I’m at the mall the other day and walk by the “Hallmark” card store when I see it. A sign saying, “Sweetest Day is October 20th”
Since when is “Sweetest Day” any kind of holiday? Is business so BAD that you have to go and start making up your own fucking stupid holiday? Why bother? You already have your FUCKING CHRISTMAS PROMOTIONS out well before Halloween.
Tell you what. Why don’t all of you Hallmark exec’s go find a nice, thoughtful, “Sweetest Day” card… and shove it up your anthrax-laced shit hole!
God help me… I HATE HATE HATE commercialism.
Geez, is Sweetest Day coming up so soon? I’ve got to get to Hallmark’s and pick up some cards. It’s okay, though; I had to go anyway to get a birthday card for the cat.
I’ll bet that you’re the sort of curmudgeon who isn’t going to give your sweetie a box of Kleenex[sup]tm[/sup] and a Hallmark[sup]tm[/sup]card tomorrow for National Nostril Day.
Don’t forget today is National Boss Day [sub]no, really it is…[/sub] so get your slavedriver a new bullhorn and whip for those important department meetings!
Dragwyr I bet you don’t even care that this is national e-card month either, do you ? Prove it you say. Go here and check it out. http://www.bluemountain.com/
I hate the concept of Sweetest Day, as well, but it ain’t recent. I remember it being advertised and “celebrated” as far back as 93 or 94. This link states that it originated in Cleveland about 60 years ago. Interestingly enough, it wasn’t originally a romantic holiday but rather one to celebrate poor, neglected and dispossesed people.
I don’t get it. Is Sweetest Day for people you think are sweet? If so, is is oriented towards romantic-sweet or cute-sweet, e.g. kids? Or is it a day for giving sweets, like chocolate or candy? Or is it literally the “Sweetest” day of the year, when you should be really nice to people? Or does it refer to the slang term “Sweet,” e.g. “good, serendipidous, or profitable?”
If they’re going to invent holidays, explain them, dammit!
Actually, according the a number of sources, this idiotic holiday is about fifty or sixty years old. Of course, according to some sources, Abner Doubleday invented baseball and Christopher Columbus was the only guy who though the Earth was round.
Since every source I can find claims “Sweetest Day” was invented by an unnamed “man in Cleveland” in the 1940s, and since every cite seems to be the same word-for-word, my guess is: It’s all bullshit, and the guy in Cleveland never existed. It’s also apparently a uniquely American thing; nobody I ask here (Canada) has ever heard of it.
The way I figure it, Hallmark wasn’t making enough money from Halloween cards and it hadn’t yet considered selling Christmas stuff in September and October, so it came up with “Sweetest Day” to help make up for lost profits.
Well, two can play at that game. I declare that from now on, October 16, will be “National Dragwyr Day” and it shall be celebrated by everyone in the country sending me a U.S. One Dollar bill in a card designed especially for that day. Hey, if Hallmark can profit by creating a holiday, then why can’t I?
Why, YES! And it’s not coincidental, IIRC, which is why I was taken aback by the OP’s mention of Hallmark promoting it. That is a recent phenomenon. They used to ignore it in favor of their own manufactured holidays.
American Greetings… Hallmark… They’re all pretty much the same. You may interchange “Hallmark” for "American Greetings and it still would be stupid and wrong to make up a holiday to pad profits. Anything for a buck.
Hey now! Today is my birthday, and my whole life I have had to share my birthday with Sweetest Day and/or Bosses’ Day, TWO COMPLETELY MADE-UP AND UNCELEBRATED HOLIDAYS!! So if you’re going to invent a new holiday on October 16 with celebratory money-collecting, then, by God, I’m getting a cut!
