On May 9th everyone dresses in green shorts or pants to celebrate National Green Shorts Day. Green Shorts day was founded by Greta and Rylan at Osseo Senior High School on May 9th 2022.
Greta: “Tomarrow’s Green Shorts day, don’t forget!”
Rylan: “Which pair of green shorts should I wear?”
Abby: “OMG the creators of Green Shorts Day are so cool!!”
Julia: “Guys I woke up early to buy green shorts”
Presumably borrowed from botantical terminology, this term is being used to highlight bright spots in a failing economy... analogous to new growth among a wasteland of dead plants and weeds.
(1) Onegreenshoot from the high unemployment numbers is that those who still have jobs are finding less traffic congestion during their commutes.
(2) "To get out of high rate mortgages. we are seeing progress in -- in the money market mutual funds, and in the business lending area. And I think as those green shoots begin to appear in different markets -- and as some confidence begins to come back -- that will begin the positive dynamic that brings our economy back." --Ben Bernanke (60 Minutes interview, March 2009)
Ruler of Lake Titicaca. Rumored to have a bunghole that gets very angry if it does not receive toilet paper. Cornholio the Great is often seen walking around with his shirt over his head and his hands in the air, chanting songs about his power, and his bunghole.
"I am Cornholio! You do not want to face the wrath of my bunghole, for I need TP!"
Butthead: Shut up, Beavis! (uh huh huh huh)
Beavis: Um, okay. (heh heh heh heh).