In my quest to celebrate every holiday possible (we've already had Year of the Dog at the sichuan restaurant and Groundhog's Day with Bill Murray), I am trying to figure out a way to effectively celebrate the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, Honest Abe, one of our most celebrated orators and my grandmother's hero. I still have the little bronze figurine of him giving the Gettysburg Address that she gave me when I was born.

But how to celebrate this holiday in style? Mandounette has the answer.

1. Print out your copy of the Gettysburg Address and learn it by heart. (This will come in handy later).

2. If living in the United States, pay for everything with $5 bills and pennies.

3. Read an excerpt from your Portable Abraham Lincoln to your loved ones.

4. Try to work one of the following Lincoln quotes into a conversation (or any others that you prefer more):

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

5. Lincoln's father was a bourbon distillery hand in Knob Creek when Abe was growing up so go ahead and knock back a few Knob Creeks. Either drink in moderation (as ol' Abe would've wanted) or prepare to recite the Gettysburg address to all present.

VARIATION: If you are in New York, go to Keene's for your Bourbon. They supposedly have the program that Lincoln was holding when he was assassinated framed on the second floor.

Have a happy Lincoln's birthday and please share any of your personal ways of celebrating this underrated holiday.