Thanksgiving Thread

Happy thanks giving man, have one for the other members here...

*Grabs 27th coor from cooler*

Sheers... *hic*
Did I ever tell you that I loved you all sho much...

You won't last long at that rate & the Wingding is about....

You left with us???? I got to hear this......

First Thanksgiving at Berkeley Hundred in Virginia

On December 4, 1619, a group of 38 English settlers arrived at Berkeley Hundred, comprised of about eight thousand acres (32 km²) on the north bank of the James River near Herring Creek in an area then known as Charles Cittie (sic) about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown, where the first permanent settlement of the Colony of Virginia was established on May 14, 1607.

The group's charter required that the day of arrival be observed yearly as a "day of thanksgiving" to God. On that first day, Captain John Woodleaf held the service of thanksgiving. Here is the section of the Charter of Berkeley Hundred which specifies the thanksgiving service:

"Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty god." [10]

During the Indian Massacre of 1622, nine of the settlers at Berkeley Hundred were killed, as well as about a third of the entire population of the Virginia Colony. The Berkeley Hundred site and other other outlying locations were abandoned as the colonists withdrew to Jamestown and other more secure point.

After several years, the site became Berkeley Plantation, and was long the traditional home of the Harrison family, one of the First Families of Virginia. In 1634, it became part of the first eight shires of Virginia, as Charles City County, one of the oldest in the United States, and is located along Virginia State Route 5, which runs parallel to the river's northern borders past sites of many of the James River Plantations between the colonial capital city of Williamsburg (now the site of Colonial Williamsburg) and the the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia at Richmond.

Berkeley Plantation has long been the site of an annual Thanksgiving event; President George W. Bush will visit Berekeley to give a Thanksgiving address this year

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From earlier on the same page. 'Has became known as' is not the same as 'is'. Either way your Thanksgiving is a mutation of a Harvest Festival. I will now stop, put fingers in my ears and pull tongues at you yelling 'Nah, nah na Nah na'. Else I'll hear how such festivals pre-date Christianity in Egypt.

LOL good one there Tom!!!

I'd wish you a Happy Thanksgiving if you had one.... Being as you don't, I"ll wish you a Happy Several Scoops at the battle cruiser.....

BTW Canada has a Boxer Day (I believe it's called) that is there Thanksgiving.... It's in Oct. though...

We do, at least in schools, still celebrate Harvest Festival. Harvest festivals are traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon. This is the full moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox (about Sept. 23).

I hope that you get an especially atrocious form of food poisoning and that your innards fall out your bottom [/charming]

I hope the season brings you its traditional bout of violent stomach cramps.

I'm going out tonight. Maybe I can find one at half price. Since that's the deal I got last year. NOW that's if any birds left.

Happy Thanksgiving RC.

Happy Thanksgiving right back at you Man!!!! Have a great one!!!!

Hey happy Thanksgiving everyone

Happy Thanksgiving to you Man!!!!

Don't worry, I won't pull an Auburn!!!!

happy thanksgiving fcukers

Happy Thanksgiving all!!!!

Gobble Gobble.....

*puts out pan of hot cinnamon buns out with link sausage & coffee*

*coffee O La this morning*

*Blinks*

We've already had enough dump for the day.... Woke up to 2" of snow on the ground & still snowing!!!! First snow of the year...

You lucky sod...
God damn it snow is awesome to watch fall down and even funnier to throw it at someone.
Put some stones in, hopefully you'll cause cuts and bruises to the head.

Just throw some animals onto the road.

Psssttt.. Hey Tom you can tell Bernard M we managed to dispose of those Turkeys he was having that trouble with..[/Just Business]

No alchohol for me either. Home sick as a dog while the wife and kids are at the in-laws.


*sigh*

Your legs wish you ate like that everyday too.