On Thu 27 Nov 2008 09:10:27p, Gloria P told us...

> Sqwertz wrote:
>> Dave Smith > wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah....Thanksgiving is a great time for families to gather and have a
>>> great feast together. I would disagree about it being a tradition that
>>> no one can recall. While the North American culture has changed a lot
>>> over the last half century thanks to widened immigration, when I was a
>>> kid it was a celebration of the harvest, and many Canadians like myself
>>> have English and American (Loyalist) roots and trace it back to the
>>> Massachusetts colony, which incidentally, included my wife's ancestors,
>>> as well as Barak Obama's.
>>
>> Exact that Thangiving was born in Texas, not in Massachusetts.
>>
>> -sw (from Framingham, MA)
>
>
> HUH? Have you never been to Plymoutn Rock? Plimoth Plantation?
> Thanksgiving was being celebrated there while Texas was nothing but
> armadillos.
>
> gloria p
> (from Fairhaven, MA)
>

Steve is either an idiot or an ass, or maybe an idiotic ass. He’s getting as
bad as Sheldon with his inaccuracies.

Wasn’t Texas actually part of Mexico at the time of the first Thanksgiving?

--
Wayne Boatwright
(correct the spelling of "geemail" to reply)
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Date: Thursday, 11(XI)/27(XXVII)/08(MMVIII)
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