Today's Goals (Bent over/doubled up laughing already. "Goals." I slay me!):
Not to buy anything, leave the bunker, or put on pants!!
— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) November 29, 2013
Today's Goals (Bent over/doubled up laughing already. "Goals." I slay me!):
Not to buy anything, leave the bunker, or put on pants!!
— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) November 29, 2013
6 comments:
I put on pants and drove my dad over to my sister's house for dinner.
Didn't buy a thing, though. Didn't buy anything yesterday, either.
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I bought booze.
And some pillz.
Is that economic stimulus?
It was a scam from the very beginning:
3. The date of Thanksgiving was, indirectly, determined by holiday shoppers.
From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, in a custom started by US President Abraham Lincoln, the president would declare a "day of thanks giving" on the last Thursday in November. This could either fall on the fourth or fifth Thursday in the month.
But in 1939, a funny thing happened - the last Thursday happened to be the last day in November. Retailers, worried about the shortened holiday shopping season, petitioned then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to declare the holiday a week earlier - which he did.
For the next three years, Thanksgiving was known derisively as "Franksgiving" and celebrated on different days in different parts of the country.
Finally, at the end of 1941, a joint resolution from Congress cleared up the matter. From then on, Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November - guaranteeing an extra week of shopping before Christmas.
[Western Union telegraph protesting Thanksgiving change]
Mr Roosevelt received a barrage of messages protesting his capitulation to the will of retailers
It's Always A Scam Editor:
Why on Thurs. but not Fri. too?
Someone's getting stimulated, while stimulating the economy.
Hadda spend bus fare Thurs.
More Achievement!
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School Spirit Editor:
Har har, I had that R. Crumb poster in kawl-lege, & shared it w/ the others on my floor by putting it in one of the stalls in the bathroom. Some asshole stole it, & I've hated this world & everyone in it since.
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