With Canadian Thanksgiving next Monday, I wanted to wish all my fellow f-netters at Happy Thanksgiving! Cheers!
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"But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic & that’s what makes my life so f'cking fantastic"~ Lily Allen
By the time a woman realizes that her mother was right, she already has a daughter who's convinced she's wrong.
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"But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic & that’s what makes my life so f'cking fantastic"~ Lily Allen
By the time a woman realizes that her mother was right, she already has a daughter who's convinced she's wrong.
Lol! Happy thanksgiving, Fencergrl. You gonna come visit UWO and fence with us some time?
__________________ In Flanders fields the poppies grow - Between the crosses, row on row, - That mark our place, and in the sky, - The larks, still bravely singing, fly, - Scarce heard amid the guns below. ~John McCrae
Happy Thanksgiving back at you! As for your dreaded Province... yikes! couldn't you pick a nicer place to live? <shudder> I really don't like Ontario... even to visit.
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"But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic & that’s what makes my life so f'cking fantastic"~ Lily Allen
By the time a woman realizes that her mother was right, she already has a daughter who's convinced she's wrong.
Everything? I just imagined one of those naked sushi girls covered in bacon instead of sushi...
I think that if your family tradition is naked sushi girls, I suspect you're going to have a lot of fencers dropping by your house this November.
__________________
"But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic & that’s what makes my life so f'cking fantastic"~ Lily Allen
By the time a woman realizes that her mother was right, she already has a daughter who's convinced she's wrong.
__________________
"But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic & that’s what makes my life so f'cking fantastic"~ Lily Allen
By the time a woman realizes that her mother was right, she already has a daughter who's convinced she's wrong.
Happy Thanksgiving back at you! As for your dreaded Province... yikes! couldn't you pick a nicer place to live? <shudder> I really don't like Ontario... even to visit.
? Where does thy home reside?
__________________ In Flanders fields the poppies grow - Between the crosses, row on row, - That mark our place, and in the sky, - The larks, still bravely singing, fly, - Scarce heard amid the guns below. ~John McCrae
celebrated Thanksgiving. Thought they were all a bunch of thankless bastards but I guess not.
Seriously though, what is the story behind Canadian thanksgiving? Is there some mythos, legend etc behind it or is it just a good idea adopted by the Canadians on a different day?
All my years living on the border to Canada and I never knew...
PS: True story: my 3 grade teacher got censured for calling the Canadians a bunch of 'French loving Commie bastards'. It was funny then, its funny now.
PPS: What I want is naked sushi girls covered in sushi and foie gras. I love foie gras. they have factories of it in Canada. Good stuff.
Last edited by fatfencer; 10-13-2009 at 01:28 PM..
Thanksgiving in Canada is probably more in keeping with it's origins I think than in the USA (from what I can tell). We don't do the whole pilgrim bit... nor is it a day (or two) of shopping.
It's simply a fall gathering. Families & friends get together and share a large meal of stuffed turkey and fall veggies. Smaller families use chicken or cornish game hen, or turkey roast and vegetarians often have stuffed squash or <shudder> "Tofurky" turkey meat made from tofu.
I usually invite the single folks I know, so they can enjoy some turkey & pumpkin pie. This is common in my circle of friends and family. Every Thanksgiving my husband & I get several invites to share a meal with another family. Usually we turn them down because I love cooking and often bake homemade bread. Others I know, volunteer to feed the homeless.
We're just a bunch of pagans here... we just enjoy the holiday for what it is, a seasonal celebration of fall. October makes more sense than November, as so many seasonal fall vegetables are harvested (such as pumpkins/ squash, carrots, potatoes, yams etc..) and in most places the first snow has occurred.
As for French lovin'... English is most common but Chinese, East Indian & various European languages are also widely spoken. As for being commies... not much of an insult on this side of the line... although when I hear it, I suspect jealousy of our socialized medicine.
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"But it doesn’t matter cause I’m packing plastic & that’s what makes my life so f'cking fantastic"~ Lily Allen
By the time a woman realizes that her mother was right, she already has a daughter who's convinced she's wrong.
Last edited by Fencergrl; 10-13-2009 at 05:24 PM..
although when i hear it, i suspect jealousy of our socialized medicine.
+1
__________________ In Flanders fields the poppies grow - Between the crosses, row on row, - That mark our place, and in the sky, - The larks, still bravely singing, fly, - Scarce heard amid the guns below. ~John McCrae
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