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Today is Friday. (as regular contributers to Wikipedia, lets start over there)
The name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ,meaning the “day of Frige”. The same holds for Frīatag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern German and Vrijdag in Dutch
OK, before the scotts can get too worked up, ( …”hell yeah they was talking about fridge day, whereby dem Norseans had to be talking about brewskies! in the fridge… YEAH !!! ” ) Lets delve a little deeper into the etymology.
The word for Friday in most Romance languages is derived from Latin dies Veneris, “day of Venus” (a translation of Greek Aphrodites hemera) such as vendredi in French, venerdì in Italian, viernes in Spanish, divendres in Catalan, vennari in Corsican, and vineri in Romanian. This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh language as dydd Gwener. An exception is Portuguese, also a Romance language, which uses the word sexta-feira,meaning “sixth day of liturgical celebration”, derived from the Latin “feria sexta” used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods
I can hear the lowing of rogers with their cropped and tagged ears perking up at the mention of old dead people in love, ( …but you don’t understand! It’s a beautiful story of long ago with a beautiful woman promising the brave champion a place among the gods, except the other woman who always hangs around won’t let him go on his Quest, even though they both will be better off if she would only not be so constricting, why can’t she just let him have some fun sometimes. Like on Friday night… ) ( …yeeahh!! brewskies!!!… ). Clearly, Friday has always been a special spot on the calendar of the days of the week.
Traditionally, Roman Catholics were obliged to refrain from eating the meat of land animals on Fridays, although fish was allowed. However, episcopal conferences are now authorized to allow some other form of penance to replace abstinence from meat. Many still choose the traditional form of Friday penance ( ..hey scott! Come back!! He said abstinence from meat…lol )
So that accounts for why we call today, Friday. Everything has got to have a name, and the etymolgy of the word can be very enlightening, what with the insight it affords us… ( …excuse me, how come the clark speaking in today’s Post is not placed in italics like scott and I and does not have a characteristic color to the font? What happened, did they run out of beige font? ….Fuck YEAH!!! FONT!! )
Lets look a little closer at the manifestation of Friday, particularly in most Western cultures. Maybe it’s best to bullet point all of the sayings and references to Friday and see where that takes us ( …how inspired… )
- TGIF (aka Thank God It’s Friday) a popular restaurant chain and graphic example of the cultural larceny of the corporatocracy, wtf! this has been a commonly used expression since Davy frickin Crockett! People have been celebrating the end of the work week, and throwing in some religious reminders of how the Lord is our savior and would it hurt so terribly much to thank Him, it’s not like he wants to tag along as we go out to the bar right after work…but we wouldn’t say no if He did ask….to come along….to the bar ( …hey Jesus, you be my wingman, watch the master… “Excuse me Miss Do you have a map? I just keep getting lost in your eyes” … stop laughing scott…get down off the chair and lets see you do better.)
- Black Friday: “as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the nineteenth century, where it was associated with a financial crisis in 1869 in the United States. The earliest known reference to “Black Friday” to refer to the day after Thanksgiving was made in a 1966 publication” (Wikipedia )
- Friday Night Arrives Without a Suitcase, the “Friday line” in Lady Madonna by the Beatles. Nothing funny or clever about that, cept it was the Beatles.
Just so no one can accuse me of pasting videos and Wikipedia and calling it a Doctrine Post, here is the lesson from today’s Post as presented by the ‘other two’:
… well you certainly gave it a good effort and everyone feels that you have been under a lot of strain, so why don’t you just stop trying so hard and everything will magically, possibly miraculously allow the spotlight to shift to another spot for a while, can I recommend the Secessionist Rag…everyone will think so much more of your little blog here once they have had a…little rest?
…FCUK yeah!! brewskies!! so what if I spelled it wrong its in caps!!! YEAH….!!..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEMjeYPfqSg
About clarkscottroger
Ah yes, my man Joe Jackson.
Yep, those long gone Friday nights. Meet my roommate after work and zip down to the Bon Vue for last call. For those of you youngin’s the Bon Vue was the place to be. Don’t know about now. And, btw, it’s just a short drive from where? Wakefield! Oh yeah, and following my then boyfriend who was a bass player in a band called Tangent with his band to the all of the local (and not so local) venues feeling pretty cool about myself. “…oh, you’re with the band?” Damn straight. (Being a scott and all…) Any of you locals remember Tangent?
But that was a long time ago. So I will pose this question: Do Friday’s still rule as we get older or is it just another night? Just askin’
*older as being 40+
Riddle; what’s 6x 3x 3 ft and weighs 600 lbs.?
– an old roger in a bathtub ( try not to go there )
– a clark and a scott in a jacuzzi ( don’t go there either )
– the ” Atari Ping Pong ” game in the front foyer of the Bon Vue, just to the left of the foosball table; Progenitors Clark, Scott, and Roger presiding; Wed-Sun, 6-8pm EST. Probably spent more money on those two than I ever made playing there.
– I remember the name ” Tangent”, don’t recall if I ever saw them. I might have.
– Instead of 40+, how about multiples of 20?
I’m thinking this is a literary version of Pong. Simple enough on the surface, one “ball” in motion and two “paddles” that will casue the “ball” to rebound in a different, but hopefully better direction…’cept it speeds up…and the angle is just a little screwy…and it still doesn’t add up to anything.
“a clark and a scott in a jacuzzi“…I would submit that that is physio-medically impossible. The clark would be afraid that the bubbling action would get too boisterous and threaten to draw attention to the clark ( who within the premise of this explantion is voluntarily entering a jacuzzi) and….and… the scott…the scott would either try to talk to the jacuzzi (like the totally ‘ thats not funny! thats so adolescent” however still funny) concept of motor-boating, ‘cept with a bath tub full of water. But being a scott it will not matter, until, that is, they notice the clark…
…and then. well let’s just say that the “theoretical” clark will probably have to spend some time in a psychiatric ward.
poor soul. what was he thinking?
Is Brenda Lee a scott or what? Look at those eyes. And you could tell she HATED being upstaged by those puppies. But why did they dress her up to look like a pie-wagon? Such a sexy face—and then you see that drab fat girl’s outfit. eeewww. I frequented to Bon Zoo frequently. Saw Stormin’ Norman and Suzie there. Saw The Banana Bunkhouse Boys lots of times. I think Rizz played there a few times too. Got good and drunk there every time I went. Got…”lucky” a few times too. (“Lucky” Sheesh! I gotta say “lucky”, ’cause if I say “laid”, Clark’s librarian alter-ego would delete that shit faster than a New York minu… ( You’re right, lol )