BS: Thanksgiving

Subject: BS: Thanksgiving
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 27 Nov 02 - 02:41 PM

Wanted to wish all of you a great Thanksgiving. Be well -

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving
From: SharonA
Date: 27 Nov 02 - 03:07 PM

You too, Steve! Take care.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone,
Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving
From: GUEST,Wordless Woman
Date: 27 Nov 02 - 03:16 PM

I thought this quote appropriate to the spirit of Thanksgiving:

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony. -William Henry Channing, clergyman, reformer (1810-1884)

if you're celebrating Thanksgiving, enjoy it. If you're not, have a joyful day anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving
From: mg
Date: 27 Nov 02 - 07:21 PM

Amen. Happy Thanksgiving. Drive Safe. Eat More Cranberries. They are very healthy and my job depends on it. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving
From: InOBU
Date: 27 Nov 02 - 08:00 PM

To repete our old family tradition for you all, a wee reprint...

Ever since the first Otway fell off the boat into the new world, we celbrate Thanksgiving by remembering the story of the frist thanksgiving. They youngest child, generally the only one sober enough to speak, tells this story, before joining the adults in a gin and tonic.... Story of the First Thanksgiving…

It was the night before Christmas, and the Pilgrims where feeling a bit peckish, after the long swim from England, the Mayflower having hit an iceberg and sank. Captain Smith ordered the woman and children into the life boats first, as he knew that there were not enough boats for all, an old tradition in the British maritime, only to find they had forgotten the life boats all together. Although they were still in the Themes Estuary and a scant 10 minute swim to Wapping, they decided that as long as they were already wet, they'd go for it and struck out for New York. On the way they talked it over and decided that as long as they were going through all the trouble they might as well swim to Massachusetts so that their grandkids would all be rich New Englanders in stead of poor New Yorkers, and who wanted to live in a city where the Mayor was a bad tempered Dutch guy with a wooden leg who called the place New Amsterdam anyway, so I am getting off the point, it was time for dinner.
So there were Indians there also, John Smith and his wife Pocahontas, because she was tired of her dad chasing her husband John around with an axe every time he made the same old joke "Hey, did the White guys pay the rent yet?".
Christopher Columbus got the place of honor at the head of the table. He was very old at this point, and probably dead, but was such a figure of respect that no one told him, but rather made sure the head of the table was down wind from everyone and they didn't ask Chris to carve the turkey or they'd all starve. The Turkeys were much larger then, as it was a long time ago and they were still evolving from their Dinosaur ancestors, so one or two fed all of New England, and there was still some left to make clothes out of. So, now you know why we pardon a Turkey at the white house every year, then chop its head off and eat it. Happy Thanks Giving to all and to all a good night, after a little Alka-Seltzer
Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving
From: mack/misophist
Date: 27 Nov 02 - 09:56 PM

Steh gesundt, alles.

I love trivia. Here's some Thanksgiving trivia. When I was in school, they taught the storey of the Indian, Squanto, who taught the colonists to plant corn with "trash' fish at regular intervals for fertilizer. This greatly increases the yield. THIS IS A TRUE STOREY!! What the text book authors didn't seem to know is that Squanto learned the trick from English settlers in Newfoundland.

Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving
From: bflat
Date: 28 Nov 02 - 12:15 AM

I hope you have something to be thankful for and express it. Hope your day is joyful and pleasant.

Ellen