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  • dinkum commented on the word blue Monday

    WORD: blue Monday
       
    DEFINITION: ' People who had horrible jobs during the week used to call Monday "Blue Monday" sometimes, though, because they hated to return to work after a day of rest.' -- Kurt Vonnegut.
       
    EXAMPLES:
        
    (1) ' "Our company began as The Robo-Magic Corporation of America in 1934. It had three employees in the beginning and its mission was to design and manufacture the first fully automatic washing machine for use in the home. You will find the motto of that washing machine on the corporate emblem at the top of the stock certificate." 

        
    ' The emblem consisted of a Greek goddess on an ornate chaise longue. She held a flagstaff from which a long pennant streamed. Here is what the pennant said:
       
    ' <b><i> "GOODBYE    BLUE     MONDAY"   </i></b>   
     
    ' The motto of the old Robo-Magic washing machine cleverly confused two separate ideas people had about Monday. One idea was that women traditionally did their laundry on Monday. Monday was simply washday, and not an especially depressing day on that account.

    ' People who had horrible jobs during the week used to call Monday "Blue Monday" sometimes, though, because they hated to return to work after a day of rest. When Fred T. Barry made up the Robo-Magic motto as a young man, he pretended that Monday was called "Blue Monday" because doing the laundry disgusted and exhausted women.
      
    ' The Robo-Magic was going to cheer them up. '

    --- 1973. KURT VONNEGUT. Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye Blue Monday. Chapter 21 (Pages 242 - 243).

    (2) ' Harry LeSabre was entitled to talk about combat. He had been in actual combat in a war. Dwayne hadn't been in combat. He was a civilian employee of the United States Army Air Corps during the Second World War. One time he got to paint a message on a five-hundred-pound bomb which was going to be dropped on Hamburg, Germany. This was it:

    ' "GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY"  '

    --- 1973. KURT VONNEGUT. Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye Blue Monday. Chapter 4 (Page 43).

    February 20, 2014