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== Burger King Wednesday == (Otherwise Known as BK Wednesday) Is a
holiday among the Abington Junior and High school students that
takes place on Wednesday of every week.(not to be confused with
whopper Wednesday)<br />
Origins
Although its origins
are widely contested What is know is this. BK Wednesday was founded
by Dan Plunkett, Matt Mageria, and Brandon Salzman in the 7th grade
(2004) On a warm sunny day back in 7th grade Dan, and Salzman
stayed after school on a Wednesday to watch a baseball game.
Although little is know about this exact incident one thing is
known for sure, they quickly became bored. An idea was suggested to
go to burger king. Why not? they thought,so Dan a Salzman went off
into the sunbut they didn't know how to get there. So they saw Matt
and Karl walking back from there. So they asked them for
directions. They pointed them to the way and they were off. These
two visionaries had such a good time that they decided that they
should come every week. Since Monday was just not a good day to go,
and Tuesday was Dan's favorite day of the week, Dan came up with
the idea and name of BK Wednesday.(note:this took place on a
Tuesday) Matt falsely states he created it because he does not
remember that it was a Tuesday. And so the sacred tradition was
founded on this holy Tuesday.
The Coupon Book Era
Back in
the beginning of 8th grade (2005) a wondrous thing happened. Burger
King started selling coupon books for just 1$ and with this 1$
coupon book you could get 4 small fries and 4 small drinks. A
marvelous deal indeed and all of us took advantage of it.
Unfortunately this marvelous deal did not last and after Halloween
of that year the coupon books were discontinued thus ending the
Coupon Book Era.
Modern Day BK Wednesday
Modern Day
Burger King is similar yet different from the old BK. It is similar
in the fact that we still go to BK on wensday and it is still a
sacred day in its members mind. But the introduction of Whopper
Wensday made whopper meals cheaper thus more people could come with
less money and the BK population grew. Currently there are around
20 full-time BK members and even more guests that show up every
once in a while. (Introduction of BK wensday to our high school
friends also swelled the BK population) In the Fall of 2006
Popularity of BK hit an all time high, on average almost 20 group
members attended BK Wensday weekly. ON 11/15/2006 BK Wednesday
popularity hit an all time high. That day 50 people came for BK
Wednesday. This broke the previous attendance record of 17 on
9/13/2006.
Confusion of BK Wednesday and Whopper
Wednesday
Although many people think that BK wensday was
founded on wensday because of whopper wensday this is a common
misconception. There was no whopper wensday in 7th grade in fact
whopper wensday didn't come around until late in 8th grade. Thus
making the two just a Coincidence.
Current Members===
(Includes but not limited to)<br /> Dan Plunkett<br
/> Matt Mageria<br /> Karl Hochsteoger<br
/> Brandon Salzman<br /> Gene Tunney<br /> Ben
Brotman<br /> George Newman<br /> Alex Fantini<br
/> Andrew Vizak<br /> Joel “Mexico” Coehlo<br
/> Ron Tsimora<br /> Kerri Mcgukin<br /> Crystal
Abel<br /> Lauren Norpel<br /> Marissa Both<br
/> Rob Hill<br /> Ryan Baily<br /> Dan
Bassi
===Why BK Wednesday is so important
BK Wednesday is
important for a lot of reasons. It is a cultural phenomenon
exploding in popularity in the fall of 2006. It has changed the way
many of us think of Wednesday and has opened our minds to new ideas
and philosophies prehaps, in its own way BK Wednesday is a
philosophy itself we will never know the fact that whopper
wendnesday is on the same day of the week as bk wendnesday is all
the proof needed to make it more then just a still ritual, it made
it a weekly holiday