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Baroque Bloke |
The origin of "Black Friday" as we use the term now. "…The term eventually stuck when the New York Times used it in 1975 to describe the shopping day. Still, the rest of the country outside of the northeast U.S. had no idea about "Black Friday."…" www.google.com/amp/abc13.com/a...hanksgiving/2689995/ Serious about crackers | ||
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Stangosaurus Rex |
The last few years I have wondered how long the term would last before it was considered a racial term dredging up memories of slavery and oppresion! ___________________________ "I Get It Now" Beth Greene | |||
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| Rail-less and Tail-less |
When I was in college and was a bouncer at various bars in and around Northern NJ and NYC we called the day before thanksgiving black Wednesday because that was when all the college kids came back home and went to the bars. I didn’t start hearing the term Black Friday until many years later. _______________________________________________ Use thumb-size bullets to create fist-size holes. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
That is not how I heard it. In precomputer accounting, operating at a loss was color coded red and operating at a profit was color coded black. The influx of shoppers the day after Thanksgiving is when most of retail crossed the line from the red to the black. Thus, the term Black Friday was born in the retail world. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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"Member" |
30-35 years ago people I knew who worked retail used te term because it was the worst day of the year to have to work. I don't recall it being in common useage in the media or consumers. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Yep.
Black protesters briefly shut down the Galleria mall in St. Louis today on "Black Friday". "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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I'm not sure how the term ever became associated with retail-sales. But historically, it's always been associated with the round-up, torture, and execution of the Knights Templar; by the King of France on Friday the 13th. __________________________ "We're after men - and I wish to God I was with them. The next time you make a mistake, I'm going to ride off and let you die." - Deke Thornton, - The Wild Bunch | |||
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An astounding intelligence/logistical feat. Probably the best ever. *************************** Knowing more by accident than on purpose. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
"Best," or most impressive? By all accounts it was done to avoid responsibility for debt to the Templars. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
That's how I learned it too. I think the article makes a reference to it but it's like as an aftermath. I've never seen anything big refered to as "black." (Although, I've heard the word big applied to black but in a different context.) "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Yes, good point. I can appreciate the distinction. Most efficient? However, regardless of other considerations that might or might not influence my opinion, that effort would be tantamount to the Nazis rounding up 99% of the Maquis in France in one fell swoop. Astoundingly efficient. It's not like the Knights Templar had no advance warning system. Or were entirely oblivious to the opinion that it wasn't a good idea to ensnare the French Crown in debt up to its tits, and beyond, its eyeballs. The warning was raised by a few and even fewer escaped the inevitable. Greed has a way of leading people astray. And by abandoning that principle, the Knights Templar brought it upon themselves. It's no wonder that Philip IV was and has been called both the Fair and the Iron King. Nice mix, but certainly not for those who suffered through it. As always, and life goes on. *************************** Knowing more by accident than on purpose. | |||
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