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WELL, IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

Look, before you tap "reply" and begin irately clickety-clacking about late-stage capitalism and the true spirit of the season or whatever you're feeling soapbox-y about, we know — it's not actually Black Friday. 

Boredwalk does TWO Black Friday sales each year — one the weekend before Thanksgiving and one the weekend after — for a very practical reason: we print all our tees and hoodies and tank tops and messenger bags and kitchen towels to order, and spreading out the savings across two weekends helps keep everyone in our Production and Shipping departments sane and better equipped to avoid burnout and exhaustion from having all the holiday orders come in over a short 4-day period.

The deals this weekend are better than the ones we're offering next weekend. So please bear this in mind as you plan your holiday shopping.

If you're one of those billionaire types, please don't hesitate to pay full price and share some of that largesse with us plebes! Perhaps you're in the market for that brand-new reimagining of our I Refuse To Rest In Peace, I Expect To Haunt In Retribution design, shown above? The original version was solid, but we think this "Taylor's version," if you will, improves upon it immensely. Prove us right and buy it!

Now, on with the discount codes!

Now through Monday (11/20) get:

• 10% OFF EVERYTHING, STOREWIDE, with code EARLYBIRDY10

• 15% OFF $75+ orders AND FREE U.S. shipping with code EARLYBIRDY15

• 20% OFF $150+ orders AND FREE U.S. shipping with code EARLYBIRDY20

• 20% OFF $200+ orders AND FREE U.S. shipping AND a FREE copy of our Good Company guest book with code EARLYBIRDY20* for the first 50 customers!

*Yes, the code is the same. Don't worry. Our system will add the book to the cart once you hit that $200 threshold.

Perfect for the holiday season (but useful year-round), Good Company is a great way to commemorate family gatherings, holiday parties, and low-key friendly hangouts with writing and drawing prompts designed to give you an ever-evolving document of the fun times you've had with your favorite people!

Leave it out for your guests to add to whenever you have visitors and you'll be able to look back through their jokes and poems and doodles about your get-togethers with fondness for years to come.

Plus it's incredibly stylish and would look great on your coffee table. It's also a fantastic distraction for those rude guests that always show up unfashionably early. (You know who you are!)

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While you're shopping, treat your earholes to the latest episode of the Boredwalk Podcast! Click here to listen on your favorite podcasting platform!

This week my co-founder Meredith & Grace from Boredwalk's content team trade stories about their recent exercise-related brushes with death!

They also react to a customer review that describes a work culture that gives us all the ick.

There is then our recurring segment "Troll Comment of the Week" — always a fun time! As per usual, this week's troll comment is busting at the seams with unprompted misogyny.

Meredith and Grace then share their responses to our recent Question of the Day "which fast food chain has the worst menu?" Fan answers were varied and heated! A lot of Chick-fil-A stans and haters in these streets!

They wrap up by asking each other questions from our forthcoming Delve Deck expansion packs. From the Venting Edition they answer the question "who disappointed you recently and why?" and from the Joy Edition they share their responses to "what life experience ended up being a lot better than you imagined it would be?"

While we had hoped to unveil those gorgeous new decks today, the Customs & Border Protection agents at the port of Long Beach enjoy ruining holidays more than a pre-heart enlargement Grinch. We'll be doing a discounted launch for those ASAP — hopefully next week! We're confident we'll still be able to ship them in time for Christmakwanzaayulekkah.

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Alright! Let's send you off into the weekend with some notable events and famous birthdays from November 17ths of yore!

• Happy National Hiking Day and National Baklava Day!

• Happy birthday to the beautiful city of Denver, Colorado, which was founded on this day in 1858!

• Birthday baklava all around for: Canadian singer-songwriter & guitarist Gordon Lightfoot (1938), filmmaker Martin Scorsese (1942), model & actress Lauren Hutton of Once Bitten fame (1943), singer-songwriter & guitarist Gene Clark of Byrds fame (1944), actor, director, and American treasure Danny DeVito of Taxi, Twins, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia fame (1944), Canadian-American screenwriter & producer Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live and Kids in the Hall fame (1944), actor Stephen Root of NewsRadio, Office Space, and Idiocracy fame (1951), drag icon RuPaul of Drag Race and But I'm A Cheerleader fame (1960), influential singer-songwriter & guitarist Jeff Buckley (1966), singer-songwriter & guitarist Kimya Dawson of Moldy Peaches fame (1972), Welsh actor Tom Ellis of Lucifer fame (1978), and Canadian actress Rachel McAdams of Mean Girls, Wedding Crashers, and The Notebook fame (1978)

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OK, that's it for this week! We'll be back here in your inbox on Monday with another email and a fresh customer Q&A! If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming email reply to this and let us know!

