[RodeoRanch]

Is bullshit.

Who's responsible for such a terrible idea?

Let us find him/her and lay upon them a beating. Even if they're dead. I have a shovel. Will travel.

[Slum]

Dude, aren't you the history major? The 5-day workweek (or at least Sundays off) was a direct result result of unfair labor practices that exploited the working man....

Right? I recall something like that.

[RodeoRanch]

Yeah, I've a history degree. But it's a wide world. A man can't study everything.

I majored in beer and nurses.

This post has been edited by RodeoRanch: 24 April 2009 - 12:39 AM

[Slow Ben]

I have a history minor and the only thing i really remember was Illinois became a state in 1818. Not really, but you get the idea.

They didnt offer nurses at EIU so i studied Beer and Cheerleaders.

[Mentalist]

I think it has something to do with the Bible... so, Moses is the guy to blame.

[Slow Ben]

I think your close, it has something to do with the Jewish Sabbath day traditionally being from fri night to sat night or something like that. But i've been wrong before.

[Slum]

Huh, I thought they taught you guys everything that ever happened, ever....

[Slow Ben]

They did, it just got replaced with random things like, "which bar has beer specials on tuesdays between 4-6".

So you understand, of course.

[HoosierDaddy]

I think it evolved from this. Sundays were taken off because of the Sabbath, and thus Sunday Blue Laws were first passed. This is why you can't buy booze on Sunday in many states, still. Jewish owners, forced to close their stores on Sunday, found that by closing them on Saturday there was no inherent religious bias and thus could pass constitutional standards.

[Slow Ben]

Just think, if the Jews had decided sabbath lasted one day longer we might have 4 day workweeks instead of 5. (and yes, i know it doesnt work like that)

Somebody call Doc Brown!

[Malaese]

Slow Ben, on Apr 23 2009, 05:43 PM, said:

I have a history minor and the only thing i really remember was Illinois became a state in 1818. Not really, but you get the idea.

They didnt offer nurses at EIU so i studied Beer and Cheerleaders.

I went to EIU, I miss the bar across the corner from the dorm where all the athlete's stayed, what was it called?

[Slow Ben]

Marty's!!! And they did in fact have happy hour on Fridays from 4-6.

When were you there?

[HoosierDaddy]

My response was really confusing: Christians made sure they were closed on Sunday, Jews made sure they were closed on Saturday. At least, that's some part of it in the U.S. That is more based around blue laws.

The industrial revolution, increased productivity of the assembly line, and general technological advances of the 20th system, along with rising wages has resulted in less time per good, and less time necessary to make a living wage.

[Malaese]

93-99, 4 undergrad and 2 grad. Marty's was awesome, in the summer they'd do 2 dollar cover and 1 dollar everything. I played so much pool there.

[Slum]

Google tells me it is Henry Ford who is responsible. Not sure if I believe that.

I still remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire documentary from Am. Hist.....bad stuff, that.

[Slow Ben]

That sounds about right HD.

So Rodeo, you can blame the Christians and the Jews.

[RodeoRanch]

I might need another shovel.

[HoosierDaddy]

Lol. Just do what we always do.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

A curse upon the beast who invented Thursdays! They are a pointless waste between Wed and Fri.

Now, since Thursday was named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder, Norse is Scandinavian, Scandinavian is Viking, Viking is Danish-



APT YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

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[Macros]

I personally blame brood

(just for mezla )