Who thought up that stupid holiday anyway?
Here is a place to go and find out where EVERY SINGLE holiday started.
I wondered where Thanksgiving started, and found this site had some good information about it. I KNEW that T-giving was a politially based holiday, figured it was started by turkey farmers with the help of politicians to give them something to do with all those stupid birds they were raising. By the way, in Montana, when the turkey crosses the road, the locals just run them over...this is a picture from our vacation in May, we tourists had to stop and take a picture of a turkey.
According to this site:"Thanksgiving was erratically recognized until 1827 when Sarah Joseph Hale started a campaign to make it a national holiday. She was the editor of the Boston's Ladies Magazine at the time. Finally at her persistence, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it a national holiday in on October 3, 1863. He set the date as the last Thursday in November."
Ok, so all that stress and cost and BS going on in YOUR house is the fault of some damn woman who wanted a holiday, and her insessant bitching to President Lincoln that lead to it.
As for me - I don't do it. I'm thankful every single day, not just the last Thursday in November. Hell, what if I were to die on the day before? Would I have wasted all the chances to be thankful all year just because the holiday hadn't come and I wasn't seated around the table with a bunch of free-loaders who just showed up to pig out and leave the mess for me?? My daughter does the big feed with her man's family - somewhere around 25 of them all circled around the feed trough, each telling something they are thankful for.
I'd something like: I'm thankful the HIV test was negative, or I'm thankful for Depends, or I'm thankful the Russian Roulette tournament ended in a tie (the gun jammed), or I'm thankful that my bra-fitting was so successful, I'm thankful the wire on the breathalizer hooked to my car broke off so I could get here tonight, I'm thankful the pregnancy test was negative, I'm thankful the DNA test showed that little Shalomar's daddy isn't OJ Simpson, I'm thankful the camera at the bank was broken, I'm thankful for vaginal itch relief cream....
HEY, what are YOU thankful for????????????
posted by Jana @ 8:55 AM
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I'm thankful for the interests of Big Turkey giving us all a day off.
I think your story is not quite right ! Originally Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday to give thanks at the conclusion of the harvest season. Read the whole story here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
As an European last year I got so fat up with all this Thanksgiving stuff and menues on the blogs that I wanted to know where it came from and why Americans are so crazy about that (I also thought about the poor turkys, lol)
I am never thankful for something only when I get a gift from somebody all other things which happen to me I consider that I was lucky or I had chance.To whom should I be thankful ? To myself ? Because I just had luck in something ? BTW I am back from Egypgt and had a wonderful time with my girlfriends there ! We felt like Teenager, lol !
I know you don't like Thanksgiving but nevertheless I wish you a happy day !
I don't have this problem, my ancestors haven't been pilgrims and not on the Mayflower but stayed in Europe, so we have to eat the Turkey on Christmas, lol !
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