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LiL_DollY

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YAh Guys Have TUrkEY???
Posted 27 Nov 2006

smooth daddy?
Posted 28 Nov 2006

with stuffing, gravy, potatos ...

did yah?
Posted 28 Nov 2006

u said u dont celebrate thanksgiving sd bro
Posted 28 Nov 2006

LiL_DollY says
Smooth_daddy said:

with stuffing, gravy, potatos ...

did yah?



yup we had a huge turkey
but only ate one side

and mashed potatoes
gravy

MMm

N

Pumpkin pie
Posted 28 Nov 2006

shahrukh khan said:

u said u dont celebrate thanksgiving sd bro



she asked if I had turkey and I gave her details of it.
Posted 28 Nov 2006

veer_zaara says
i dont bealive in these days
Posted 28 Nov 2006

... there's no reason for you to believe in it.

dolly's asking about the vacation time we had (4-day holiday in US). Wehter you believe in it or not, you get those days off. Now, its up to you to enjoy that time off. I certainly did and that's what we are braging about
Posted 28 Nov 2006

just in america....how was turkey
Posted 28 Nov 2006

LiL_DollY says
yeah...

1st it was boring

but had a blast

in some sense

hey bro...yo quiero tu numero de telefono

necessita hablar con tu
Posted 30 Nov 2006

Posted 30 Nov 2006

veer_zaara says
Smooth_daddy said:

... there's no reason for you to believe in it.

dolly's asking about the vacation time we had (4-day holiday in US). Wehter you believe in it or not, you get those days off. Now, its up to you to enjoy that time off. I certainly did and that's what we are braging about



take a chill pill bro
i just said my opinion
ok if u mind it then i m sorry
i say sorry bro
Posted 30 Nov 2006

he didnt mind he just explained
Posted 30 Nov 2006

veer_zaara says
ok
Posted 30 Nov 2006

LiL_DollY says
ok
Posted 30 Nov 2006

veer_zaara said:

Smooth_daddy said:

... there's no reason for you to believe in it.

dolly's asking about the vacation time we had (4-day holiday in US). Wehter you believe in it or not, you get those days off. Now, its up to you to enjoy that time off. I certainly did and that's what we are braging about



take a chill pill bro
i just said my opinion
ok if u mind it then i m sorry
i say sorry bro


I'm cool sis - don't be sorry for nothin

are you ready for holidays

just kiddin, I look forward to some free time at the end of the year - opportunity to reflect and plan ahead.
Posted 30 Nov 2006

LiL_DollY says
Smooth_daddy said:

veer_zaara said:

Smooth_daddy said:


... there's no reason for you to believe in it.

dolly's asking about the vacation time we had (4-day holiday in US).
Wehter you believe in it or not, you get those days off. Now, its up to you
to enjoy that time off. I certainly did and that's what we are braging about



take a chill pill bro
i just said my opinion
ok if u mind it then i m sorry
i say sorry bro


I'm cool sis - don't be sorry for nothin

are you ready for holidays

just kiddin, I look forward to some free time at the end of the year -
opportunity to reflect and plan ahead.


oh I thought this was for me

*oopz
Posted 30 Nov 2006

fo you gal ummmmmmm!!











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Posted 30 Nov 2006

Ashii says
is this day have a link with scotish (or irish) potatoes thing
Posted 30 Nov 2006

veer_zaara says
in this day i just went to visit mynew city(my new city)

lol
well the city i have moved

Florida

and then did nothing
Posted 30 Nov 2006

LiL_DollY says
Smooth_daddy said:

fo you gal ummmmmmm!!











is this







































Bro

(smiling)

r u coming outta ur shell
Posted 30 Nov 2006

We don't have them here...
Thats for America..
Posted 04 Dec 2006

LOL

that was to cheer yah up dolly

shell!!!!
Posted 04 Dec 2006

why they celebrate thanksgiving?
Posted 04 Dec 2006

From Wikipedia: Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to God, for the things one has at the close of the harvest season. In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, and in Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday in October. In the United Kingdom, Thanksgiving is another name for the Harvest festival, held in churches across the country on a relevant Sunday to mark the end of the local harvest, though it is not thought of as a major event (compared to Christmas or Easter) as it is in North America, where this tradition taken by early settlers became much more important. Other European countries, such as Germany, also have harvest-thanks (Erntedank) celebrations which are perceived to be rather minor and mostly rural holidays.
Posted 05 Dec 2006

