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Shark Week: Euphemism for a Woman's Menstrual Period  
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Shark week is upon us again. Here's what you don't know about the series. What do you know?

	Longest-running series on cable.
	First aired in 1988.
	Alaskan comedy duo Danny Tanner's Rainbow Militia have a song called "Shark Week" dedicated to the week-long feature in which they express their wish for Shark Week to become Shark Year.
	In the 2004 film The Girl Next Door, while frantically driving Matthew Kidman to his scholarship banquet, Klitz quietly tells an unseen friend on a cell phone that he can't watch Shark Week right now, but asks that he tape it.
	The Christian parody band Apologetix has a song "We're in a Parody Band" with a line encouraging people to come to a charity dance despite it being Shark Week.
	In recent years, Shark Week has sometimes been used as an amusing euphemism for a woman's menstrual period.
	News comedian Stephen Colbert featured a small segment on The Colbert Report in which he found that sand (especially people being trapped in their own sand holes) has been responsible for more fatalities in the United States than shark attacks, prompting him to suggest the Discovery Channel hold an annual Sand Week.
	Shark Week has become a prominent feature of the webcomic Hockey Zombie.
	On the animated TV series the Simpsons, Homer was about to leave Maggie under the supervision of "Grandma Shark Week."

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