Black Friday

[aggienaut]

The following are known as "Black Friday":
1887, Nov 11 - AKA The Haymarket Affair - Four anarchists hung without evidence n Chicago for the recent deaths of police officers.
1919, Jan 31 - AKA The Battle of George Square - Riot in Glasgow
1939, Jan 13 - Fires devastate Australia
1944, Oct 13 - Canadian unit "the Black Watch" devastated in battle
1945, Feb 09 - Allied forces lose badly in an air battle over Norway
1978, Sep 08 - Massacre of protesters in Iran
2004, Aug 13 - Crackdown on peaceful protestors in the Maldives.
Ongoing, Last Fri in Nov - Day of the heaviest shopping of the year in the United States.

   Which of the above is ridiculously unlike the others?

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Part II
Office Manager Girl: "What're you looking at? Maldives? I thought Black Friday was about shopping?"
Me: "Well no, see this list? These are all major massacres or events which are known as 'Black Friday'. I'm making a little lunch break blog post about how ridiculous it is to equate shopping with massacres of protestors!"
Office Manager Girl: "[thinks for a moment] yeah, I try to avoid shopping on Black Friday. But I really needed to go to Mervyns... [proceeds to talk for ten minutes about her shopping travails]"
   Something tells me she didn't get my point.

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Additional Note

Comments

Re: Black / Bloody

[birgitriddle]

I get Black Monday and Black Tuesday confused since Black Monday was some financial crisis in the 1980's and Black Tuesday was the Stock Market crash of 1929.

Re: Black / Bloody

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

In College there was a particular house where there were a lot of parties. In order to remember the address my friend called it "The Stock Market Crash / Invasion of Poland House" (2938). I thought it was the nerdiest way to remember an address ever ... but I never forgot the address!

Re: Black / Bloody

[birgitriddle]

I approve of this method.

You can tell I'm a history major.