i’m at work.

the day after thanksgiving, while most of the people i know are still sleeping during this day off, i’m sitting here looking for things to keep me busy.  while reading some news this morning, i came across an amusing ‘article,’ in the style of the onion.  the article is quite entertaining and should amuse anyone who thinks waking up at 5am to fight crowds for christmas deals is insane.

but then, i got to thinking, why is it called ‘black friday?’  i mean, for something that is billed and the biggest shopping day of the year, it sounds a little morbid, don’t you think?  of course, i went to wikipedia to get the facts.  when entering black friday, you are first directed to a page listing numerous entries with that name.  of course, the very first one refers to the day after thanksgiving, so i click on it, but not before scanning the rest of the list.  among the black fridays in the list, there’s one that’s a song by megadeath, one that’s the title of a 1993 hindi film, one that refers to a massacre of protesters in iran in ’78, and last but not least, one that refers to an air battle over norway in 1945.

in case you’re interested, at the bottom of the page, there are links to “black days of the week.” the notion alone i find amusing, for some reason.

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday (no black saturday?  what’s up with that?)
Sunday

you can check out the ‘thanksgiving’ version of black friday here….

there may be more to come later, as i may post multiple times today, just out of sheer boredom.