Originally Posted by Mutt

i dunno - in the US Thanksgiving is a holiday to celebrate a truce between native Indians and the first English settlers who in reality were religious kooks called the Pilgrims. In Canada Thanksgiving is a celebration that the fall harvest season is over.

traditional Thanksgiving dinner is turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie etc

it's a big holiday for college kids who are away from home - usually their first trip home since leaving home in august/sept for college. in many families it is one of the few holidays where people travel from all over to get together.

these days it's really become the official start of the Christmas shopping season.

Originally Posted by POed-poster

Thanksgiving is simple. It is a day for theocrats to thank their loving god for leading them to their promised land by stealing it from pagans, murdering them into converting to Christianity, warehousing them on reservations, stripping every last bit of dignity from them, addicting them to alcoholism and drugs, and letting them kill themselves. Praise the holy sheep a JESSSUS!

Originally Posted by DJ The Kid

Happy "Come to the new land, kick out and kill all the Indians and later historically forget about it so we eat turkey instead" day!

Originally Posted by Agent 488

it's based around an old american tradition of torturing and beheading the pagans. the torture was so painful that the pagans would be thankful to finally die, thus 'thanks'-giving.

now of course it has mellow somewhat, and is mainly a day for men to get together and lock the womenfolk in the kitchen while they get drunk and watch beefy men in tight clothes on tv.