Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

感恩節快樂 

GOBBLE, GOBBLE   咕嚕，咕嚕嚕嚕嚕咕嚕嚕嚕嚕---

每年感恩節我們火雞命就不保，我們真是憤怒鳥呀！

 

火雞價年年漲，我們顧客才是蠢火雞呀！

OUCH, holiday travel has arrived--

哎呀，假日擠飛機的日子又來啦----

我是火雞，叫我鴨.蠢！

叫你躲不聽，你才蠢得像火雞

感恩節火雞慘案

 A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

查理布朗的感恩節卡通

More Thanksgiving classics:

更多感恩節經典卡通：

Black Friday     黑色星期五

根據維基百科，自由的百科全書
According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29:

黑色星期五，顧客血拼瘋狂搶購.

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The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation was made: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss from January through November, and "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or "in the black". For large retail chains like Walmart, their net income is positive starting from January 1, and Black Friday can boost their year to date net profit from $14 billion to $19 billion.


For many years, it was common for retailers to open at 6:00 a.m., but in the late 2000s many had crept to 5:00 or even 4:00. This was taken to a new extreme in 2011, when several retailers (including Target, Kohl's, Macy's, Best Buy, and Bealls) opened at midnight for the first time. In 2012, Walmart and several other retailers announced that they would open most of their stores at 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day (except in states where opening on Thanksgiving is prohibited due to blue laws, such as Massachusetts where they still opened around midnight), prompting calls for a walkout among some workers. Black Friday shopping is known for attracting aggressive crowds, with annual reports of assaults, shootings, and throngs of people trampling on other shoppers in an attempt to get the best deal on a product before supplies run out.

黑色星期五的名字起源於1961年美國費城，最初是用來描述發生在感恩節第二天瘋狂購物產生的嚴重的行人和交通問題。1975後這日子也成了美國聖誕新年購物促銷的起跑日.

多年以來，感恩節後許多商家提早在早上 6 點開店，但在2000年以後商家開始更提早營業，從早上 5 點，甚至 4 點 。2011年，大百貨業者（Target, Kohl's, Macy's, Best Buy, and Bealls）開始在午夜開門營業， 2012年，他們宣布將在感恩節當晚 8 點開門營業. 瘋啦！