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Happy Thanksgiving

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:21 pm
by neophyte
To all who are celebrating today, Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the pie!

:D

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:51 pm
by Burrito
ditto!

Although, for those who aren't celebrating, I envy you.

this glutenous holiday is a waste of printing ink on the calendar. I'm still not certain about why we celebrate it. We force ourselves to eat until we need to be rolled out of the dining room or worse wheeled out on a dolly...

if I had my drothers, we'd just get the two days off from work and go golfing. Sure that's a choice I guess I could make on my own, but there's something about the air on this day that just compells you to force baked bird down your throat until you're virtually ill. Then when the bird settles, you must top it off with some mashed potatoes and stuffing and if that weren't enough, some wild rice just to really pack it all in.

We had big plans this year to eat crab legs instead, but my son insisted that we cook a turkey (I guess to keep the tradition). After cooking the bird and realizing how much friggin' food we had, we elected to save the legs for another day...so much for plans.

anyway, happy thanksgiving!

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:55 pm
by neophyte
$Thanksgiving = $lotsOpie;

That's the number one reason.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:09 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Hi, I'm *really* showing my ignorance here.... I'm from the UK (and I live a sheltered life :P). What *exactly* is thanksgiving? :oops:

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:34 pm
by John Cartwright
Burrito wrote:if I had my drothers, we'd just get the two days off from work and go golfing.
Its like you read my mind :lol:

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:20 pm
by neophyte
d11wtq wrote:Hi, I'm *really* showing my ignorance here.... I'm from the UK (and I live a sheltered life :P). What *exactly* is thanksgiving? :oops:
Thanksgiving commorates the end of the first year after the Pilgrms landed at Plymouth Mass. in 1621 or whatever. It became an official national holiday in 1941. Americans get together with family and friends eat insane amounts of food. Traditionally the food includes: turkey, stuffing, gravy, green bean caserole, cranberry sauce, rolls, and lots of pie. The weekend after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping days of the year.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:23 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Ah.... Nice :)

Food... Hmmmm :D I'm actually already thinking about my xmas dinner -- seriously :P

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:38 pm
by shiznatix
d11wtq wrote:Hi, I'm *really* showing my ignorance here.... I'm from the UK (and I live a sheltered life :P). What *exactly* is thanksgiving? :oops:
its to celebrate the beginning of the slaughter of the native americans by european settlers in america.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:55 pm
by neophyte
shiznatix wrote:
d11wtq wrote:Hi, I'm *really* showing my ignorance here.... I'm from the UK (and I live a sheltered life :P). What *exactly* is thanksgiving? :oops:
its to celebrate the beginning of the slaughter of the native americans by european settlers in america.
You can't apply 20th century thought to 17th century history. While the treatment of America's natives was horrible, I don't think anything can be gained by judging 17th Century settlers with 20th century thought.

The real travesty in our time is the effect of totalitarian goverment. More people were killed by their own goverments in the 20th century than all of the wars in the 20th century combined. Remember the "Democide" in Rwanda, Belgian Congo, and the Ukraine.

The purpose of Thanksgiving is to be grateful that we don't live under a Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, and so forth. Compared to those nefarious individuals G.W. Bush is only an SOB.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:24 pm
by josh
neophyte wrote:Compared to those nefarious individuals G.W. Bush is only an SOB.
Think again, he is directly responsible for deaths of many American soldiers, and innocent Iraqis, that aside his policy towards the environment will indirectly kill millions of our descendants. Depleted uranium used as ammunition releases a chemical that has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. Just look at gulf war syndrome.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:40 pm
by neophyte
It was not my intention to start this thread to have a politics/history/government debate. I think that's against forum rules anyway.

So I'll just say Happy Thanksgiving and leave it at that...

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:50 pm
by Buddha443556
At the risk of being politically incorrect ... Happy Thanksgivings!

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:54 pm
by josh
happy tur-kay day

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:56 pm
by evilmonkey
jshpro2 wrote:
neophyte wrote:Compared to those nefarious individuals G.W. Bush is only an SOB.
Think again, he is directly responsible for deaths of many American soldiers, and innocent Iraqis, that aside his policy towards the environment will indirectly kill millions of our descendants. Depleted uranium used as ammunition releases a chemical that has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. Just look at gulf war syndrome.
Come on, give it a reast already, Bush has been beaten to death. Let the man finish his second term, and vote for someone else. Happy Thanksgiving to all the Americans, Canadian Thanksgiving was over a month ago.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:28 pm
by John Cartwright
Just letting you guys no talking politics is against forum rules..