Black Friday
I don't know why they call it Black Friday, but that is what the two legs named the day AFTER Thanksgiving. Evidently it has a lot to do with shopping.
Of course my Mouse Person, heard us discussing this problem, and suggested that we ask Wikipedia because they always know everything. Ha. MOPE, (Mouse Person) was correct and this is what we learned:
The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.Use of the term started before 1966 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black"
So I guess that answers that question.
This year, Black Friday will be on Friday, the 25th day of November. I must tell you that Mom and I are not really into "going shopping" We like to find our presents using our computer or our pile of mail order catalogs which is growing daily.
Did you know that the MONDAY after Thanksgiving has a name too...... I guess for people like us.
It is Cyber Monday and according to Wikipedia,
Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, created by companies to persuade people to shop online. The term made its debut on November 28, 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyber Monday' Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year".According to the Shop.org/BizRate Research 2005 eHoliday Mood Study, "77 percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially last year on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a trend that is driving serious online discounts and promotions on Cyber Monday this year (2005)". In 2006, Shop.org announced that it launched the CyberMonday.com portal, a one-stop shop for Cyber-Monday deals.
The term "Cyber Monday" is a neologism invented by Shop.org, part of the U.S. trade association National Retail Federation. It was first used within the ecommerce community during the 2005 holiday season. According to Scott Silverman, the head of Shop.org, the term was coined based on research showing that 78% of online retailers reported a significant increase in sales on the Monday after Thanksgiving in 2004.In late November 2005, the New York Times reported that "The name Cyber Monday grew out of the observation that millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of window shopping, were returning to high-speed Internet connections at work Monday and buying what they liked."
So this is pretty interesting information, but I have discovered something that I think is better than shopping at all, and it will be free. I have found out that on Friday night at 8 o'clock my friends Hoops & Yo-Yo (and piddles) will have their very own TV Special on CBS. Yeah!
If you want to see a little preview of this movie, get your own Mouse Person to fly you over to The Official Hoops & Yo-Yo Site and while you are there, you can find some places to Shop, which you can do on Cyber-Monday, which is when we will be doing our own shopping.
If you have never seen Hoops & Yo-Yo, you will be in for a total treat, because no matter what kind of mood you are in (because your turkey didn't cook right, or because Black Friday is depressing you), then you are going to meet some very funny guys who are guaranteed to make you smile, and probably laugh right out loud.
Love and Licks,
Bob
------ not a shopper
------------ but loves Hoops & YoYo
Of course my Mouse Person, heard us discussing this problem, and suggested that we ask Wikipedia because they always know everything. Ha. MOPE, (Mouse Person) was correct and this is what we learned:
The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.Use of the term started before 1966 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black"
So I guess that answers that question.
This year, Black Friday will be on Friday, the 25th day of November. I must tell you that Mom and I are not really into "going shopping" We like to find our presents using our computer or our pile of mail order catalogs which is growing daily.
Did you know that the MONDAY after Thanksgiving has a name too...... I guess for people like us.
It is Cyber Monday and according to Wikipedia,
Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, created by companies to persuade people to shop online. The term made its debut on November 28, 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyber Monday' Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year".According to the Shop.org/BizRate Research 2005 eHoliday Mood Study, "77 percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially last year on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a trend that is driving serious online discounts and promotions on Cyber Monday this year (2005)". In 2006, Shop.org announced that it launched the CyberMonday.com portal, a one-stop shop for Cyber-Monday deals.
The term "Cyber Monday" is a neologism invented by Shop.org, part of the U.S. trade association National Retail Federation. It was first used within the ecommerce community during the 2005 holiday season. According to Scott Silverman, the head of Shop.org, the term was coined based on research showing that 78% of online retailers reported a significant increase in sales on the Monday after Thanksgiving in 2004.In late November 2005, the New York Times reported that "The name Cyber Monday grew out of the observation that millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of window shopping, were returning to high-speed Internet connections at work Monday and buying what they liked."
So this is pretty interesting information, but I have discovered something that I think is better than shopping at all, and it will be free. I have found out that on Friday night at 8 o'clock my friends Hoops & Yo-Yo (and piddles) will have their very own TV Special on CBS. Yeah!
If you want to see a little preview of this movie, get your own Mouse Person to fly you over to The Official Hoops & Yo-Yo Site and while you are there, you can find some places to Shop, which you can do on Cyber-Monday, which is when we will be doing our own shopping.
If you have never seen Hoops & Yo-Yo, you will be in for a total treat, because no matter what kind of mood you are in (because your turkey didn't cook right, or because Black Friday is depressing you), then you are going to meet some very funny guys who are guaranteed to make you smile, and probably laugh right out loud.
Love and Licks,
Bob
------ not a shopper
------------ but loves Hoops & YoYo
Posted by Daisy and Bob's Blog at 11/21/2011 10:10 AM 
Categories: TELEVISION SHOWS, Just for Fun
Tags: Hoops and YoYo Black Friday Cyber Monday blogging pitbull American Pit Bull Terrier
Categories: TELEVISION SHOWS, Just for Fun
Tags: Hoops and YoYo Black Friday Cyber Monday blogging pitbull American Pit Bull Terrier
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