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Re: Bad News! Plane down in NYC
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:05:34 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> > > LFB (who is most emphatically not flying home for Thanksgiving!)
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> > WHEN IS Thanksgiving? That is something I've always wondered about American
> > tradition - it is often portrayed in films as a Xmas-like festivity, with
> > the whole family reunited at meals. But the date is never mentioned, unlike
> > the 4th of July... Can you tell me more about it?
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> Well, I can give you the date: The fourth Thursday in November.
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 celebration, though fairly late in the season.
It's all about family and eating and (American) football, and is
relatively non-religious. This is the biggest day for high school, but
is also a big day for pro-football.
My parents used to host our families gathering, which mostly consisted
of my mother's mother and descendants (and their immediate families),
though my dad's parents would come for a while in the afternoon (they
didn't like to drive at night so they had a noon-time dinner at a
restaurant and then came down to our place, our dinner started at 4 PM
or so), and occasionally my dad's brother would come. One year we had
something like 30 people for dinner (if we had a gathering these days
with the same rules, and everyone came, we'd have something like 60
people). These days we have pretty small gatherings. I hope to have the
days off to be able to drive down to Florida where my mom and one of her
sisters live. Last year we had four, this year it might be a couple more
with one or two of my cousins joining us.
Frank
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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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