h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I fully agree with the general aim of renaming the days of the week (who can defend a joyous day like Friday being named after someone named 'Frig'? - It is dangerously close to the logic for 'Sodit' - did the Norse workweek begin on Friday?). But Tuesday has a long and lustrous history in even the Mythology that currently holds sway in much of the world: the Popeyian tenet that payment for today's sacrifices and pain will be forthcoming on a Tuesday to be determined later. To begin with, the cartoonist Dan O'Neill, creator of "Ods Bodkin" always set his adventures at "Tuesday after lunch, that Cosmic time in the Universe". But more importantly, the theology expressed in Wimpy's famed utterance is the overriding philosophy of all world faiths. Man is promised payment at a time which never comes (it is wisely noted that even when Popeye ran on Tuesday, it never appeared to be THAT Tuesday) if he will produce hamburger today. We are left with the solace that at some time there really is the payment coming, but no one ever comes back from that great Tuesday to let us know one way or another. If Tuesday ever came, it would indeed be a cosmic time in the universe. But the innate wisdom that lets a child of six realize the Wimpy is putting one over on us, is somehow beaten out of us by adulthood, so that all over the world there are people actually expecting Tuesday any minute now, and who are giving away their hamburgers fast and furiously. So let us keep Tuesday as a gentle reminder that we all once knew better.

Beautifully written!