Editing Thursday (section)

==Popular culture==
*In the nursery rhyme, "[[Monday's Child]]", "Thursday's Child has far to go".
*In some [[High school (North America)|high school]]s in the [[United States]] during the 1950s and the 1960s, rumours said that if someone wore [[green]] on Thursdays, it meant that he or she was [[gay]] or [[lesbian]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Grahn, Judy|title=Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds|edition=updated and expanded|location=Boston|publisher=Beacon Press|date=1990|pages=[https://archive.org/details/anothermotherto000grah/page/76 76–81]|isbn=0-8070-7911-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/anothermotherto000grah/page/76}}</ref>
*Thursday is the day of the Second Round draw in the [[EFL Cup|English League Cup]].
*[[United Kingdom elections, 2004#Publishing|Super Thursday]] is an annual promotional event in the publishing industry as well as an important day in UK elections (see above).

===Literature===
*Gabriel Syme, the main character, was given the title of Thursday in [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s novel ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'' (1908).
*The titular day in ''[[Sweet Thursday]]'' (1954) (the sequel to [[John Steinbeck]]'s novel ''[[Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row]]'' (1945)), the author explains, is the day after Lousy Wednesday and the day before Waiting Friday.
*In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' by [[Douglas Adams]], the character [[Arthur Dent]] says: "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays". A few minutes later the planet [[Earth]] is destroyed. In another Douglas Adams book, ''[[The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul]]'' (1988), one of the characters says to the character Thor, after whom the day was named: "I'm not used to spending the evening with someone who's got a whole day named after them".
*In the [[cross media]] work ''[[Thursday's Fictions]]'' by [[Richard James Allen]] and [[Karen Pearlman]], Thursday is the title character, a woman who tries to cheat the cycle of [[reincarnation]] to get a form of [[immortality|eternal life]].  ''Thursday's Fictions'' has been a stage production, a book, a film and an 3D online immersive world in [[Second Life]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/80/8662 |title=Magazine – issue 80 – dance film: spiritual odyssey |publisher=RealTime Arts |access-date=6 August 2012}}</ref>
*[[Thursday Next]] is the central character in a series of novels by [[Jasper Fforde]].
*In [[Garth Nix]]'s popular [[The Keys to the Kingdom]] series, Thursday is an antagonist, a violent general who is a personification of the actual day and the [[Seven Deadly Sins|Sin of Wrath]].
*According to [[Nostradamus]]' prediction (Century 1, Quatrain 50), a powerful (but otherwise unidentified) leader who will threaten "the East" will be born of three [[water signs]] and takes Thursday as his feast day.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nostradamus |url=http://www.nostradamusquatrains.com/Century1/Quatrain50.htm |title=Century 1 – Quatrain 50 |publisher=Nostradamus Quatrains |access-date=6 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827075216/http://www.nostradamusquatrains.com/Century1/Quatrain50.htm |archive-date=27 August 2012 }}</ref>

===Cinema===
*[[Thursday (1998 film)|''Thursday'' (1998 film)]] is a movie starring [[Thomas Jane]], about the day of a drug dealer gone straight, who gets pulled back into his old lifestyle.
*''[[The Thursday]]'' (1963), is an Italian film.

===Music===
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*''[[Thursday Afternoon]]'' is a 1985 album by the British ambient musician [[Brian Eno]] consisting of one 60-minute-long composition. It is the rearranged soundtrack to a video production of the same title made in 1984.
*''[[Donnerstag aus Licht]]'' (Thursday from [[Licht|Light]]) is an opera by [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]].
*[[Thursday (band)|Thursday]] is a post-hardcore band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 1997.
*"[[Thursday's Child (David Bowie song)|Thursday's Child]]" is a [[David Bowie]] song from the album ''hours...''(1999).
*"Thursday's Child" is a song by [[The Chameleons]] on ''[[Script of the Bridge]]'' (1983).
*"Outlook for Thursday" was a hit in [[New Zealand]] for [[Dave Dobbyn]].
*[[Thursday (mixtape)]]" is the name of a mixtape by [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]] artist [[The Weeknd]] released in 2011.
*[[Living Room (AJR album)|"Thirsty"]] is a song by American pop band [[AJR]] that prominently features the lyrics 'Thirsty, thirsty Thursday'<ref>{{Citation |title=AJR – Thirsty |url=https://genius.com/Ajr-thirsty-lyrics |access-date=2024-08-25}}</ref>