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** In particular, there are names that you would usually name children if they were born on a certain day of the week. For example, Kofi for Thursday, Kwaku for Wednesday, etc.
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** In particular, there are names that you would usually name children if they were born on a certain day of the week. For example, Kofi for Thursday, Friday, Kwaku for Wednesday, etc.
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* LegionOfSuperheroes member Mon-El (real name Lar Gand) was named that way because {{Superboy}} mistook him for his older brother (Lar had amnesia at the time) and they met on a monday. (-El being Superboy's family surname.)
* Sort of applies to DCComics villain SolomonGrundy, who was (re)born on a Monday (and thus named after the famous nursery rhyme.)
* Sort of applies to DCComics villain SolomonGrundy, who was (re)born on a Monday (and thus named after the famous nursery rhyme.)
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* The hamlet folk in the book of LarkRiseToCandleford nicknamed their farmer, Morris, "Old Monday". This got transferred to the TV series without the man's real name being mentioned.
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* A short story in the {{Hellboy}} book 'Oddest Jobs' discusses this. Hellboy, Liz, and another B.P.R.D. worker try to think of someone named Thursday, and Hellboy ends up telling a story of a man with the last name Thursday. [[spoiler:Although within the story, it shows that the man comes from a race of Thursday Men, who are trying to prevent the Wednesday Men from coming through to our dimension.]]
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* A short story in the {{Hellboy}} ''{{Hellboy}}'' book 'Oddest Jobs' ''Oddest Jobs'' discusses this. Hellboy, Liz, and another B.P.R.D. worker try to think of someone named Thursday, and Hellboy ends up telling a story of a man with the last name Thursday. [[spoiler:Although within the story, it shows that the man comes from a race of Thursday Men, who are trying to prevent the Wednesday Men from coming through to our dimension.]]
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*[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturdays The Saturdays]]
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* ''Shortland Street's'' Tuesday Warner.
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* The eponymous heroine of ''Friday'' by RobertAHeinlein.
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* One of AlanMoore's one-shot strips for ''[[TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'' titled "Chronocops" which was modeled as a parody of ''{{Dragnet}}'' with TimeTravel, saw a main character named Joe Saturday with a partner Ed Thursday. A detective from the Fraud Division is named Marv Wednesday, and Ed's grandmother has the name Tuesday.
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* The main character of ''RogueTrooper'' is named Friday.
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* In ''Bishoujo Senshi SailorMoon'', the Inners all have last names that contain the kanji used for the days of the week: Usagi Tsukino (tsuki = moon = Monday), Ami Mizuno (mizu = water = Wednesday), Rei Hino (hi = fire = Tuesday), Makoto Kino (ki = tree = Thursday), Minako Aino (ai = gold = Friday). Sailor Saturn uses the kanji for earth (to) for Saturday.
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* In the [[StoryArc Alabasta arc]] of ''OnePiece'', the Baroque Works organization gives days of the week as {{Code Name}}s to its high-ranking female agents. (The very top female agents above them get codenamed after specific holidays.) Like many other names in ''One Piece'', there doesn't seem to be any [[MeaningfulName significance]] besides [[RuleOfCool sounding cool]].
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* Friday Monday from ''{{Madlax}}''.
* In the [[StoryArc Alabasta arc]] of ''OnePiece'', the Baroque Works organization gives days of the week as {{Code Name}}s to its high-ranking female agents. (The very top female agents above them get codenamed after specific holidays.) Like many other names in ''One Piece'', there doesn't seem to be any [[MeaningfulName significance]] besides [[RuleOfCool sounding cool]].
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* In the [[StoryArc Alabasta arc]] of ''OnePiece'', the Baroque Works organization gives days of the week as {{Code Name}}s to its high-ranking female agents. (The very top female agents above them get codenamed after specific holidays.) Like many other names in ''One Piece'', there doesn't seem to be any [[MeaningfulName significance]] besides [[RuleOfCool sounding cool]].
* In ''Bishoujo Senshi SailorMoon'', the Inners all have last names that contain the kanji used for the days of the week: Usagi Tsukino (tsuki = moon = Monday), Ami Mizuno (mizu = water = Wednesday), Rei Hino (hi = fire = Tuesday), Makoto Kino (ki = tree = Thursday), Minako Aino (ai = gold = Friday). Sailor Saturn uses the kanji for earth (to) for Saturday.
