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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:35AM from the whole-lotta-hype dept.

xsspd2004 writes "Despite a huge amount of hype, the Monday after Thanksgiving is historically only the 12th-biggest online shopping day of the year. Do a Google search on "Cyber Monday," and you get as many as 779,000 results. Not a bad haul for a term that was created just a week and a half ago."

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Are you trying to say... (Score:5, Funny)

by lbrandy ( 923907 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:37AM (#14137008)

Are you trying to say that our media is creating and over-hyping something that doesn't necessarily exist to make for better headlines? Noooooo... not our media....

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It's twoo, it's twoo! (Score:5, Funny)

by glomph ( 2644 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:40AM (#14137031) Homepage Journal

On CyberMonday, my whole family stands in line for hours to buy stuff on the Internet! It gets to fisticuffs and hair-pulling when it comes to grabbing the mouse and clicking on the 'Complete Purchase' button!

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non news (Score:1, Funny)

by phase_9 ( 909592 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:41AM (#14137033) Homepage

google.com "non news" Results 1 - 10 of about 271,000 for "non news". (0.24 seconds)

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Google index (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:42AM (#14137047)

Well, most of the hits on the google search are from msg board posts that actually say "Wanna cyber, Monday?"

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An alternative name... (Score:5, Funny)

by ysegalov ( 849765 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:43AM (#14137050)

From the article:
They quickly discarded suggestions such as Black Monday (too much like Black Friday), Blue Monday (not very cheery), and Green Monday (too environmentalist), and settled on Cyber Monday.

I would call it - 'November's fools day'.

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umm Cyber? Monday (Score:2, Funny)

by 0110011001110101 ( 881374 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:43AM (#14137057) Journal

DOH! Does this mean I missed the biggest day of the year to get online and talk dirty to women who are actually men pretending to be women pretending to like men who are pretending not to like little boys?

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Talk about over-hyping... (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:45AM (#14137061)

"windows vista" gives you about 15,600,000 results on google. And it's not even out yet!

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O rly? (Score:5, Funny)

by parasonic ( 699907 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:45AM (#14137062)

I somehow doubt that google has spidered and indexed ~800k sites/pages containing such phrase, in that time period.

Somebody has a case of the cyber-Mondays!

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Uh guys, It's was Deer Slaying Day.... (Score:3, Funny)

by FirstNoel ( 113932 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:45AM (#14137064) Journal

The first Monday after Thanksgiving has always been and will always be Deer Slaying Day. Hell, we have off for work and school, just so we can go slay some of those fierce creatures.

Sheesh...get it right.

It's kind of like Snake Whacking day...only with deer.

Watch out those antlers can be nasty!

Sean D.

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Thanks slashdot, I just did a search for... (Score:2, Funny)

by Wisgary ( 799898 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:46AM (#14137070)

"Cyber monday" and came up with this:

naked girl naked underage and nude boy nude boy teen pic nude boy... and tgp preteens very female nudist cyber monday real underground erotic ... lolitas gay art european porn clitoris story little lilamber sex polish ...

Relevant!

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Online shoppping (Score:1, Funny)

by HappyCakeOven ( 900863 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:47AM (#14137082)

Personally, I stay home on cyber monday. The internet is too crowded and I hate waiting in the long lines at the checkout button.

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Strange... (Score:2, Funny)

by __aaclcg7560 ( 824291 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:49AM (#14137093)

When I clicked on the CNN Money poll asking if you were shopping on Cyber Monday, the "No" was running at 85%. No wonder there was no internet slowdown when I was browsing the Amazon site at work. Alas, I didn't buy anything. Bad, consumer, bad!

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I'm sick of this. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:49AM (#14137094)

And while we're beating down hype, "Good Friday" was only my ninth favourite friday of 2005.

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Love Day (Score:5, Funny)

by farfisa69 ( 526335 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:50AM (#14137098) Homepage

Marge: "Happy Love Day everyone!"
Lisa: "Come on Mom! The stores just invented this holiday because they wanted to make money!"
Homer: "Lisa don't you ruin another love day!"

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when... (Score:1, Funny)

by mangus_angus ( 873781 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:52AM (#14137115)

will the cybermonday sales ad's be leaked on the net? I hope these people do a better job next year, I couldn't find a single one for amazon, tigerdirect, or newegg!!

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Can we get rid of real monday too? (Score:1, Funny)

by Tachikoma ( 878191 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @09:58AM (#14137152)

I mean seriously...no one needs REAL monday either

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Talliwhacker Tuesday! (Score:1, Funny)

by CyricZ ( 887944 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @10:02AM (#14137177)

Today has been declared Talliwhacker Tuesday! Everyone who is capable of obtaining and maintaining an erection shall stroke it to the point of ejaculation.

Alas, I cannot participate, as I suffer from severe impotency.

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Re:Uh guys, It's was Deer Slaying Day.... (Score:5, Funny)

by evilviper ( 135110 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @10:32AM (#14137369) Journal

Watch out those antlers can be nasty!

My sister was once bitten by a moose.

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Not to be confused with "cyber tuesday" (Score:1, Funny)

by Zane Edwards ( 562074 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @10:39AM (#14137419) Homepage

Which only gets 2,100 hits in google (with quotes).

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Re:Uh (Score:1, Funny)

by gummih ( 932818 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @10:43AM (#14137459) Homepage

In other news, Google searches for the term "Cyber Monday" just skyrocketet. Analysts are saying "we told you so, slashdot it and they will come"

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Re:Uh guys, It's was Deer Slaying Day.... (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @10:53AM (#14137548)

No really! She was carving her intials on the moose when...

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Re:Uh guys, It's was Deer Slaying Day.... (Score:2, Funny)

by FirstNoel ( 113932 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @10:54AM (#14137567) Journal

Mind you, moose bites can be nasty.

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Re:Talliwhacker Tuesday! (Score:5, Funny)

by jrumney ( 197329 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @11:10AM (#14137703)

Alas, I cannot participate, as I suffer from severe impotency.
Please contact me urgently about a large number of emails intended for you that have ended up in my inbox.

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My niece called on the phone. (Score:5, Funny)

by AtariDatacenter ( 31657 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @12:09PM (#14138230)

She promptly informed me that the day was 'Cyber Day' and that everything on the Internet was 50% off.

That'd be my dream. I told her that the only thing that was half off was women's clothing at myspace.com. She then asked me if I've ever shopped there before.

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Gas lines (Score:3, Funny)

by porkThreeWays ( 895269 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @12:18PM (#14138322)

I thought I saw you in line. Remember me? We met in the gas lines after the hurricane. I met your brother once in line for Styx tickets and your Uncle in another line for space mountain. Man I love waiting in lines....

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Re:Google index (Score:2, Funny)

by FreakyLefty ( 803946 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @02:40PM (#14139736) Homepage

Eep. Only 2 results for "wanna cyber monday" on Google. Obviously Monday isn't the most popular time... still, curious, I checked the other days and Monday comes out on top. Seems people are just too impatient to plan these things. Pah, kids these days.

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Re:Google index (Score:3, Funny)

by StikyPad ( 445176 ) writes: on Tuesday November 29, 2005 @06:49PM (#14142341) Homepage

Who's Monday?

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