Happy Thanksgiving

[mhatter106]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone... except those in Canada
In which case, Happy Belated Thanksgiving.

and except those in other countries
In which case... hey it's Thursday again, huh.

[Chris_Lightfellow]

Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.

[Pollensalta]

indeed.
I'm gonna be eating good for about 2 weeks.

[Shinsengumi]

To the world happy thanksgiving

[mhatter106]

Behold my contribution to thanksgiving dinner:


Delicious.

[Oppenheimer]

I'm glad to see you noticed that Canada has an earlier Thanksgiving. I had a good one, although it seems like ages ago now.

[mhatter106]

I'm from near the border of Canada, north of Buffalo. I love Canada.

[Iku]

erm... what is thanksgiving? i know its a holiday, but what are you all being thankful for? i really haven't a clue! oh yeah why do you have fireworks on the the 4th of july? sorry for the questions!

[mhatter106]

Thanksgiving in long story short:
1620 - Pilgrims come from England to America land around Massachusetts
They suffer through a really hard winter with the help of Indians. Like 80% of them die.
Afterwards, the Pilgrims and Indians throw a party and feast to celebrate the fact that they survived (well 20% of them did at least), and made friends and are thankful for it.

(Note Canadians celebrate somethign entirely different. Somethig abotu an explorer who tried to find the Northwest Passage, but got hungry and ate big.)

If you click on that picture of the cranberry in the can i put above, I wrote an article about Thanksgiving, but you might not really get it if you're not familiar with the holiday.

Fourth of July-We shoot firewroks because Americans are easily entertained by bright lights and loud sounds.
That's really all there is to it I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Iku]

oh your fourth of july is like our 5th of november! we're just celebrating a bomb plot gone wrong in the same way!

[mhatter106]

well i guess. but also 4th of july is our independence day, when we signed the declaration of independence to break away from.. well.. you. (Well, not YOU specifically.)


btw, whats this about a "bomb plot"? (Usually I only hear that phrase in association with a Rob Schneider movie)

[Iku]

guy fawkes wanted to blow up the houses of parliment so him and some other rebels/terrorists got together and tried to do it, the government was corrupt, they failed but the government got scared and were overthrown! its their as a reminder to the governmnet that their working for us and not the other way round!
teehhe!
wow its really interesting, im gonna read your article!

[mhatter106]

Is that a national holiday then (nov5)? Does it have a specific name?

[Iku]

bon fire night/ guy fawke's, i dont thiks theres an actual name for it! rather perculiar really!

[mhatter106]

do people get off from school/work?