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* White Day, in Japan, China, and some other east-Asian countries. According to [[The Other Wiki]], it "was started by the National Confectionery Industry Association as an "answer day" to Valentine's Day" in 1978.
* "Black Friday" originated in Philadelphia in 1961, where the term was used to describe the traffic disruptions that took place the day after US Thanksgiving. It took only four decades for the term to be co-opted to refer to the busiest shopping day of the year.
* Super Bowl Sunday, or "[[Bland-Name Product|Big Game]] Sunday" if you [[Tradesnark™|aren't willing to pay the license fee]] to use the term "Super Bowl", has become the second-largest food consumption event in the United States (after Thanksgiving) and [[Super Bowl Special|the day when all the "important" commercials are premiered]]. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says 4% of the US workforce already take at least part of the following Monday off work.
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