One Hippo to another: "I keep thinking it's Tuesday"

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-there-were-these-two-hippos/65477

It may have originated as a cartoon. I heard Johnny Carson tell it many years ago on the Tonight Show. ............
At the time it seemed really funny, but it seems dated now. I don’t hear that many “I hate Monday” jokes anymore.

---------- Why would this be?
In the 2000's, 2010's, workweek became less of a drag ?

The joke originates with Paul Crum’s cartoon, published in the British magazine Punch in 1937.
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It is my all-time favorite cartoon. ...............
The cartoon can be seen here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bq6A010IQAAZzmo.png

henh... (this is the name I see) wrote:

> I don't hear that many "I hate Monday" jokes anymore.

But I hear songs on the theme, such as Blue Monday by
Smiley Lewis and Stormy Monday by T-Bone Walker. Back
when radio Solent accepted e-mails instead of messages
through proprietary media, I wrote to them:

To celebrate this sunny Sunday, let us "Blue Monday".

That being England, I heard the host lean hard sideways
to look out the window and declare off-mike in a
strained voice that it was not so sunny at all. After
he had played that song, more requests followed, includ-
ing a comparison of "One Night of Sin" by Lewis and
Presley.

Oh, there is also Monday-Monday by The Mamas and the Pa-
pas, and the Soviet "Island of Bad Luck", where the mis-
fortuntes of the aborigenes are due to their birthday's
falling on Mondays.

henh, get a real name, install a real newsreader.

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On 2022-05-24 08:41:53 +0000, Anton Shepelev said:

> henh... (this is the name I see) wrote:
>
>> I don't hear that many "I hate Monday" jokes anymore.
>
> But I hear songs on the theme, such as Blue Monday by
> Smiley Lewis and Stormy Monday by T-Bone Walker. Back
> when radio Solent accepted e-mails instead of messages
> through proprietary media, I wrote to them:
>
> To celebrate this sunny Sunday, let us "Blue Monday".
>
> That being England, I heard the host lean hard sideways
> to look out the window and declare off-mike in a
> strained voice that it was not so sunny at all. After
> he had played that song, more requests followed, includ-
> ing a comparison of "One Night of Sin" by Lewis and
> Presley.
>
> Oh, there is also Monday-Monday by The Mamas and the Pa-
> pas, and the Soviet "Island of Bad Luck", where the mis-
> fortuntes of the aborigenes are due to their birthday's
> falling on Mondays.
>
> henh, get a real name, install a real newsreader.

That's only the beginning of henh's problems: learn when to use square
brackets, learn how format text, learn how to write words like
"people", learn when to use capital letters, etc., etc.

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Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.

On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 5:32:26 AM UTC-7, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> On 2022-05-24 08:41:53 +0000, Anton Shepelev said:
>
> > henh... (this is the name I see) wrote:
> >
> >> I don't hear that many "I hate Monday" jokes anymore.
> >
> > But I hear songs on the theme, such as Blue Monday by
> > Smiley Lewis and Stormy Monday by T-Bone Walker. Back
> > when radio Solent accepted e-mails instead of messages
> > through proprietary media, I wrote to them:
> >
> > To celebrate this sunny Sunday, let us "Blue Monday".
> >
> > That being England, I heard the host lean hard sideways
> > to look out the window and declare off-mike in a
> > strained voice that it was not so sunny at all. After
> > he had played that song, more requests followed, includ-
> > ing a comparison of "One Night of Sin" by Lewis and
> > Presley.
> >
> > Oh, there is also Monday-Monday by The Mamas and the Pa-
> > pas, and the Soviet "Island of Bad Luck", where the mis-
> > fortuntes of the aborigenes are due to their birthday's
> > falling on Mondays.
> >

> Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.

----------- (this feels odd...) (and living where after that ?)

Maybe ppl hate Mondays less now.

>>> A 2012 study by America's [Journal of Positive Psychology] found that Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were hated just as much in results from a poll taken by 340,000 people.