WHAT A DAY !!
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twenty minutes. Half-times take twenty minutes. This is not coincidence.---
.."Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments."- Mark Twain.
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.."Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving."- Charles Lamb.
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.."What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving ?"- Erma Bombeck , "No One Diets on Thanksgiving", 26 November 1981.
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.."Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night."- Irving Berlin.
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P.S. This is post # 500
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P.S. This is post # 500