"Over the hump" is what hump day means. But I've always thought of it as the bottom of a trough. After Wednesday, it goes uphill in a happy way towards Friday with Saturday and Sunday at the mountain peak. What about Monday? There's a sharp cliff with Monday and the descent slides down to Wednesday and lands with a bump.
Hump Day is an expression of office environments. Once over the hump, people get to coast into the weekend. This had to do with the 'drudgery of the workweek.' It came into vogue in the 1960s.
Hump Day points to "Thank Goodness It's Friday". It was in the 1980s that this got into full swing. Is that because "Thank Goodness It's Friday" restaurants showed up? The actual expression first appeared in print in the 1940s as Thank God It's Friday.
I wondered about each day having a slang expression, so I went to the urban thesaurus. This is undoubtedly a mistake for a person of my age. There are many expressions associated with each day of the week. But for someone my age, they are a "stream of consciousness" list of words, letters and acronyms that seems to scroll forever. Here's the link for Wednesday. Could you imagine that all these words could be associated with Wednesday?Things like: cool, food, ok, ratchet, sleep, whataburger wednesday, mike, fishco - explanations make little sense. But then I need to repeat I shouldn't be attempting to make sense of these at my age.
I find one amusing. It is pineapple wednesday - "The first Wednesday of the month. To celebrate, one wears clothing depicting pineapples, eats pineapples, drinks pineapple juice, sings/dances to the Pineapple Wednesday song, and does anything she/he can think of that relates to pineapples."
I should have gone straight to the urban dictionary. Its entry for Wednesday is :
The day that you wear a spiderman suit and goggles then scream at yourself in the mirror.
2. The day that you wear pink. "It is Wednesday my dudes, aaaaaaAAAAAHHHHHHHH" "On Wednesdays we wear pink"
Some of my images of Dahlias - in the Dahlia a Day series.
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