Thanksgiving Revisited

[yubetcha]

I posted this last year. This one, with a small addition, is for all of you who weren't here to see it...

And BTW, Canadians... just kidding LOL!

1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers America, unless you count the native peoples already living there. Columbus doesn't. Columbus and crew celebrate by holding a dinner, giving thanks for their safe arrival. Embarrassment ensues when every Indian brings maize, and nobody brings pumpkin pie.

1620 - Pilgrim men invent sport of football to avoid helping clean up after Thanksgiving dinner.

1671 - First embarrassing drunken relatives at Thanksgiving dinner, as Captain John Smith's parents tell Pocahontas the "hilarious" old "I got lost in the maize" joke for the hundredth time.

1701 - At a historic Thanksgiving dinner, Dutch settlers unveil historic "Indians Give Us All Of Their Land Treaty." Due to an unfortunate oversight, the Indians are left off of the invite list, and the treaty is signed without them.

1776 - Excited that his British in-laws finally agreed to meet him for Thanksgiving dinner, silversmith Paul Revere rides through Boston announcing the news. Unfortunately, many colonists misinterpret his cry "the British are coming!" as a warning. People become frightened and men grab their muskets, leading to the Revolutionary War.

1812 - At an international Thanksgiving dinner, King George of England, still hurting from losing the Revolutionary War, challenges United States President James Madison to "best 2 out of 3." So the War of 1812 was born.

1860 - At a Senate Thanksgiving dinner, the seven-year-old son of Alabama's Senator Richard Applebee insults the Senators from Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania, by calling them sloppy eaters, sparking the Civil War. The tradition of the "children's table" is instituted in 1861.

1903 - Canada steals idea of Thanksgiving holiday, placing it in October, so they can say it was their idea first.

1928 - To commemorate "our nation's greatest era of prosperity that will last forever and ever," President Herbert Hoover dumps ceremonial ten thousand turkeys into the Potomac River.

1929 - Following the Great Stock Market Crash, which was sparked partially by the absense of the turkey market, thousands of men go turkey diving in the Potomac River. The next October, bobbing for apples was started, because it was easier.

1957 - Declaring her spicy stuffing "a communist threat to undermine my health via heartburn," Senator Joe McCarthy has his wife placed under arrest as a Soviet saboteur. The hunt for Communists grew as a result.

1969 - The world's largest Eat-In event goes sour. Thousands of hippies start having bad trips when bad "brown gravy" gets passed around. Someone then started the act of taking drugs, because it wasn't so messy.

1991 - When Dan Quayle takes ill on Thanksgiving, a turkey is sworn as Vice President for three days. No change is noticed.

1997 - Strong natural tranquilizer tryptophane is discovered in turkey. A Colombian cartel immediately starts selling "pure" turkey on the streets for $500 an ounce. Turkey farmers get involved in drive-by shootings, and the U.S. government declares a national fowl emergency.

2001-2004 - America is on a terrorist alert. The Patriot Act is signed into law. Email is searched. It is now against the law to stuff a turkey since anyone is suspicious of hiding explosives. George W. signs this into law, and during a patriotic speech he defends this decision claiming "the evildoers are just looking for any opportunity to show up at your dinner table." Saddam Hussein sends the weapons inspectors out to find a turkey for dinner. Bush misinterprets this, and invades Iraq. He later says, "Bring it on". This Thanksgiving, take a real good look at your relatives...and report any suspicious behavior to the CIA, FBI or your local police...who cares if it's grandma.... it's your duty as an American... she may be hiding a rocket launcher under her blanket while in her wheelchair.

[Lazarus]

so what are you saying? that we are destined to destroy ourselves? what else is new. tell us something good about Thanksgiving for once. this historical polictical propoganda you posted useless. where's the friggen joyful holiday cheer.

[yubetcha]

Do you really think I am saying that? Was that post tongue-in-cheek or are you saying that you took this seriously? Don't you know a joke when you see one? Takes all kinds, I guess. Next, I suppose that you will be telling me that these things really happened.