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Nick_29 said:
JoJo said:
[quote="Nick_29":oqtdbeuv]I've never really 'got' Thanksgiving. What's the big deal?
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Oh Nick, Nick, Nick. Twould that you could experience the grand tradition of this holiday! But you're not alone. My brother-in-law is from England and he doesn't get it either.

Here is my summary of a typical Thanksgiving in America:

Friends and family gather together to eat. A lot. And watch football. And Thanksgiving sort of officially starts the Christmas season around here. We have "black Friday" (the day after Thanksgiving) where people who have money to spend go hog-wild at the stores shopping for Christmas presents. Supposedly some good sales out there. I wouldn't know...I NEVER shop the day after Thanksgiving. But anyway, all of that happens because we are thankful for our freedoms. *grin*
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Oh ok. So in essense it's a celebration of American freedom and capitalism?[/quote:oqtdbeuv]
if you are really bored look up the plymouth rock, mass bay colonoly, john smith and the mayflower pact, that's where we got the idea and it has morphed into was it is now.
 
I never, ever, ever shop on black Friday. Not me.

Thanksgiving is just a really cool holiday steeped in tradition. It was started by the pilgrims in order to give thanks for the Lord's provision after a really rough start in the colony. They invited local Indians to come and share in the feast. It has since morphed into pretty much what JoJo has said. In the tradition of having guests, we've always had family and friends in to share our Thanksgiving meal. In our house, we start the meal off with a prayer in which everyone voices to the Lord something they are thankful for for the year. A turkey dinner with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, yams, and pumpkin pie and other side dishes are all necessary for the proper observation of the holiday. Then watching football, playing board games, and just having fun after the meal. Then, the best Thanksgiving day tradition of all, the first Turkey sandwich later on when one becomes a bit peckish again. I'm very traditional when it comes to the turkey sandwich. I like it on white bread with lots of mayo, piled with both white and dark meat, and washed down with cold milk. Others like to dress up their turkey sandwich, but I stick with the basic.

And, as JoJo mentioned, Thanksgiving also is supposed to be the start of the Christmas holiday season. I hate it when I hear Christmas music before Thanksgiving, but boy, after Thanksgiving it's all Christmas music all the time. I pull out all the family favorite Christmas movies (A Christmas Story being the all-time favorite). I never, ever go shopping on black Friday. I decorate the house for Christmas instead. Except for the tree. We usually don't get a tree until later in December.

So what, with the over-eating of plentiful and fattening foods, Football, shopping and Christmas craziness, yep, Thanksgiving is uniquely American.

Nick, I think you're at a disadvantage being in Australia. Thanksgiving is supposed to be a holiday for Fall, when the harvest is in and the days are getting cold and crisp. I don't think I could stomach a complete Turkey Dinner with stuffing and all the trimmings when it's 95 degrees outside. Thanksgiving is supposed to be cozy. There is nothing cozy about 95 degree temperatures, especially if one is making a huge meal over a hot stove.
 
Thanksgiving I had always believed was a day to count your blessings. For do we not all have something to be grateful for? Football has never been a part of any celebration on my part of this time. So I do feel that the football thing is more of a stereotype. Then, I do not know all there is to know of the holidays. For I have been taught that Thanksgiving began with the coming of the pilgrims coming away from a land they felt opressed spiritually within or otherwise. Then...maybe it is just me. I am not so big on the commercialism.
 
Yeah, we don't watch football in our family on Thanksgiving either...I never could get into that game :shrug Even when we were in England, my mother would always keep us kids home from school on Thanksgiving and 4th of July just to celebrate as a family. We didn't get a turkey, but usually would do a home made honey glazed ham...YUM! Thanksgiving is sort of like Christmas without the gifts...you get together with family and eat 'til your eyes water :)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and merry Christmas as well :thumb
 
And then there is the very important Thanksgiving tradition of the Presidential Turkey pardon. This year's turkey, Courage, was a beauty. When looking at him, President Obama quipped, "It's a good thing Sasha and Mahlia intervened, because I was going to eat this sucker!" :lol Courage now gets to go to Disneyland and be grand marshal in the Thanksgiving Day parade.

They kept saying how there is a "turkey runner-up" named Carolina that will fulfill Courage's duties in case Courage cannot do them. Yeah, I wonder if the reason why Courage might not be able to "fulfill" his duties is because he's "filled" someone's tummy.
 
Happy thanks giving to everyone and Merry Christmas..Im so happy I can now spent some time with my family this coming holidays,, we will have a 10 day vacation at work.. :)
 
handy said:
Wow! You get 6 weeks for Christmas in Australia!?! We only got 2 weeks. Lucky you!
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They need more vacation, what with spending their entire lives upside-down.
 
Hahaha! That cracks me up. You really are upside down, Nick! I'm kinda sticking out from the side, I guess. LOL
 
JoJo said:
Hahaha! That cracks me up. You really are upside down, Nick! I'm kinda sticking out from the side, I guess. LOL
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Where's "the side"? Perhaps I am upside down. :biggrin But if all I ever known was upside down, then that in fact would be the right way up..for me. So if I ever went to America, I would, in fact, to myself, be upside down.

:lol :tongue
 
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