Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?

[great lover]

Is it because of Lincoln or is it because of Sarah?

Did we need excuses to celebrate more holidays?

 

[whtwlf1790]

Is it because of Lincoln or is it because of Sarah?

Did we need excuses to celebrate more holidays?

Are you being rhetorical

 

[great lover]

Are you being rhetorical

No. I am not!

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

Because nobody likes to eat like an American. Other countries have their own Thanksgivings but they pale in comparison to the gluttony of the USA. We're pigs.
That being said, it's actually a nice holiday. Football, food, family. It's all anyone needs.

 

[great lover]

Because nobody likes to eat like an American. Other countries have their own Thanksgivings but they pale in comparison to the gluttony of the USA. We're pigs.
That being said, it's actually a nice holiday. Football, food, family. It's all anyone needs.

Don't forget the alcohol!
Buncha drunk uncles who you see twice a year!

 

[lemonbread]

Because it's the day the pilgrims and the native americans set aside their differences and celebrated and ate together! ... Until the pilgrims killed most of them and took their land and gave them malaria and all those other things... But it's only the one day that counted.

 

[great lover]

Because it's the day the pilgrims and the native americans set aside their differences and celebrated and ate together! ... Until the pilgrims killed most of them and took their land and gave them malaria and all those other things... But it's only the one day that counted.

Malaria? Didn't North America have mosquitoes before the Europeans came over?

 

[lemonbread]

Malaria? Didn't North America have mosquitoes before the Europeans came over?

It was some disease. Smallpox maybe? That sounds more legit.

I failed american history.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

It's not a federal law that you must celebrate. That's coming later.

 

[whtwlf1790]

It was some disease. Smallpox maybe? That sounds more legit.

I failed american history.

Small pox was pilgrims, malaria was the slaves

 

[great lover]

Fox news had a segment today where one viewer answered that the Pilgrims came to America in 1492 on the Santa Maria, Nina and the Pinta!

 

[whtwlf1790]

Fox news had a segment today where one viewer answered that the Pilgrims came to America in 1492 on the Santa Maria, Nina and the Pinta!

Close but no cigar

 

[great lover]

It's not a federal law that you must celebrate. That's coming later.

We establish tradition and then it robs us of our freedom by chaining us to it.

 

[gypsyTX]

So we can eat turkey. I'm not prepping and roasting a 15 pound bird just for the four of us.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Lets re-cycle Thanksgiving for our Muslim folks, maybe celebrate 9/11 as Allah Akbar Day. Then we need a day for the wetbacks.

First thing you know government workers wont need to go to work at all.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Because abundance of food means I'm entitled to be wasteful and eat many thousands of calories I don't need but really enjoy ....until post holidays.

 

[kbate]

I do not celebrate it in the traditional manner, but rather I go out and spread assorted diseases among the local population in order that they might die off quickly, allowing me to get their land at lower prices. This year it's botulism that I'm spreading, as I'm all out of smallpox and plague.

 

[Bookishleigh]

I do not celebrate it in the traditional manner, but rather I go out and spread assorted diseases among the local population in order that they might die off quickly, allowing me to get their land at lower prices. This year it's botulism that I'm spreading, as I'm all out of smallpox and plague.

Botulism....nice. I mean the plague was so last year anyway and smallpox...well, people will just confuse that with chickenpox and start having smallpox parties making your job way too easy.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Lets re-cycle Thanksgiving for our Muslim folks, maybe celebrate 9/11 as Allah Akbar Day. Then we need a day for the wetbacks.

First thing you know government workers wont need to go to work at all.

And A.H.s b-day can be your kinds! Oops, he didn't end up well did he! Maybe VE day should be the new Thanksgiving.

 

[Hypoxia]

1) Tradition
2) Pagan hoiliday
3) Screw the Injuns
4) Family get-together
5) Winter fun in some places
6) Black Friday follows -- shopping!!

 

[great lover]

I dreamed yesterday that we had a national festival of shopping. I wonder if any other country can beat us at shopping!