@KratosMD Alas I may buy concrete genie and i got the Spiderman Season pass but that is it. I am trying to persuade my wife to get me a Switch Lite for Christmas. It is not going well.
Now I may be an idiot, but there's one thing I am not sir, and that sir, is an idiot
@Arugula Ha... I have to basically tell my wife what I want or I will get anything and everything. She worries I already have things so gets me something so off the wall I don’t actually want it!
Now I may be an idiot, but there's one thing I am not sir, and that sir, is an idiot
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Thanks! As you well know, we Americans ritually sacrifice a turkey every year to celebrate the age-old relationship of trust and good faith we descendants of white European invaders settlers established with the native people here.
On a more serious note: it's good to hear you're feeling a little better.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy The celebration itself is more of a cultural artifact derived from the harvest festivals celebrated by the pilgrims. The natives that showed up at that particular harvest festival were from the Wampanoag tribe. They brought a small army (nearly 100 men, I believe) to help cement a mutual-defense agreement the pilgrims had signed with their chief. Part of the reason for this agreement, by the way, was due to the tribe's weakened defenses due to diseases introduced to the region by the European settlers. The settlers kept expanding their territory, and mistrust and mutual violence led to King Philip's War, which decimated the tribe. Of the few hundred tribe members who survived, many of the women and children were essentially used as slave labor.
The Thanksgiving tradition itself didn't become a nationally celebrated holiday until around the end of the American Civil War, though. Abraham Lincoln made it a federal holiday upon some urging by activists with the idea of it being a unifying tradition after a war that killed far more Americans than any other conflict before or since. Businesses also used it as a way to encourage investment in southern territories, many of which were shattered during the war.
We went to NYC and New England for our honeymoon earlier this year. We currently live in Devon nearish to Plymouth and it is amazing how over half the people we spoke to had relatives that were on the Mayflower!
They must have bred like rabbits or something to manage to populate 50% of that part of the US
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Thanks for the holiday well wishes! Very kind of you.
Yeah, Thanksgiving is sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas and more and more just seems like it has become “Black Friday Eve.” But I guess the international community can be happy for at least the fact that Lincoln ratified an annual Thursday holiday where most Americans are sitting around off of work the next day, wanting to find an activity to get away from their family and it was conveniently one month before Christmas. Viola! Black Friday was born. A commercial and economic dream. I’m sure it’s exactly what the nation’s Founders had in mind. A day where Americans can stand in line outside of Wal-Mart pushing and shoving their fellow neighbors to get to the big ticket items.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@RogerRoger Ha, ha! No, but that’s not a Denzel! bad idea. I think Benedict! I might have to Harrison! start entering some of Keira! my favorite actors and actresses into Cate! my posts. Like some Jodie! sort of tic or something.
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