The National Day Day people seem to be running out of National Day Days. Today was National Paper Airplane Day aNational Blueberry Cheesecake Days. I couldn't work up any inspiration around either of those days. So I turned to the OnThisDay webpage for inspiration. Today is John Wayne's birthday. Or it would have been, because the Duke died in 1979 and for years there was this urban myth that an autopsy found a 40 pounds of impacted fecal matter in his colon that was attributed to his manly ingestion of lots of meat. In reality he died from stomach cancer and there never was an autopsy conducted.
Despite the fact that the legend of his colon was a myth I remember going to a large restaurant chain many years ago called the Claim Jumper. Their menu came in a larger binder and contain page after page of menu items chock full of excessive amounts of meat. I asked the server why they didn't have an item on the menu called, "John Wayne's Colon" and she just stared at me blankly. This is a look I'm quite familiar with.
Today is also the day in history when The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released and went to #1 for 22 weeks in the UK and 15 weeks in the US. I'm sad to say that while there were many famous Hollywood stars in the background on the album cover including Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, W.C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy, neither John Wayne nor his colon was featured.
This is not an actual cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." It is an imaginary band I dreamt up a year or two ago called The Big Beats. They were a Beatlesque band made up of Big Foot individuals. As with all of my obscure t-shirt designs, the several I did for the Big Beats never caught on.
And on this day in 1910, U.S. General George S. Patton married Beatrice Ayer in Boston, Massachusetts. I don't believe he was a general at the time or was wearing the pearl handled 45 caliber pistols.
That's the way it is and was, Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
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