BS: Wearing Red on Fridays

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Pauline L
Date: 30 Dec 04 - 03:16 AM

When I was in high school, in the 60s, people said that if you wore red on Friday, you were a loose woman or worse. However, our school colors were red and black, and occasionally, we had to wear red and black on a Friday.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 01:40 PM

Any day.

and just to make people wonder, red hat as well as red shoes.

Don't ask............

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Cluin
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 01:29 PM

SINSULL, I heard it was "yellow on Thursdays" as the code for being gay. And "Surrender, Dorothy!" as code words for coming out of the closet (though why you'd need a code word for that, I don't know).

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Kim C
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 12:38 PM

Red's my favorite color. I wear it all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Alba
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 07:55 AM

...and those that seem to think they are "educated" should apply some manners when replying to a post. Qui docet discit.


With no Humor whatsoever
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: GUEST,Humored
Date: 29 Dec 04 - 03:48 AM

No war is this country yet...

Hitler's movement was socialist moved. Liberals were repressed. However, there is a big difference between the liberals of the past and liberals now. Today's liberals are more like socialists. Hitler despised conservative christians. Please, if you are going to make an analogy to Bush and Hitler, read a little history and you won't sound like such uneducated fool.
http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~salient/issues/00comm/colbnazi.html

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 03:43 PM

Helo Flash Company and Mr Red. I'm a sort of Geordie/Meggie from Cleethorpes, but I know that expression is/was pretty widely used.
"Arl fur corts and nee nickas" is however usually credited to North East UK.
Excuse thread drift.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Blackcatter
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 12:46 PM

The problem with this is stated at the end of the article, unless there's a national well-known movement, how do we know that people are saying when they wear red?

Here's a novel idea - why not wear a pin or a t-shirt or something that states your feelings. Think you can't do that at work? Well, on your way home stop by the busiest intersetion in your town with a big ass sign at stand there for an hour.


Frankly, the time has ended for polite discourse on the issues. The Bush wing of the Republican Party is more similar to the Nazi Party in the 1930s that you can imagine. If they win in November, there will be war in this country.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 12:33 PM

Flash Company - trust me - red hat no knickers is universally english, red shoes ditto.

So I must be wearing -1 knicker!!!

the expression is a reference to spending all the money on visible ostentation and leaving the unseen unworn.

Now what would Flash Company be baring whilst bearing the banana bandana? (presumeably on a Thursday)

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Flash Company
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 07:53 AM

Fat B*****d
Are you a Cheshire lad by any chance ? That particular version of the insult was in use around Northwich in my distant youth.
Got used a lot when the uniform for the new Girl's Grammar School in the early '50s included a red hat!

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 05:22 AM

"How silly. If you want to take a stand, send correspondence to your senators, reps, or newspaper"

Of course. I agree. These are also important. But the point of this venture is more about a show of solidarity. Sometimes one feels very much alone and working in a vacume. I think this is just a way that one can see with one's one eyes that there is a growing movement that won't be stopped.

I also remember that in Denmark, the King and his family wore a yellow star on their coats to show their solidarity with the Jews during WW2 who were being forced to wear a sign of their "tribe". I will bet it made a difference to those who saw or knew of it.

Consider red to be our tribal colour. We ARE a tribe, and need to be both seen and heard, especially now.

Anyway, it's a small thing, but sometimes, like the breath from a butterfly's wings...can be the beginning of a hurricane.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 04:59 AM

Do they, I wonder, eat their own words?

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 05:44 PM

Did you hear the NPR interview with a spokeswoman for Heinz ketchup? Apparently Bush's folks are spending some of their campaign money to make a product that is to compete with Heinz Ketchup during this political season. Some kind of "All American Ketchup." They're trying to take on Teresa Heinz's late-husband's family name as an opponent. The Heinz family no longer has any control over the corporation, and though the name has a Germanic sounding ring to it it is an entirely American company (and perhaps the Bushites are playing on T. Heinz' accent, even though she's from Mozambique). Leave it to Dubya to one-up Ronnie Reagan and once again turn ketchup into a political issue.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 05:29 PM

I've seen that ... places selling Bushburgers and Kerryburgers (or equivalent) just prior to elections. What if your candidate burger had horseradish dressing SRS?

