They say misery loves company

So make sure you surround yourself with lots of people today, because according to British psychologist Cliff Arnall, January 24 is the worst day of the year. He's even got a scientific theory (or, well, maybe it's not scientific) to proove it.

According to Arnall, January 24 is the average point at which:

we collectively express our outrage at our Christmas bills;

we're immersed in record high temperatures of 15 degrees;

we realize that we're all failures, give up our New Year's resolutions, and start smoking, drinking, eating bad, fornicating, etc., etc. again.

Arnall has a point. One check of Wikipedia, and you find that January 24 ain't all it's cracked up to be. Ted Bundy was executed on this day. Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearings began on this day. An Air India jet crashed in 1966 killing 117 people. The prosecution in the O.J. Simpson murder trial began. A Turkish journalist was killed.

Shit, why did we get out of bed this morning?!

Wait...I know why. It's because in 1922, Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie.

Ahh, take that Cliff Arnall!