I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of townTuesday.

-Algren, Nelson
In Malcolm Crowley (ed)  Writers at Work (1958).

As a boy I genuinely believed in the man who never ate bacon because its red and white stripesreminded himof Sheffield Unitedöindeed in my blue and white Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.

-Hattersley, Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron
  Goodbye toYorkshire.