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Title: Black Friday!
Post by: underruler on November 28, 2005, 05:16:06 AM
Did anybody dare to venture outside on Friday?


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: smi256 on November 28, 2005, 08:21:34 AM
not to any stores, no :blink:  


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: SS on November 28, 2005, 08:45:06 PM
Huh? *looks up*

So, we've got all these:
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Black Friday (1869) - a stock market crash in the US
Black Friday (1919) - a riot in Glasgow stemming from industrial unrest
Black Friday (1921) - day on which British dockers' and railwaymen's union leaders announced their decision not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners
Black Friday (1939) - a day of devastating fires in Australia
Black Friday (1940 film) - science-fiction/horror film starring Boris Karloff, Stanley Ridges and Bela Lugosi.
Black Friday (1945) - Largest air battle over Norway, over Sunnfjord
Black Friday (1978) - a massacre of protesters in Iran
Black Friday (1982) - known in Britain after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War
Black Friday - a crackdown on a peaceful protest in the capital city of Maldives, Malé
Black Friday (2005 film) - an unreleased film on the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai

And then I find what you're talking about...
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Black Friday (shopping) - the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the first shopping day of the Christmas season and one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
:miffed:


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: matt_the_shark on November 29, 2005, 04:45:48 AM
haha, I love the way you brought that on, ss.

anywho, I didn't dare go shopping, although the main reason is probably that I don't shop anyway, :P followed by my being too lazy to go outside, anyway :D


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Lord Lanair on November 29, 2005, 07:49:35 AM
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anywho, I didn't dare go shopping, although the main reason is probably that I don't shop anyway, :P followed by my being too lazy to go outside, anyway :D
I second that.  ;)  


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Perdition on November 29, 2005, 09:04:28 AM
I went to best buy at 4:30 and there was already a line around the store (inside it that is), they had some sweet deals (like WoW and call of duty 2 for $25. I didn't look at any of their comp equipment because I couldn't afford it anyways) Didn't buy anything because i hate lines and people (still wondering why i went but whatever)

Then I went to circuit city and noticed that they had jacked up their prices instead of lowering them :D  

Evil said he was gonna go shopping but he hasn't said how that turned out yet.


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Galmort on November 30, 2005, 02:08:54 AM
i've always known and considered the day after thanksgiving to be the busiest shopping day of the year....not one of.

i had to work, usually it would be crazy crazy crazy busy....but it wasn't, which was definitely weird considering it was the weekend after harry potter was released. i'm crediting it towards the snow we got.  


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: underruler on November 30, 2005, 02:27:47 AM
Dood there was a riot at Wal-mart because they had $400 comps.


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Galmort on November 30, 2005, 05:19:19 AM
dood?

and thats funny


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Lord Lanair on December 01, 2005, 08:44:31 AM
I don't think I would trust a computer bought at Wal-Mart.   <_<

And what's wrong with shopping for gifts after Christmas?   :P  


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Saladin on December 01, 2005, 10:32:25 PM
this from the guy who owns a mac :P  


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Lord Lanair on December 02, 2005, 12:09:12 AM
Heeey... macs are good! :P  


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Galmort on December 02, 2005, 03:47:12 AM
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Heeey... macs are good! :P
how many times lanair? ...how many?


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Saladin on December 02, 2005, 08:24:17 AM
he sets himself up for this abuse


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: smi256 on December 02, 2005, 09:15:37 AM
"I think they shoot cuz they want it!!!"
verbal masochism?


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Lord Lanair on December 04, 2005, 08:58:41 AM
Hmm... I heard a great joke today, by the way:



Q. How are a computer and an air conditioner similar?
A. Once you open Windows, neither of them works.

 LOL  


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: mole on December 04, 2005, 11:37:24 PM
LOL


...the air con in one of the chillers at work decided to defrost the other day...right onto the stuff i was lugging around  <_<  


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: Rug on December 06, 2005, 01:29:42 PM
I'd say every day is Black <day> from now until february. The Mall was heaving yesterday - at 3pm on a monday. :blink:.


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: mole on December 07, 2005, 08:34:37 PM
black day? heheheh the inspector calls


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: RipperRoo on December 07, 2005, 09:22:59 PM
Arg, who mentioned black around Chris?


Title: Black Friday!
Post by: mole on December 07, 2005, 10:04:59 PM
its like that scene from the fast show