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Dignified Pauper
11-22-2005, 05:58 PM
What are you hoping to get?

I am going to best buy at about 6am to wait outside and hopefully get a 379.99 notebook of decent calibur and then shop the rest of the day for random gifts with my best friend.

What are your plans?

Oh, for the deals go here! (www.bf2005.com)!

The Summoner of Leviathan
11-22-2005, 05:59 PM
What is Black Friday?

Craig
11-22-2005, 05:59 PM
I have no idea what you're talking about.

edczxcvbnm
11-22-2005, 05:59 PM
I am going to get DVDs and maybe a new hard drive. I have only an 80 gig and I keep maxing it out. Maybe get a fast DVD burner...that is DUAL LAYERED! Maybe a game or 2 if it is on sale...microwave?

For those not in the know. Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. It is called Black Friday because that is "the day" that retailers go out of the red ink and into the black ink.

Karl
11-22-2005, 06:02 PM
ive never seen anything on sale in black ink

Alive-Cat
11-22-2005, 06:03 PM
Oh...then I'm not going to buy anything...or do anything...In FACT, I'm going to erase my memory about what this "black friday" is and live in peacefull ignorance every "black friday" we ever have again...

Psychotic
11-22-2005, 06:07 PM
My plans for Friday? Dispose of the evidence. They can't convict me of what they can't prove. :)

Dignified Pauper
11-22-2005, 06:07 PM
every friday after thanksgiving, retailers give amazing deals and sooooo it's just a mad rush of shoopers. I've seen children abandoned by their parents, old women knocked over, and just a riot in front of walmart. It's definitely a hellacious day.

It's my uncle bill's favorite day of the year. It's the start of christmas as well.

Yamaneko
11-22-2005, 06:08 PM
I'll probably sleep in and not care.

Karl
11-22-2005, 06:09 PM
as im sure many people will do im going to do nothing different from an average day because im broke because i have no job and i dont have parents that spoil me

Dignified Pauper
11-22-2005, 06:12 PM
Um, most kids don't go out on that day, unless it's with their parents.

I'm getting myself a laptop because I need one, and then I'm gonna try to buy other gifts.

edczxcvbnm
11-22-2005, 06:15 PM
ive never seen anything on sale in black ink

You didn't use that brain you...dumb-dumb...This is in the retailors books. Red Ink = Debt and losing money. Black Ink = Profit.

Most retailors go the whole year in red ink and then come back big on Black Friday through Christmas....or so they say :shifty:

Karl
11-22-2005, 06:35 PM
no one needs a laptop, and sorry ed if im not the most educated person when it comes to sales :eep:

Old Manus
11-22-2005, 06:50 PM
I learned the red and black ink thing from SimCity :)

Karl
11-22-2005, 06:56 PM
when i saw that old manus posted i was expecting something like

LIEK ZOMG IEM LIEK GONNAE BAI AL KIENDS OV CMPOOTER TINGZ

i was suprised by the lack of sarcasm :)

lol Z0MG is filtered

Behold the Void
11-22-2005, 07:23 PM
I intend to stay the hell away from any malls. Most my Christmas shopping will be done online anyways. I HATE shopping during weekends, and I know that Black Friday will be infinitely worse.

Primus Inter Pares
11-22-2005, 07:30 PM
This is where living in a place that doesn't celebrate Thanksgivin can make me feel infinately superior :cool:

Venom
11-22-2005, 07:38 PM
What is Black Friday?

Black Friday is When Jesus rises from the dead to feast on the souls of the living, thats why we lure him back to sleep with christmas carols:D

Old Manus
11-22-2005, 07:49 PM
when i saw that old manus posted i was expecting something like

LIEK great googly moogly IEM LIEK GONNAE BAI AL KIENDS OV CMPOOTER TINGZ

i was suprised by the lack of sarcasm :)

lol Z0MG is filtered
You just don't get the subtle joke inside there

Dignified Pauper
11-22-2005, 08:14 PM
Black Friday is When Jesus rises from the dead to feast on the souls of the living, thats why we lure him back to sleep with christmas carols:D

And by spending all our money on materialistic consumer goods to make our lives happier.

Rye
11-22-2005, 08:16 PM
Black Friday scares me. I prefer to stay home that day and decorate my Christmas Tree. xD

Shoeberto
11-22-2005, 08:38 PM
Some friends and I are planning on heading down to Best Buy and CompUSA to check out some of the deals.

