Saturday

Saturday is the day of the week following Friday and preceding Sunday. Saturday is the seventh and therefore last day of the week according to many commonly used calendars, and it is the second-to-last (sixth) day of the week according to ISO 8601. The Romans named Saturday Sāturni diēs ("Saturn's Day") no later than the 2nd century for the planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day, according to Vettius Valens. The day's name was introduced into West Germanic languages and is recorded in the Low German languages such as Middle Low German sater(s)dach, Middle Dutch saterdag (Modern Dutch zaterdag) and Old English Sætern(es)dæġ and Sæterdæġ. However, the name was selected as a calque of the god Saturn, after whom the planet was named. The day was also referred to as "Sæternes dæġe" in an Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. In Old English, Saturday was also known as sunnanæfen ("sun" + "eve" cf. dialectal German Sonnabend). Sunday is the last creative day. God rested on the seventh day. - Fap

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On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence.
I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out!
- Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible (New York, N. Y.: Avon Books, 1969, 2005), p. 1

Saturday morning, jumped out of bed and put on my best suit. Got in my car and raced like a jet, all the way to you.
- MAGIC!, "Rude", Don't Kill the Magic (2013), New York: RCA Records

John Bender: Eat my shorts.
Vice Principal Richard Vernon: What was that?
John: Eat—my—shorts.
Vernon: You just bought yourself another Saturday.
John: Ooh, I'm crushed.
Vernon: You just bought one more.
John: Well, I'm free the Saturday after that. Beyond that, I'm going to have to check my calendar.
Vernon': Good, 'cause it's going to be filled! We'll keep going. You want another one? Just say the word say it. Instead of going to prison, you'll come here. Are you through?
John: No.
Vernon: I'm doing society a favour.
John: So?
Vernon: That's another one right now! I've got you for the rest of your natural born life if you don't watch your step. You want another one?
John: Yes.
Vernon: You got it! You got another one right there! That's another one, pal!
Claire Standish: Cut it out!
Vernon: You through?
John: Not even close, bud!
Vernon: Good! You got one more right there!
John: You really think I give a shit?
Vernon: Another! You through?
John: How many is that?
Brian Ralph Johnson: That's seven including when we first came in and you asked Mr. Vernon whether Barry Manilow knew that he raided his closet.
Vernon: Now it's eight. You stay out of this.
Brian: Excuse me, sir, it's seven.
Vernon: Shut up, peewee! You're mine, Bender…for two months, I gotcha! I gotcha!
John: What can I say? I'm thrilled!
- Various characters (played by Judd Nelson, Paul Gleason, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall) in The Breakfast Club (15 February 1985).

What?
Well, it's a job like any other. Good work, with lots of variety—Monday we burn Miller; Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman; Friday, Faulkner; and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes, and then burn the ashes—that's our official motto.
- Montag (played by Oskar Werner) in François Truffaut's film adaptation |Fahrenheit 451 (16 September 1966), based on the 1953 novel of the same title by Ray Bradbury.
- In the original book, Guy Montag says to Clarisse McClellan:
  - It's fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
    - "The Hearth and the Salamander," Pt. 1 of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), p. 6.

What is this? A nuclear Saturday or something? Come on, guys. This is our last weekend together. Our last Goonie weekend. We gotta be going out in style.
- Clark "Mouth" Devereaux (played by Corey Feldman) in The Goonies (7 June 1985).

Yeeeeaaaahh, I'm gonna need you to come in on Saturday…
- Tagline to Office Space (19 February 1999), derived from a line from Bill Lumbergh (played by Gary Cole).

Saturday's child works hard for a living
- "Monday's Child," first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire vol. II (1838), pp. 287–288).

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I have some money 'cause I just got paid
How I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way
- Sam Cooke, "Another Saturday Night," Ain't That Good News (1 March 1964), tr. 5.

It's Saturday morning
And who's gonna play with me?
Six in the morning, baby
I got a long, long day ahead of me
It's saturday morning
And this ain't the place for me
I'm giving you warning, baby
We got a whole, big, fat world to see
- eels, "Saturday Morning," Shootenanny! (3 June 2003), tr. 2.

'Cause I got some kind of disease
And there are no remedies
Think I should stay in bed today
Maybe tomorrow go out and play
It's Saturday
But I've got some kind of disease
And there are no remedies
Think I'll join Timothy Leary
In a cryogenic freeze
Next Saturday
Yeah I've got some kind of disease
And there are no remedies
Should've listened when you said, "Beware
Of horny girls with New Jersey hair
Last Saturday
- Marcy Playground, "It's Saturday," Shapeshifter (2 November 1999), tr. 1.

My Saturday
Never Sunday
And a moat, a fall of thee
My Saturday
Never Sunday
And a moat, a bite, a lee
- Melvins, "City Dump," Tres Cabrones (5 November 2013), tr. 2.

I was crying on a Saturday night
- Misfits, "Saturday Night," Famous Monsters (5 October 1999), tr. 8.

I wanna take all the Saturdays
I wanna stay up late
I wanna stomp my feet on the ground
I wanna celebrate
A month of Saturdays, Saturdays
A month of Saturday, Saturdays, ah
- R.E.M., "A Month of Saturdays," Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011 (11 November 2011), disc 2, tr. 17.

None of the guys go steady cause it wouldn't be right
To leave their best girl home now on Saturday night
- The Beach Boys, "I Get Around," All Summer Long (13 July 1964), tr. 1.

Saturday wait, and Sunday always comes too late
- The Cure, "Friday I'm in Love," Wish (11 May 1992), tr. 7.

So I'm in love with Saturday's child
Seven days of the week made to choose from
But only one is right for me
I know that Saturday's got what it takes, babe
I can tell by the way she looks at me
- The Monkees, "Saturday's Child," The Monkees (10 October 1966), tr. 2.

She's a Saturday night special (Saturday night)
A two two caliber bore
She's a Saturday night special (Saturday night)
You caught me dreamin' before
She's a Saturday night special (Saturday night)
I'm young and easily bored
She's a Saturday night special (Saturday night)
And you know I'm kinda special and you know that you'll be back for more
- The Runaways, "Saturday Night Special," And Now… The Runaways (1978), tr. 1.

External links

Encyclopedic article on Saturday on Wikipedia
The dictionary definition of Saturday on Wiktionary
Media related to Saturday on Wikimedia Commons

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