MMeM, Vol. 8 Issue 34 – CyberMonday, Really?

Never Forget? Yeah, that didn’t last too long.

You know terms in popular culture have a way of coming around and never leaving. Today, Cyber Monday, is only one of the most recent offenders. What’s so inexplicable is the sheer idiocy which creates these “words” or “phrases”. Ok, I’d say that Cyber Monday is one of the few examples that makes a weak attempt at a cause for its existence.

People take Black Friday and have heard that the following Monday when we are all back at work is a big day for online shopping. Online or The Internet is substituted for by using “Cyber” which hasn’t been used since CyberSex back in the birth and Hey-days of AOL ChatRooms. Cyber please.

Of course the biggest and most overused of all of these made up word or phrases, Whrases, has to be anything adopting a suffix of “…GATE”. This really should stop. No one using this today has any idea what it means, where it came from, or anything about it. At best, they might connect “…GATE” to Nixon but have no idea why. The funniest part about that is that when WATERGATE happened, no one understood what in the hell was the real intent of the incident anyway. It’s still argued about today. In short, government backed people broke into some Democratic National Committee’s offices which, were at the time, Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. So when using a “GATEism” it really should be reserved for total confusion among liars, thieves, burglars, deep thoat informants, and career launching persons in media.

Anyway, I’m really surprised that Black Friday’s recent bleed-over into Thanksgiving Thursday hasn’t spawned any new terms. Grey Thursday? Anyone? No? And remember back in 2002, 2003 when you couldn’t even find a gas station open on Thanksgiving after 9/11 because it was family time dammit! If you needed gas you’d better find a pump that took credit cards and was left on for that matter. We were not going to take our families for granted again rather we were to really use and honor times like Thanksgiving as they were intended. There was to be no work, no shopping, no nothing. Never Forget?

Yeah, that didn’t last too long. How soon we either forget or move on like Americans do. I guess we gots to get back to bein’ Americans dammit.

Next year, which business will be a trend setters and open for Thanksgiving morning? It’ll be dubbed “Shades of Grey Thursday”.

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