Episode 279
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It looks like we are in for another beat down.
Wait…… Is Theodor Roosevelt really….. Chuck Norris in disguise? =-O That aside, Black Friday is really quick, but not too strong…. Hoping against hope he does well……
So far he's not doing too well at all 🙁
This does not bode well for poor Friday 🙁
Who knows though, I thought all three were gonners, then the elementals showed up!
Opposite did lose an arm!
But he still lives and breathes, at least for the moment 😀
For those of you unschooled in the history involved, Teddy was more or less the Chuck Norris of his day (publicity/marketing-wise). Minus the inane jokes. However, it should be noted that unlike Chuck Norris, Pres. Roosevelt never used a stunt double, and when he was shot at, the bullets were real.
I would think Black Friday should do better against President's Day. Look at this year: Black Friday sales began on Thursday, encroaching upon Thanksgiving. It is becoming a two day event with a Cyber Monday sidekick, while President's Day is… is… an excuse for a three day weekend.
Exactly. President's Day is a dying holiday. It makes sense that he'd side with The Bunny.
He's a spender, not a fighter.
Nobody backs Friday in a corner.
/me begins celebrating Black Friday 10 months early.
I'm not sure if that's going to work.
A little quick research finds the first reference to "Black Friday" is from 1869, referring to the financial crises. The date was September 24th when two entrepreneurs tried to corner the gold market and caused the crises, incidentally rocking the presidency of Ulysses S Grant with another scandal since he was associated with them.
The first official use of the term "Black Friday." in association with the day after Thanksgiving, is from a public relations newsletter in Philadelphia 1961, though the term was undoubtedly used by the police there before that. They called the two days after Thanksgiving "Black Friday" and "Black Saturday" because of all the traffic jams when people clogged the streets shopping. By 1966 it was so commonly used as to even appear in news reports, though it spread gradually. By 1985 there were still retailers that hadn't heard of the term. It was during the early 1980's that retailers began to object to the negative use of the term and offer an alternate theory. The spread the story that black friday is the day the stores go into "Black Ink" for the year, meaning began making a profit.
Given that history, I would expect Black Friday to be really good at causing delays.
THIEF! I totally posted a good portion of that in the comments section of the last comic.