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* Two from ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'', Wednesday Ryan and Wednesday Garci. Given this is a KillEmAll [=RP=], full of woe is quite apt.
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* Jewish lore says that when Esther became queen she gave her handmaids these names to help keep track of when it was the Sabbath. However, she felt that such simple names were degrading, so she instead named them after what God created on each particular day during the creation story.
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This is easier to remember in Latinate languages. The days of the week in French, for example, are Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi and Dimanche.
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This is easier to remember in Latinate languages. The days of the week in French, for example, are Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi and Dimanche.[[OddNameOut Dimanche]].
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*** Who didn't really have a specific name; Zack decided to call them "the Mondays" because Monday (the first day of the work-week, or seeing as how he's just a kid, more likely the school week) is essentially the "opposite" of Saturday (the start of the weekend.
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See also TemporalThemeNaming.TemporalThemeNaming, DaysOfTheWeekSong.
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* Wednesday Thursday Addams, of ''TheAddamsFamily'', had the week's scariest name as her own.
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* Wednesday Thursday Friday Addams, of ''TheAddamsFamily'', had the week's scariest name as her own.
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* The ''LooneyTunes'' spoof of ''{{Dragnet}}'', "Rocket Squad":
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* Susan Sontag (German for Sunday).
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Okay, LetsPlay: What is, you say, a good way, to this day, to give away a MeaningfulName? A weekday!
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Okay, LetsPlay: let's play: What is, you say, a good way, to this day, to give away a MeaningfulName? A weekday!
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* Domingo Montoya from ''ThePrincessBride''. Domingo is Spanish for [[ThisIsmyNameOnForeign Sunday]]
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** Don't forget that Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlaces in "Lady Madonna".
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* ''The Man Who Was Thursday'' by GKChesterton, though there the days of the week are just the code names for the seven leaders of a secret anarchist society and not their actual names. [[spoiler: Rather than gods or nursery rhymes, the names are symbolic of the (slightly adjusted) Creation Week.]]
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* A short story in the {{Hellboy}} book 'Oddest Jobs' discusses this. Hellboy, Liz, and another B.P.R.D. worker try to think of someone named Thursday, and Hellboy ends up telling a story of a man with the last name Thursday. [[Spoiler:Although within the story, it shows that the man comes from a race of Thursday Men, who are trying to prevent the Wednesday Men from coming through to our dimension.]]
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* A short story in the {{Hellboy}} book 'Oddest Jobs' discusses this. Hellboy, Liz, and another B.P.R.D. worker try to think of someone named Thursday, and Hellboy ends up telling a story of a man with the last name Thursday. [[Spoiler:Although [[spoiler:Although within the story, it shows that the man comes from a race of Thursday Men, who are trying to prevent the Wednesday Men from coming through to our dimension.]]
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* A short story in the ''Hellboy'' book 'Oddest Jobs' discusses this. Hellboy, Liz, and another B.P.R.D. worker try to think of someone named Thursday, and Hellboy ends up telling a story of a man with the last name Thursday. [Spoiler]Although within the story, it shows that the man comes from a race of Thursday Men, who are trying to prevent the Wednesday Men from coming through to our dimension.[/spoiler]
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* You know that joke where a man rides into town on ''day name'' and leaves ''another day name'' after staying some duration that doesn't add up? [[spoiler:The horse's name is one of the two days mentioned.]]
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* One adaption of {{SnowWhite}} has the Seven Dwarves characterised as this.
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* The highest-ranking underlings of Tauzant in the [[NinpuuSentaiHurricanger Jakanja]] have such names: Manmaruba = Monday, Chuuzubo = Tuesday ("Chu-zu-de-i"), Wendinu = Wednesday, Sargain = Thursday ("Sa-zu-de-i"), Furabijo = Friday (Fu-ra-i-de-i), Satorakura = Saturday, Sandaru = Sunday
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* The highest-ranking underlings of Tauzant in the [[NinpuuSentaiHurricanger [[NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger Jakanja]] have such names: Manmaruba = Monday, Chuuzubo = Tuesday ("Chu-zu-de-i"), Wendinu = Wednesday, Sargain = Thursday ("Sa-zu-de-i"), Furabijo = Friday (Fu-ra-i-de-i), Satorakura = Saturday, Sandaru = Sunday
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* [[TheAddamsFamily Wedensday Addams]]
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August is not a weekday, and August (as a form of Augustus) is not an uncommon name.
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* There's an editorial cartoonist named August Pollak.