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175 Black Friday
(Green Friday) &
Cyber Monday (Black Monday) posted: 051203
Brick-and-mortar stores have Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), while
online stores have Cyber Monday (the first Monday after Thanksgiving). Cyber
Monday for online stores corresponds to Black Friday for ordinary stores.
Cyber Monday <
http://news.yahoo.com/s/apfinance/20051128/ap_fi/cyber_monday >
<
http://multichannelmerchant.com/holiday_resource/Cyber_Monday_holiday_1122/index.html
>
For Black Friday, see Letter #144, 33
Note: We have been thinking “Black Friday doesn’t sound good. “ Indeed, day
before Thanksgiving, I heard on a radio talk show that two hostesses were saying
statements similar to ours. On another radio talk show, the listeners were
saying that Black Friday could be renamed by “Red Friday” “Blue Friday”, “Broke
Friday”, “Black & Blue Friday”, etc. At the end, the show proposed that Black &
Blue Friday would be the best. Interesting, isn’t it?
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Q from Japanese A:
Re: Black & Blue Friday, I've just found that
there is the expression, black-and-blue (bruises). Do you think that the radio
show hostesses think of this meaning besides "black in ink" on the side of
retailers and "blue moods" on the consumer side?
A from
American C: Yes, black-and-blue is used so often to refer to bruises that I
would guess the hostesses probably had this in mind.
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Black
Friday is
known as
Green Friday.
Japanese A: "Have you guys heard 'Green Friday?' What is the meaning of
'Green' for 'Green Friday?' "
American
C: “Green Friday would probably be referring to "money" Friday. I have never
heard of green Friday but I know green is often referred to as money (green
being the color of money). It is somewhat common if someone is asked to do
something they might say "Show me (or give me) some green", meaning "Give me
enough money and I will do it".
Green Friday
actually makes more sense to me than Black and Blue Friday or even just Black
Friday.”
Japanese A: “Your guess sounds right. Then, we could use 'Green Monday'
instead of 'Cyber Monday', couldn't we?"
For “Green Stuff”, see
Quiz
12
Green Friday (Note: This site describes Black Friday in a way different from
ours. Their description makes sense, too.) <
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MikeRubino/006008.html
>
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Cyber Monday is also called “Black
Monday”.
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