EVERYTHING WENT BLACK
Nov. 27th, 2009 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogThe funny thing about this so-called Black Friday of yrs is that the term – in reference to the day after Thanksgiving (as opposed to the Fisk/Gould scandal of 1869) – has been around since the mid-60s, but I’ve never really heard it used until the last couple of years.
That may be because it started in Philadelphia and took until 2000 to see widespread national usage (source: Wikipedia). And okay, I’ve been out of the country since 1996. Still, I do have Internet, so it seems like it’s only just recently caught on to the point where the media uses it like crazy.
That’s why when I hear the term ‘Black Friday’, I don’t think about shopping bargains or overcrowded malls. I think of Boris Karloff.
See also: Steely Dan and Megadeth.
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That may be because it started in Philadelphia and took until 2000 to see widespread national usage (source: Wikipedia). And okay, I’ve been out of the country since 1996. Still, I do have Internet, so it seems like it’s only just recently caught on to the point where the media uses it like crazy.
That’s why when I hear the term ‘Black Friday’, I don’t think about shopping bargains or overcrowded malls. I think of Boris Karloff.
See also: Steely Dan and Megadeth.
Paint it black,
This is dF
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on 2009-11-27 07:51 pm (UTC)~M~