The latest story behind American thanksgiving I heard was a governor invented it to celebrate how his troops killed a whole injun tribe without anyone getting hurt. It's uncertain if the fourth Thursday of November date has any connection to history, though.
Anyways, you foreigners have the oddest holidays. Thanksgiving is so close to xmas, and they're both celebrated mainly by eating buttloads of food with one's closest relatives. Seems kinda uninspired. Also who put all the midwinter celebrations (including new year's) basically at the beginning of the winter leaving 3-5 months of cold, unforgiving winter without any festive interruptions? I think we need to switch these things up.
I move we put Thanksgiving at the end of February. Also we can make it international.
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