[PRCo] Re: Thanksgiving Weekend Hobby Show

[Joshua Dunfield]

2009/11/18 Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net>:
> Just a comment that "Black Friday" is a Pittsburghism.  People in the
> Midwest draw a blank stare if you say, "Black Friday".
>
> Bob 11/18/09

Really?  A Google News search turns up stories from (at minimum) New
York, Missouri, Kansas and Oregon.

Now, there is a much more obscure usage that's a Pittsburghism: it
originated in the CMU computer science department, meaning "grad
student performance evaluation meeting".

-j.