Talk:Thursday
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I reverted "and United States" because as I understand it (I'm not American myself), U.S. Federal elections (and many state and local elections) are held on Tuesdays, particularly the "Tuesday after the first Monday in November". See http://www.fec.gov/pages/faqvdayeprocedures.htm .
If this is wrong, feel free to put it back.
More on what days various countries vote on would be good.
- I have changed In the United Kingdom, elections are traditionally held on Thursdays. This was to ensure a high turnout, as people would have spent their previous weeks wages, paid the previous Friday as this "explanation" has to me the ring of an urban myth (unless anyone can come up with evidence from the 1930s of this consideration being genuinely taken into account by Prime Ministers -- who choose the date).
- Ontario, by the way, is an example of a territory which does fix Thursday as election day by statute
- The great majority of European countries (the Netherlands being a notable exception) vote on a Sunday. - Picapica 21:31, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
--rbrwr
No, you're right... I just blanked.. and I'm from the US.. I was thinking to myself "Oh, we have them on Tuesdays too!"... forgetting that I was looking at an article on Thursday. :) --Dante Alighieri 22:54 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
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[edit] R
Anyone know why Thursday is R on a MTWRF setup of the week?
The only thing I could find was from Wikipedia's article on the letter R: "In calendars, R is often used as an abbreviation for Thursday instead of T, to avoid confusion with Tuesday" Blorg 13:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
maybe because Thursday sounds like "R's day". don't take this seriously. hehe. -janyu86
[edit] So Happy It's Thursday
Until I read this article mere minutes ago, I have never heard this expression. Am I the only one who hasn't heard of it?
I went here to see if I could find it.
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=shit
But i couldn't.
I then did a Google search and "So Happy It's Thursday" came up only 806 times. Many of those times were either blogs or redundant pages. I saw few, if any reputable sources, unlike when "Thank God It's Friday" is typed in. Do we really need S.H.I.T on this page? Masterhatch 9 July 2005
[edit] Name
Isn't thursday Named for Thor? H0D_G 06:25, 20 May 2006
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- Yes, I think that's so. In German (which English is closely related to) it's "Donnerstag", meaning "day of thunder", or "thunder day". I can also honestly see no phonetic relation between "Thur" and "Jupiter", but the similarities between "Thur" and "Thor" are striking. --beast66625 23:50, 2 October 2006
- Why are you asking this here instead of, gee, I dunno, maybe reading the first paragraph of the article for which this is a talk page, which specifically explains that this is so and provides the relevant etymology?
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- The contemporary name Thursday comes from the Old English Þunresdæg, meaning "Day of Thunor"
- Thunor (or more accurately, Þunor) being the Anglo-Saxon name for the deity for which the Old Norse name is Thorr and who is usually named in Modern English Thor --Yst 10:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
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- To be fair, the article also mentions Jupiter's Day and that's not so obvious. You need to read the Jupiter (mythology) article and make the connection that Thunor/Thor and Jupiter are all thunder gods with the Romance languages sticking to the Jupiter root for naming Thursday. -- Solipsist 10:50, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Must-See Thursday
Would it be worth noting that the most popular television shows eventually make their way to the 8:00-10:00 Thursday block of programming? (And is this only applicable to the United States?) What is the reason for this? Is it just that people are excited for Friday, so they want to start the weekend early by kicking back with a few sitcoms on Thursday? --Birdhombre 14:34, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Pete Incaviglia
Is the Pete Incaviglia incident really known as Black Thursday? Joyous (talk) 01:49, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
