Finally Friday

He who laughs on Friday will cry on Sunday.
Jean Baptiste Racine (1639 - 1699), playwright

We have Manic Monday, which B2 wrote about here. But, I’ve listed a few items about Friday. In history, there have been a number of events known as Black Friday (what do you expect from The Misanthrope something happy?):

• Black Friday (1869) - a stock market crash in the United States
• Black Friday (1919) - a riot in Glasgow stemming from industrial unrest
• Black Friday (1939) - a day of devastating fires in Australia
• Black Friday (1978) - a massacre of protesters in Iran
• Black Friday (shopping) - the day after American Thanksgiving, one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
• Bloody Friday (July 21, 1972) – a day when more than 22 bombs planted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in and around Belfast, Ireland resulted in nine deaths and 130 seriously injured.
• Casual Friday – a day of dressing in jeans.
• Freaky Friday -- the name of three different movies with similar plots made by the Walt Disney Company where a teenage girl and her mother switch bodies and learn to understand each other better.
• TGIF – this is occurs on most Fridays unless one has to work on Saturday or has the misfortune to encounter a Black Friday.