To some, Thursday feels like a reminder that the week has been going on for far too long, but a more optimistic way of looking at is seeing it as the “beginning of the end” of the work week. While most of us are waiting for Friday, Thursday is often overlooked. Give some love to the forgotten day with these fun facts about Thursday! Thursday is the fourth day of the week according to the international standard ISO 8601. It is the fifth day of the week in countries that use the Sunday as the first day of the week in their calendar. In Christianity, there are two Thursdays of religious importance. First is Holy Thursday, which is the day before Good Friday and the day that the Last Supper was held.

In the cross media work Thursday's Fictions by Richard James Allen and Karen Pearlman, Thursday is the title character, a woman who tries to cheat the cycle of reincarnation to get a form of eternal life. Thursday's Fictions has been a stage production, a book, a film and an 3D online immersive world in Second Life. [19] This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Gabriel Syme, the main character, was given the title of Thursday in G. K. Chesterton's novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908). Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the character Arthur Dent says: "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays". A few minutes later the planet Earth is destroyed. In another Douglas Adams book, The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul (1988), one of the characters says to the character Thor, after whom the day was named: "I'm not used to spending the evening with someone who's got a whole day named after them". In Finland and Sweden, pea soup is traditionally served on Thursdays. [12] [13] Conventional weekly events [ edit ] The apostrophe is the main cause of confusion between the two words. Usually, the presence of an apostrophe indicates possession, such as: Kyle’s car broke down last week. But English does not use apostrophes when denoting possession in personal pronouns like our, her, his, their, and its. Need a little something to get you through the rest of a long, tiring week? Maybe some of these quotes about “Friday Eve” can help shine a little bit of positivity on you: Orange is a very important color in Thai and Buddhist culture, as monks wear orange robes to symbolize the flame of a burning fire and as a symbol of truth. 8. A good day to voteThe astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter (♃ ) is sometimes used to represent Thursday. In Roman mythology, Thor is called Jupiter. Yes, this God not only has a day of the week named after him, but also a planet. It seems like Jupiter has all the fun, doesn’t he? Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.” – APJ Abdul Kalam By the time Thursday rolls around, you stay in, and you work, and you don’t go out because it’s horrible.” – El-P

Here’s the rub: its (without an apostrophe) is a possessive pronoun, like his or her, for nouns that don’t have a defined gender. In contrast, it’s (with an apostrophe) is the shortened form, or contraction, of it is or it has. I don’t think your cumbersome solution of resorting to a calendar as often as that would be necessary with your system, is pragmatic. Being that the system I’ve described is flawless, and simple when followed, mine is the pragmatic solution. Hopefully you’ll come to understand these things over time and not find them confusing anymore. In Australia, most cinema movies premieres are held on Thursdays. Also, most Australians are paid on a Thursday, either weekly or fortnightly. Shopping malls see this as an opportunity to open longer than usual, generally until 9 pm, as most pay cheques are cleared by Thursday morning. In Judaism, Thursdays are considered auspicious days for fasting. The Didache warned early Christians not to fast on Thursdays to avoid Judaizing, and suggested Fridays instead.You may find English speakers using both these meanings, often depending on regional uses. So which is more correct, and how should you commonly understand these expressions? Actually the second sentence is more common, and for many English speakers more logical – because the coming Friday is usually referred to as this Friday. Lurker, Manfred. The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons, Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. p.57 Find sources: "Thursday"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) I am chronically unable sometimes to not just not know what day it is but the date, the month or even the year. There are a number of modern names imitating the naming of Thursday after an equivalent of "Jupiter" in local tradition.

To you things may sound stupid but to me “next Monday” is not logical (or absurd in your parlance) and something I’d never heard of until I moved countries. How many times have you thought it was Friday only for someone to ruin your mood by telling you it’s only Thursday? This is the kind of vibe we get from Thursday. Dictionary definition of “next”–“(of a time) coming immediately after the time of writing or speaking.” and While other countries may consider a day like Sunday more accessible for voting, in the United Kingdom voting on a Thursday has been around for centuries.

Naming Thursday - Thor’s Day

Did you know America declared its independence on a Thursday? Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776 – this was a Thursday. The astrologer and predictor of the future Nostradamus had some pretty wild things to say about Thursday. In one of his predictions, he claimed that a powerful leader would terrorize the East and make Thursday his celebration day. To take the same logic to our “next Friday” question. Next Friday will always mean the next Friday in the queue, whether it be tomorrow or six days from now. To refer to the Friday after next Friday, then it must be Friday After Next, and so on. No ambiguity there. To say “this Friday” without actually specifying which Friday you are referring to is a corruption of the meaning of meaning, and there fore has no meaning. Reply Not only did Da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, he also sketched early drawings of the car, plane and machine gun. He really was before his time in so many ways. What about Thursday? That’s when Da Vinci was born! 20. The dark prediction for Thursday