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 05:23 PM

I was getting ready to freeze garden tomatoes and splashed some seeds and sauce on my shorts--but I don't consider that circumstance one that anyone will recognise as a political statement. Too bad I don't care for horseradish or we could get together for a little political activism. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 05:20 PM

Back in the 1950s in West Central Illinois, at St. Francis Solanus grade school, it was "yellow on Thursday means you're a fruit."

We had no idea what a "fruit" was, but we figured that it was something impolite and none of us wanted to be one.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 05:15 PM

only Fridays???????

Sat Sun and BH Mondays too.

Ain't never started a revolution.

Met plenty of resistence (but I digress).

Hey Fat B******d - I ain't telling, but I sure got plenty of hats.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 03:40 PM

like dijon-horseradish, all by itself it is not enough,
but as one way to express onself, encourage dialog, etc.
wearing red can be a good piece in the puzzle...and to
be participatiing in an historical statement is empowering.
To take a stand as has been done in the past puts you in a
continuum that offers credence to your communication. It is
a quiet strength and one that some can do even if too shy to
speak up in other ways...every little bit helps!! PUtting on
my red hat right now~!

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 02:58 PM

I'm now wearing dijon-horseradish sauce from my Subway sandwich. Damn.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 02:56 PM

How silly. If you want to take a stand, send correspondence to your senators, reps, or newspaper.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: GUEST,Ellenpoly
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 05:35 AM

What the heck? It's Friday and I'm wearing red.

Then again, I wear a bit of red most days.

In the end, I guess I'm with open mike on this. It couldn't hurt.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 04:02 AM

Red 'at, no drawers anybody ?

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 02:28 AM

it coudn't hurt!

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: JennyO
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 01:13 AM

Hmm. It just happens I'm wearing my red mudcat t shirt today. I wonder what that means?

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 07:53 PM

I think you're right Jim. I went to a Catholic high school with a green blazer as part of the uniform. We all dreaded thursdays on the A train.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 05:05 PM

I should have added: at the time I first heard of this plan, I mentioned it to my wife who is a peace/anti-Bush activist and regularly attends meetings of like-minded people. She said her group had discussed it, but they generally agree it's a dumb idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 05:02 PM

Sinsull: I think that bit of folklore was spread among school kids solely for the purpose of cruelly teasing other kids who inadvertently wore the (allegedly) wrong color on the (allegedly) wrong day. I doubt that there was ever any truth to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 04:08 PM

Good Lord! Wearing Green on Thursdays/Red On Fridays was code for coming out as gay in the early 60s. I had forgotten all about that.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: ddw
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 03:34 PM

I think it's part of a conspiracy to interrupt the world's communications net by overloading the internet with so many long, silly chain letters that there won't be any bandwidth left for meaningful communication. I agree with the attached critique; break this chain and stop these juvenile things.

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Ben Dover
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 12:12 PM

What a load of old cock.

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 12:00 PM

Mr Red always wears red on Fridays!

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 11:57 AM

Yeah, I heard about this several weeks ago. Then I wore red on a couple of Fridays and apparently nobody noticed, because nobody mentioned it. (I work in a very public place where lots of people see and talk to me.)

Subject: RE: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 11:38 AM

yep...Norway in the 40s was much different than the US or UK is now. The medium of communication is different and the populace is not NEARLY homogenous enough. Few people would notice....UNLESS the idea was picked up by major networks and publicized...like yellow ribbons for POWs.

Subject: BS: Wearing Red on Fridays
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 15 Jul 04 - 11:26 AM

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/wearred04.html

Any thoughts on this idea?

..xx..e