Peace, love, and savings,

Matt, Meredith, and the whole Boredwalk team

YOU OTHER BAKERS CAN'T DENY

Happy National Bundt Day!

Fun fact: "Bundt" should always be capitalized because it is a trademark of the cookware manufacturer Nordic Ware, who began manufacturing the pans in the 1950s in the style of traditional European gugelhupf cakes.

Corollary fact: "Bundt" as a descriptor only applies to the shape of the cakes baked in Bundt pans, not to a specific cake recipe.

Bizarre linguistic fact: the correct pronunciation of Bundt has always included the "t" sound at the end, but the correct spelling of the cakes is "bund." Nordic Ware added the not-so-silent t at the end to both secure their trademark and make the spelling and pronunciation aligned so the pans would be easier to market.

Yeah, I know, more about Bundts than you ever wanted to know. I promise there are fun links further down, just bear with me.

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Today is also National Recycling Day, National Drummer Day, and National Family Civility Day. Celebrate all four of these random occasions by using your old Bundt pans as percussive instruments, but only during daylight hours so as not to be un-civil toward your family!

Alright, before we get to those links, let's take note of some famous events and birthdays from November 15ths of yore. Maybe yours! If it is, happy birthday! 

• In 1920 the first assembly of the League of Nations (which would eventually morph into the United Nations) was held in Geneva, Switzerland

• In 1968 the Cleveland Transit System became the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport. The snarky among us may be tempted to make a snide joke about this being necessary because people are so desperate to flee Cleveland, but I have been to The Cleve and it is much nicer than you think/remember. Don't knock it!

• In 2001 Microsoft launched the Xbox game console

• In 2022 the global (human) population reached 8 billion. That's a relief, because every time I leave the house I immediately think to myself "this is fine, but it could be better if there were more people for me to navigate around and be forced to interact with."

• Birthday Bundts all around for: Modernist painter and "flower" enthusiast Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Disney and Peanuts television special animator and voice actor of Snoopy & Woodstock Bill Melendez (1916), actor Ed Asner of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Elf, Up, and DC animated universe fame (1929), English novelist & short story writer J.G. Ballard of Empire of the Sun and The Atrocity Exhibition fame (1930), English singer-songwriter Petula Clark of 'Downtown' fame (1932), early R&B and rock 'n' roll singer Clyde McPhatter (1932), actor & screenwriter Yaphet Kotto of Alien and Homicide: Life on the Streets fame (1939), actor Sam Waterston of Law & Order fame (1940), Malaysian fashion designer Jimmy Choo of very expensive shoe fame (1948), actress Beverly D'Angelo of National Lampoon's Family Vacation film franchise fame (1951), pro wrestling icon Randy "Macho Man" Savage (1952), drummer Tony Thompson of Chic and Power Station fame (1954), comedian & actress Judy Gold (1962), actress Rachel True of The Craft and Half Baked fame (1966), rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard (1968), English-American actor Jonny Lee Miller of Hackers and Trainspotting fame (1972), and actor Asia Kate Dillon of Orange Is The New Black and Billions fame (1984)

Now on to the amusing links!

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1. 🧙🏼‍♀️ We owe you an apology

We may have become soft over the course of the previous millennium, but we are committed to doing better by bringing terrifying old school retribution into the 21st century.

For more LOLs from our team be sure to follow us on our OG social accounts such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and/or Facebook.

2. 🪓 This (home)town isn't big enough for the two of us

Comedian Alina Bock finally gives us the Hallmark content we've been searching for! 

3. 😱 Just say NO to ventriloquism classes!

Don't be a dummy like Joe Brogie, lest you become an accomplice to a puppet's armed robbery scheme

4. 🖨️ I've never seen that computer before in my life

Creator Julie Story really nails IT network dysfunction with this skit about a reluctant desktop printer.

5. 😾 Daylight Saving Time sounds like a YOU problem, human

Penny the ginger cat is not interested in your fickle human temporal constructs. She wants dinner, and she wants it NOW.

6. 👻 BONUS: Spooky business!

OK! We'll be back here in your inbox on Friday — possibly with more nonsense holidays to dissect, more notable birthdays (and maybe even some notable deathdays!) to celebrate, and more witty content in general. Maybe even some *gasp* new art! Until then...

Peace, love, and the biggest of Bundts,

Matt