Black Friday Cometh
I hear the Steely Dan song in my mind on constant repeat every Thanksgiving season. "When Blaaaack Friday Comes..."
First you watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving while fat and satisfied on at least half of a Sweet Potato Pie (I heard a cruel joke about only Euro-Americans eating Pumpkin pie. Is this true?) Then, you grab a newspaper and figure out what you are going to waste your money on this year. Money that should go somewhere else, but no, CIRCUIT CITY is selling all cd's for $9.99 (so I have to go buy that MC BRAINS cd I never wanted). Then you'd sleep and go stand outside in the freezing abyss for an hour or two to join the melee...that used to be the case.
Now we search the internet for Black Friday sales and buy online. I like a good stakeout. This year I have something I NEED to buy and happens to be on sale: portable hard drive. How often does that happen?
Where you headed, if anywhere, this BLACK FRIDAY? Are there racial tones to that "black" there? We do spend a lot. Which version of Elmo will soccer moms be killing for this year?
Go buy John Forte's CD, he just got pardoned.
and check out BFriday ads on BFADS.NET
posted by CaesarKwest at
8:42 PM
4 Comments:
U know last year was HELL fam! Aurora outlet mall was bananas adn the sales werent even all that. They were mad regular. If thats anyones plan for this year, plan to unplan that plan.
My brother...if you want to REALLY take advantage of those door buster sales you will need to be in line alot longer than a couple of hours.
There are PROFESSIONAL Black Friday shoppers. These people set up tents in front of the store starting at 5:00 on Thanksgiving. By the time you get in line at midnight, there are already 60 people ahead of you waiting to get that $350 laptop that will crash in a year.
And that bitter night cold is NO PUNK...wear 4 pairs of socks! lol
What up?
As a nerdy business major, you know I gotta tell you what "they" say Black Friday means. It supposedly refers to accounting in which the day helps retailers (who are in the "red" or experiencing negative profits) get back into positive profits (the black). So, this is one case in which black is considered positive by those who normally wouldn't feel so.
But there are other origins of the term that comes from the 1960s. Back then, the Philadelphia police would blame the crime rate on the Friday after Thanksgiving on our people.
So, we're both right. :)
NICE BLOG! I'll back through.
Zack
i love the knowledge...thanks Zack. I wasn't sure either way. I was really looking for someone to just tell me what it means. You da man
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