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- From: STEVEN.SULLIVAN@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Steven M Sullivan")
- Subject: What Thanksgiving Is
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:40:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <199211231740.AA00156@tuna.wang.com>
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- I was corresponding with a collegue of mine in Europe via e-mail explaining
- why we have this Thursday and Friday off. This is what came out:
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- BTW, we Americans like to celebrate the raping and pillaging of thousands of
- native american indians that took place a few centries ago when a bunch of
- fanatical Englishmen decided that they were being repressed and took it amongst
- themselves to venture off to the new world to start their own little cult.
- They slowly figured out that this new world had a thing to it that they had
- very little experience in dealing with, something called Winter. So they
- conned all the of local tribes into feeding them at this huge day long orgy,
- and then proceeded to take all of their food so that the natives had precious
- little for themselves for that first hard winter and the poor shivering
- pilgrims had plenty. Soon after that, these repressed religious fanatics, in
- turn, learned how to repress the native american indians and hence, the United
- States was born.
-
- We refer to this holiday as Thanksgiving.
-
- It is tradition to gather together all of your relatives within reasonable
- driving distance; sit around all day and talk to these people that you have
- absolutely nothing in common with; down a lot of spirits to at least make it
- bearable; roast a huge turkey for about two days, stuffed with bread, sausages,
- salt and butter, and anything else that you can fit into the cavity; mash
- together white potatoes and butter; bake yams (sweet potato) with brown sugar
- and butter; eat cranberry sauce, both pureed and chunky, although, no one
- admits to even liking the chunky, but they eat it anyway, just to be polite
- and not offend the host who made it because everyone ate it last year; eat
- green beans that have been boiled to death; eat over cooked mushy corn
- covered with butter and salt; eat a vegtable that when prepared looks like
- it's name, squash; cover everything with turkey fat laden lumpy gravey; down
- everything with a few gallons of spiced apple cider; have a piece of
- pumpkin pie and apple pie and squash pie and mince meat pie, piled high with
- ice cream and whipped cream, of course; (all this devoured in about an hour,
- after about two weeks of preparation!) and then roll yourself in front of the
- nearest (american) football game to watch the traditional lackluster event
- between the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys which during, you promptly
- fall asleep in front of the TV. What a country!
-
- Ok, ok, before *anyone* gets offended, rest assured that my tounge was firmly
- impacted within my cheek. ;->
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- Principal Systems Programmer No Computer Stands In My Way!
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