[PRCo] Re: Thanksgiving Weekend Hobby Show

[BobDietrich]

Maybe retail stores in Chicago are never in the black the day after
Thanksgiving.  :-)



-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Bob
Rathke
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:29 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Thanksgiving Weekend Hobby Show

My ex-Pittsburgh family here has been commenting on this subject for the 
past 15 years.  "Black Friday" is not a term heard on Chicago TV news around

Thanksgiving time.

Maybe the term is starting to spread from Pittsburgh.

Bob 11/18/09

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Dunfield" <joshua.dunfield at gmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:21 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Thanksgiving Weekend Hobby Show


> 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.
>
>