Traitorfish
11-22-2005, 08:44 PM
Wasn't Black Friday some sort of disaster or stock market crash?
Or was that Bloody Sunday? I think they're different.
There was two Bloody Sundays, you know. One in Ireland and one in Russia. Goddam imperialist pigdogs and their unimaginative names! :mad2:

SeeDRankLou
11-22-2005, 09:10 PM
I'm fairly certain that was Black Tuesday, or Thursday, or something, just not Friday.

I will be at my friend's house, who lives a block from the Galleria (a really big mall). I will then walk to the Galleria instead of wait in the 45 minute traffic that will happen. I will then shop to my heart's content and probably only leave with a shirt or something :tongue:

The Summoner of Leviathan
11-22-2005, 09:12 PM
It was Black Thursday when the stock market crashed in 1929. If I remember it was in October?

Shlup
11-22-2005, 09:58 PM
Last year I went with BJ to Circuit City when it opened (free orange juice and donuts!). He got a 250GB hard drive for $8 and I got a DVD for $5. xD

This year the guys at his work (PC Club) are having a LAN party so we're going to that.

Resha
11-22-2005, 10:00 PM
Sleep? I hope. :( I always wanna sleep. :D

Zeldy
11-22-2005, 10:11 PM
I geuss its an american thing..?

SammieBabe
11-22-2005, 10:12 PM
I plan on sleeping in and staying as far way from any retail store as possible...

Mittopotahis
11-22-2005, 10:12 PM
This is where living in a place that doesn't celebrate Thanksgivin can make me feel infinately superior :cool:

Shoeberto
11-22-2005, 10:13 PM
I geuss its an american thing..?
Yep. It's a day after Thanksgiving tradition.

Zeldy
11-22-2005, 10:13 PM
Yep. It's a day after Thanksgiving tradition.
Whats thanksgiving? :x

Shlup
11-22-2005, 10:18 PM
When English settlers landed in America they were gonna starve and die, but the natives saved them by teaching them how to grow corn and crap. So they celebrated by having a feast and then killing all the natives. So every year we duplicate that feast with our families.

Dignified Pauper
11-22-2005, 10:20 PM
Schlup has answered that question, however, she left out the fact that we've killed most of the natives and so we've left out that part and just have a big feast and talk about shooting natives and how much fun our ancestors must have had in doing so.

SammieBabe
11-22-2005, 11:21 PM
And now the natives live on small reservations and own casinos...

eestlinc
11-22-2005, 11:29 PM
I'm going to pick my friend up at the airport and go drink beer.

theundeadhero
11-22-2005, 11:38 PM
I'll probably knock down a few trees.

Venom
11-22-2005, 11:51 PM
When English settlers landed in America they were gonna starve and die, but the natives saved them by teaching them how to grow corn and crap. So they celebrated by having a feast and then killing all the natives. So every year we duplicate that feast with our families.

Oh Really? I duplicate the events.:D

fire_of_avalon
11-23-2005, 02:11 AM
Black Tuesday = Day of the Stock Market Crash, October 1929, and also, some refer to Sept. 11, 2001 as Black Tuesday. Also, there has been a Black Monday, because of the 1987 stock market crash.

And trust me, the sales are NOT all they're cracked up to be.

As for me, I will be going to work at five am.

Nino Brown
11-23-2005, 02:47 AM
I may go pick up various computer related items.

I may sleep.

Dignified Pauper
11-23-2005, 03:42 AM
Black Tuesday = Day of the Stock Market Crash, October 1929, and also, some refer to Sept. 11, 2001 as Black Tuesday. Also, there has been a Black Monday, because of the 1987 stock market crash.

And trust me, the sales are NOT all they're cracked up to be.

As for me, I will be going to work at five am.

That's because the sales are better than they are cracked up to be

Rase
11-23-2005, 04:09 AM
Sleeping in, than going about my usually weekday-without-school-or-work routine, since there's no store remotely close to walking distance from my house.

DMKA
11-23-2005, 05:55 AM
Black Thursday? God I'm sick of racism.

Xaven
11-23-2005, 06:09 AM
Since I've blown off all my birthday money at Target during the past few months... nothing. Why shop with no money? :cry: