News readers on the morning news on KNBC-4 Los Angeles frequently refer to Wednesday as “Humpday”. That is, you’re over the hump and it’s downhill to the weekend. I wonder how far this has spread? I first heard “Humpday” back in the early-'80s on the now-long-defunct KMET. They had names for each weekday: Humday Monday, Titillating Tuesday, Humpday, Champaign Thursday (that’s when they were paid) and Finally Friday.
It just seems strange to hear this “term from the dead” being used.
I first heard the term when I started going out with the future Mrs. D18 in 1983. She was the first person I heard use it. That was in Southern Ontario.
Jeez, I think I’ve heard this for at least as long as I’ve been in business. That would be '84, in Texas. I bet it’s been around longer than that.
I always wonder why they call it “hump day” if there’s no humping…
Interesting this should be brought up - just the other day my girlfriend and I were discussing our mutual annoyance with the phrase. I always thought it was an idiotic phrase because if, by Thursday and Friday you’re cruising down towards the weekend, aren’t you technically still on the hump, albeit the declining side? Ergo, calling just 1/7 of the week “humpday” seems kind of silly. My GF pointed out that maybe all of the other days ran along this flat plane, and you had to ascend the hump of Wednesday to get to Thursday and Friday, but I don’t think I buy that. (That would be more like “Pimple Day,” if you ask me.)
And from my own personal experience as a client service representative in a health insurance agency, Friday is by far the most difficult day to get through. In the time it takes for the clock to move from one o’clock to five o’clock, entire civilations could rise and fall. It’s that slow.