If you’re going to look at the same thing every day for an entire year, you should make it something attractive, meaningful, or worth a laugh. This applies to roommates, significant others, or calendars. Last year’s roundup of calendars was so popular, we ended up with a second edition compiled from your suggestions. There are at least as many fascinating calendars offered this year. Here are a few strange and interesting calendars for 2012.
1. The Mutter Museum Calendar
The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia is famous for its strange medical collection, which includes bones, anatomical specimens, plaster casts, things preserved in jars, and a huge collection of items that were swallowed or inhaled. They even have Einstein’s brain! You can have your own museum tour with their 2012 calendar featuring pictures of the Mutter Museum’s most popular and interesting exhibits.
2. Extraordinary Chickens
The 2012 Extraordinary Chicken Calendar features 25 pictures of exotic chicken breeds by photographer Stephen Green-Armytage for those who really love chickens. This is the ninth year this calendar has been offered, with different breeds included every year.
3. The Naked Archaeologist Calendar
For the fourth year now, various archaeologists from “RUINED” (Reading University Archaeology Society) bared themselves to raise funds for the Silchester Excavation Project. The photos are set in excavation sites all over the world. You can order yours for £8.00 through eBay.
4. Heather’s L’il 2012 Country Calendar
Heather McAdams drew not only the monthly pictures but also the calendars themselves for her L’il 2012 Country Calendar. The art focuses on, but is not limited to, country music. The calendar is packed with trivia and birthdays for each day, and more drawings as well.
5. Passive-Aggresive Notes Calendar
The website Passive-Aggresive Notes posts just that every day. Some of the best, well, 366 of them (2012 is leap year) are in the 2012 Passive-Aggresive Notes Calendar, which is a page-a-day calendar available online and in a bookstore near you.
6. Hot Guys and Baby Animals
The folks at Hot Guys and Baby Animals had great luck with their 2011 calendar (which we featured last year), so they’ve got a new one for 2012. You can watch how they got the shots in a series of behind-the-scenes videos. I can’t decide which is cuter, but both the guys and the animals are easy on the eyes.
7. Roman Priest Calendar
The Calendario Romano 2012 is advertised as a souvenir of Rome with information about the Vatican for those who aren’t in the know. But from what I see, only very attractive young priests get their photo in this calendar. In other words, they’re hot. They are already looking for priests to star in the 2013 version.
8. The Girls of Ryan Air Cabin Crew Charity Calendar
Ryan Air, the airline famous for no-frills flights (now considering removing toilets from planes to add more seats), is selling a calendar featuring scantily-clad flight attendants and other employees. The proceeds go to benefit DebRA, an organization that helps families of children suffering from epidermolysis bullosa.
9. Chemists and Scientist’s Calendar 2012
Artist Aurora Cacciapuoti designed this one-page poster calendar for 2012 featuring a scientist with a beaker for every month. Get yours through her Etsy shop Nekocherry. Two sizes are available.
10. 6 Packs 9 Lives Calendar
What do you want to look at all year long, adorable kittens or hunky men? You don’t have to choose with with 6 Packs 9 Lives Calendar, which combines both in each picture. Proceeds go to help animal shelters and promote cat adoption. Shown here is Dave and his cat Ginger, who grace the October page.
In addition, you might be able to find 2012 editions of the calendars featured in our previous lists, Ten Odd and Awesome 2011 Calendars and Ten More Odd 2011 Calendars.
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I’m totally not religious, but there is something wrong with a calendar featuring only extremely hot young preists. The church is practically forcing you to have dirty thoughts.
posted by Nicole on 12-20-2011 at 9:10 am
i was at Churchill downs and saw a calendar of the hot jockeys of louisville – i made it well known to my friend that it was high on my christmas wish list!
posted by Jen on 12-20-2011 at 9:46 am
Why feature two with the same theme? (“Hot” guys and cute animals.) There had to have been something else they could have featured.
posted by Jaime on 12-20-2011 at 10:29 am
How can you include the priest calendar and not “Nuns Having Fun” or “Goats in Trees”? Classics.
posted by Kevin on 12-20-2011 at 10:38 am
I want the extraordinary chickens calendar! Unfortunately it seems to be out of stock :-(
posted by Erika on 12-20-2011 at 11:41 am
Kevin, I didn’t want to do too much of the same list I did last year; both those are in those older posts I linked.
posted by Miss Cellania on 12-20-2011 at 12:29 pm
@ Erika – I just ordered the chicken calendar from Amazon.
posted by Pam on 12-20-2011 at 12:49 pm
I cannot help but notice that this Belly Boys calendar was forgotten from the list… ;)
http://www.etsy.com/listing/83676594/2012-calendar-belly-boys
posted by Fedora el Morro on 12-20-2011 at 2:08 pm
Using a graphic with dismembered babies was in pretty poor taste. I didn’t click on the link to look at the rest of the museum calendar.
posted by xq on 12-20-2011 at 2:53 pm
@xq – you are kidding right?
posted by Katie Rose on 12-20-2011 at 3:14 pm
The Naked Archaeologist baffles me more than the hot shirtless men with animals.
posted by pult du on 12-20-2011 at 5:05 pm
omg I need the 6 Packs and 9 Lives one. Now.
posted by M on 12-20-2011 at 5:07 pm
Have they stopped making the Extreme Ironing calendar???
posted by Karmen on 12-20-2011 at 6:32 pm
I got the humorous someecards desk calendar for next year. I like the silliness. Wish I’d known about the passive/agressive day calendar sooner.
posted by amanda on 12-20-2011 at 8:43 pm
I wish I had seen that chicken one before now. I’d buy it for my urban farmer brother. LOL!
posted by Kathy on 12-21-2011 at 11:41 am
@pult du: Every year there’s at least one nonprofit group that seeks to raise funds by issuing a calendar featuring their members naked, or very nearly so. For obvious reasons these calendars attract a lot of attention… but to put it politely, many of these well-meaning folks are best served keeping their clothes on.
posted by Brian on 12-21-2011 at 12:53 pm
This is one that should have been on the list!!!
It’s a bit expensive though, but still awesome
http://www.redbubble.com/people/sniperphotog/calendars/7804346-12-months-of-a-dead-ken
posted by Amanda van Der linde on 12-21-2011 at 3:08 pm
I was in Roma this summer with a friend an we saw the Roman Priest Calendar. Later that day, on the bus, my friend is talking about a young priest who standing behind me of how he should also be on the calendar. She is doing all this in spanish thinking he will not understand. Big mistake, spanish is a very commun language. The guy spoke perfect spanish because he was getting ready to be send to the same city that we live on in Mexico
posted by azma on 12-21-2011 at 7:39 pm