Re: T0Day minus 0

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:03:40 -0800
Snidely <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kerr-Mudd, John was thinking very hard :
> > On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:50:02 -0800
> > Snidely <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hey, if you're in the US, Happy Thanksgiving!  May all your gatherings 
> >> be cheerful and warm!
> >> 
> >> If you're in Canada, I hope you have happy memories of your 
> >> Thanksgiving.
> >> 
> >> If you're elsewhere, I hope that the harvest or planting celebrations 
> >> are prompting thanks for the bounty before the winter's chill ... or 
> >> the summer's scorch for the Upside Down Folk.
> >> 
> > We (UK) have Black Friday. We don't know much about it yet, but if there's
> > a cheap deal...
> 
> Before the mailers started, what would you have thought "Black Friday" 
> referred to?
> 
> (The Mary Poppins answer: It's the Day all the Sweeps get together to 
> sing "Chim Chim Cherree".)

It was back when the UK joined the ERM for a few hours. Oh that was
Wednesday. We also had Blue Mondays.  Maybe all days are colour-coded, and
I've forgotten.

-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.