Discover magazine runs a feature named “Save the Date,” listing odd events and celebrations around the world. This month brings a particularly rich crop. Who knew about the Redneck Games, held in East Dublin, Ga., on July 7? “Events include the hubcap hurl, Dumpster Dive, Bobbing for Pigs’ Feet, and the Mudpit Belly Flop.” [Note to editor: Can we send someone to cover this next year?] Then there was the world championships of wife carrying in Sonkajarvi, Finland: “Forty men race over 250 meters of obstacles, including a pool, each carrying his wife.” In Pamplona, Spain, there was a Running of the Nudes on July 5. Still to come are the Mid-Atlantic Hermit Crab Challenge in Virginia Beach, the Nothing Festival in Telluride, Co. (watch the sun rise and set), the Fiesta of the Near-Death Experience in Neves, Spain (“Throngs of those claiming to have had brushes with death are carried by friends and relatives in coffins through a procession that follows an effigy of Santa Marta…”). Then of course, at the end of the month, the European Beard and Mustache Championship. And to think we used to call this the Silly Season!