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| | | (...) Well, I can give you the date: The fourth Thursday in November. That's how it works. But as for the holiday itself, it's very steeped in lore--a lot of it contradictory--but in short it's time to "give thanks" for good fortune. The context of (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Bad News! Plane down in NYC —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) Is that anything like an eye-bitin' monkey????? ROSCO (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Thanksgiving at the Eye-Bitin' Monkey's Place —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) I...I don't know. Ask Richard. They don't have our T'giving, but they do have a Canada Day, which IIRC involves the occasional stuffed bird (or bitin' monkey, those Canajun' customs are so very exotic and confusing). LFB (whose family is (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Thanksgiving at the Eye-Bitin' Monkey's Place —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | | Mr L F Braun wrote in message ... (...) Speaking as an imported Brit, Canajuns do have Thanks^H^H^H^Hurkey Day, just a month earlier than you guys (here in the frozen North, y'know, gotta have it before we get snowed in!) Not to be confused with (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Bad News! Plane down in NYC —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | (...) An Kuwaiti- American friend of mine always tells me that a holiday atmosphere exists in many homes (and work places) in the USA from the week before Thanksgiving to the week after Xmas. How true is that? Scott A (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Bad News! Plane down in NYC —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) In our family there has always been a break. We usually didn't start the Christmas preparations until a week or two before. Commercially there certainly is no break (the holiday season for retail these days seems to be all year, but certainly (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Bad News! Plane down in NYC —Frank Filz
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| | | | | (...) I always thought of it as the closest Thursday to the 25th. Both methods yield the same date, which can range from the 22nd to the 28th. Canada also celebrates a Thanksgiving, but theirs is on a different date. It's basically a harvest (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Bad News! Plane down in NYC —Pedro Silva
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| | | | (...) Can one draw a parallel to the way Easter is celebrated among catholic cultures? Not in the religious sense, but in the overall outcome. (holidays!) (...) Yeah? (Like I didn't know *this*... :-) Cool, I love turkey! One of these days I'll go (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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