On Presidents' Day 2011, I usurped all my friends' social media feeds to honor each U.S. president in his own special way. Here is the full list of those honors, grouped by category:
My personal favorites:
In honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, I will successfully invade a German chocolate cake. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of George H.W. Bush, I will dine at a Japanese steakhouse tonight. You might not want to sit next to me. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Thomas Jefferson, whose second vice-president was named George Clinton, I will increase the funk. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Millard Fillmore, who joined the "Know Nothing" movement after his term, I will watch an hour of E!. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Zachary Taylor, exhumed in 1991 to see if he had been poisoned, I will @Netflix "Conspiracy Theory." #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of William McKinley, who annexed Hawaii in 1898, I will eat an entire pineapple. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President, known as one of the "Bourbon Democrats," I will drink two shots of Maker's Mark.
In honor of William Henry Harrison, who was president for 32 days before dying of pneumonia, I will now eat a bowl of cereal.
In honor of James K. Polk, during whose presidency we "acquired" what is now TX, NM, AZ, NV, UT, CA from Mexico, I will now eat a taco.
Absurd/unrealistic:
In honor of Theodore Roosevelt, who founded the Bull-Moose Party in 1912, I will wrestle the first moose I see today. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Harry S. Truman, who famously cheated on an eye exam to join the army, I will go the rest of today with no corrective lenses.
In honor of John Adams, I will apply for the position of U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, which Adams held from 1782-88.
In honor of Woodrow Wilson, the only president with a PhD, I will now refer to him only as "Dr. President." #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Abraham Lincoln, I will buy tickets to a play AND NOT GO ANYWHERE NEAR THAT THEATER. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Lyndon B. Johnson, I will re-name my ant farm "The Great Society." #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Ulysses Grant, who picked up the initial "S" from an error on his West Point paperwork, I will adopt the middle initial "Q."
In honor of James Garfield, assassinated by a disgruntled job-seeker, I will apply again to be U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.
In honor of George W. Bush, I will invade Iran under the little-known "Liar, Liar, pants on fire" proviso. #presidentsdaytribute
Political:
In honor of Jimmy Carter, I will broker a truce between the homeless guy who stands on my street corner and himself. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of John Quincy Adams, who swore the oath of office on a book of laws instead of a Bible, I will re-read the first amendment.
In honor of Richard Milhous Nixon, who probably did more for the environment than any president since, I will now hug a tree...
In honor of Gerald Ford, I will pardon Nixon for everything else he did while in office. Then fall down some stairs. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of William H. Taft, who proposed the 16th Amendment allowing a federal income tax, I will have two more shots of Maker's Mark.
In honor of Andrew Jackson, I will help some Native American friends move west... whether they want to or not. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Bill Clinton, I will drop off my dry cleaning. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Calvin Coolidge, a governor of Massachusetts before he became president, I say "Suck it, Mitt Romney." #presidentsdaytribute
Pop culture/film/music:
In honor of Franklin Pierce, the only president from New Hampshire, I will watch "Live Free or Die Hard." #presidentsdaytribute
This song (http://bit.ly/gOivku) goes out to James Monroe, who presided over the so-called "Era of Good Feelings." #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Franklin Roosevelt, who may have actually had Guillain-Barre Syndrome and not polio, I will watch an episode of House.
Ronald Reagan called Cubs games he didn't attend on radio. He read the wire and faked crowd, game noise. That's just awesome. I got nothing.
In honor of Chester A. Arthur, who signed a law banning polygamists from voting or holding office, I will watch season one of "Big Love."
Everyday life:
In honor of Warren G. Harding, first newspaper publisher to be elected president, I will now empty my recycling bins. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Martin Van Buren, nicknamed the "Little Magician," I will now make my pile of dirty laundry disappear. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of James Buchanan, the only U.S. President who was a life-long bachelor, I will not go on a date tonight. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Rutherford B. Hayes, who looked like this http://ow.ly/40CU6, I will now trim my beard. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of George Washington, whose struggles with oral hygiene were well-documented, I will now floss. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Herbert Hoover, who worked as a mining engineer in Australia and China, I link to my sister's travel blog: http://ow.ly/40Hem
In honor of John F. Kennedy, the only Catholic president, I will say five Hail Marys. #presidentsdaytribute
I should have done better:
In honor of James Madison, who helped broker the Louisiana Purchase, I will place four drops of Tabasco on my tongue. #presidentsdaytribute
In honor of Benjamin Harrison, who was preceded and succeeded by Grover Cleveland, I will invent a new sandwich and call it "The Benjy."
And finally, in honor of Barack Obama, I will write myself a stimulus check for eleventy billion dollars. #presidentsdaytribute
So there we have it. All 43 posts I made yesterday on this topic. Which ones were your favorites? What opportunities did I miss? Let me hear in the comments.