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Oh, today is a very good expression. Many people want to know about this.
TGIF! Yay! T-G-I-F. What exactly do those initials mean?
T stands for thank. Not thanks. Thank. T-H-A-N-K.
God, G-O-D It's, it is Friday. F-R-I-D-A-Y.
TGIF means Friday. Thank God it's Friday.
About the word God, G-O-D, some people spell it... with a big G or a capital G because they really do think about God.
Oh God in heaven, thank you. It's Friday. but some people spell it with a small g.
And they're not thinking of God in heaven.
They're using thank God as an expression, which means thank goodness.
Oh, I'm so lucky. I'm so fortunate. That's also another meaning of thank God.
So when I write... Thank God. I usually use a small G because I don't actually think of God in heaven as giving me Friday.
It's more like, I'm so happy, I'm so lucky that the end of the week Oh, thank you.
Thank you for... Time going quickly. So it's up to you.
If you want to think of God in heaven, use a big G.
If you just want to be thankful, use a small jeep.
So in America and most of the non-Muslim world, The end of the week is Friday.
So we work Monday through through Friday.
And that means Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday is off. time.
We can be with our friends and we can be with our family.
So thank God it's Friday means, yay, no more work, no more school.
Let's go. have fun let's relax this is the idea it's a great expression So my question, especially to the Muslim listeners, do you say...
Thank God it's Thursday? Do you have such an expression?
I'm curious as far as I know, Friday and Saturday. is the Muslim weekend.
But once again, I'm not exactly sure. Okay, TGIF.
Thank God it's Friday. Let's check out the dialogue.
Oh, man, TGIF. Thank God it's Friday. No kidding.
You going out tonight? Yes. I'm going to go dance in the night away.
Have fun. I'll be with my friend Jack Daniels.
Oh yes, it's Friday. Friday night. Do you have any plans?
Are you going out tonight? To go out means to go out with friends, to have fun, to go to a movie, to go to a Baseball game do something like that well the first guy says I'm gonna go dancing the night away so he's going to go dancing the All night, evidently he likes to dance, disco dancing perhaps.
Not my thing. The other guy says, have fun.
Enjoy yourself. I'll be with my friend, Jack.
So, he has a friend named Jack Daniels. Now actually, this is a joke, but I'm not going to tell you the joke.
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Jack Daniels is. It's a joke. So it is, for most of you, Friday. are you happy that it's friday do you have any special plans for tonight or this weekend If you do, leave me a message.
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Okay, let's check out the dialogue two more times.
Oh, man, TGIF. Thank God it's Friday. No kidding.
You going out tonight? Yes. I'm going to go dance in the night away.
Have fun. I'll be with my friend Jack Daniels.
Oh, man, TGIF. Thank God it's Friday. No kidding.
You going out tonight? Yes. I'm gonna go dance in the night away.
Have fun. I'll be with my friend Jack Daniels.
Ah yes, thank God it's Friday. TGIF! Now...
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