The enduring popularity of the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats has pushed the title phrase into the lexicon. People reflexively utter that phrase at the start of each week as they ponder the drudgery and length of the workweek ahead of them. They might not realize, if indeed they borrowed the phrase from the song, the actual provenance of the saying is quite dark. That's because songwriter Bob Geldof took it from a tragic true story he just happened to hear one day.
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