PUPPETRY DAY
Fidelio Fantaccini and Ol’ Turnip Head displaying the right way and the wrong way to perform with puppets.
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#puppetry #puppets #stringpuppet #glovepuppets
OSTARA (SPRING EQUINOX)
Silas doesn’t mind letting the grass grow in his cemetery, unless they look too green.
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#ostara #springequinox #spring #grasscutting #rabbit
DRIVING INSTRUCTOR DAY
Ol’ Turnip Head always wanted to learn to drive. But unfortunately for his instructor, their first lesson only fuelled his need for speed!
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#drivinginstructor #driverinstructor #drivinglesson #speedcar #speeddemon
SAVE A SPIDER DAY
Little acts of mercy go a long way.
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#saveaspiderday #saveaspiderday🕷 #saveaspider #spider #spiders