History of Thanksgiving in North America

Thanksgiving in the United States
The first official Thanksgiving was held in the Virginia Colony on December 4, 1619 near the current site of Berkeley Plantation, where celebrations are still held each year in November.[3]


Pilgrims
The Pilgrims were particularly thankful to Squanto, the Native American who taught them how to catch eel, grow corn and who served as an interpreter for them (Squanto had learned English as a slave in Europe). Without Squanto's help the Pilgrims might not have survived in the new world. The explorers who later came to be called the "Pilgrims" set apart a day to celebrate at Plymouth immediately after their first harvest, in 1621. At the time, this was not regarded as a Thanksgiving observance; harvest festivals were existing parts of English and Wampanoag tradition alike. Several American colonists have personal accounts of the 1621 feast in Massachusetts:

William Bradford, in Of Plymouth Plantation:

    They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their house and dwelling against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion. All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides, they had about a peck of meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, which were not feigned by true reports.     

Edward Winslow, in Mourt's Relation:

    Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our labor. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which we brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.     

The mention of ninety men in the Winslow account is of interest, as the Native People present would have outnumbered the 50 surviving English at that point. The two preceding passages are the only records of the event, but historians presume that both groups were exposed to unfamiliar forms of celebration.

The Pilgrims did not hold a true Thanksgiving until 1623, when it followed a drought, prayers for rain, and a subsequent rain shower. Irregular Thanksgivings continued after favorable events and days of fasting after unfavorable ones. In the Plymouth tradition, a thanksgiving day was a church observance, rather than a feast day.

Gradually, an annual Thanksgiving after the harvest developed in the mid-17th century. This did not occur on any set day or necessarily on the same day in different colonies in America.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony (consisting mainly of Puritan Christians) celebrated Thanksgiving for the first time in 1630, and frequently thereafter until about 1680, when it became an annual festival in that colony; and Connecticut as early as 1639 and annually after 1647, except in 1675. The Dutch in New Netherland appointed a day for giving thanks in 1644 and occasionally thereafter.


The Revolutionary War to nationhood
During the American Revolutionary War the Continental Congress appointed one or more thanksgiving days each year, except in 1777, each time recommending to the executives of the various states the observance of these days in their states.

George Washington, leader of the revolutionary forces in the American Revolutionary War, proclaimed a Thanksgiving in December 1777 as a victory celebration honoring the defeat of the British at Saratoga. The Continental Congress proclaimed annual December Thanksgivings from 1777 to 1783, except in 1782.

George Washington again proclaimed Thanksgivings, as President, in 1789 and 1795.

The proclamation by President Washington in 1789, was a recommendation of a resolution established by both Houses of Congress establishing the first national Thanksgiving Day on November 26, 1789. The reason for establishing Thanksgiving was "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be--That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted--for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us." (signed) G. Washington, The Massachusetts Sentinel, Wednesday, October 14, 1789

President John Adams declared Thanksgivings in 1798 and 1799. President Madison, in response to resolutions of Congress, set apart a day for thanksgiving at the close of the War of 1812. Madison declared the holiday twice in 1815; however, none of these were celebrated in autumn.

A thanksgiving day was annually appointed by the governor of New York from 1817. In some of the Southern states there was opposition to the observance of such a day on the ground that it was a relic of Puritanic bigotry, but by 1858 proclamations appointing a day of thanksgiving were issued by the governors of 25 states and two territories.


Lincoln and the Civil War
In the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863:

    The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth."

Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, 3 October 1863.
     

Since 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States.


1939 to present
Main article: Franksgiving
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be the next-to-last Thursday of November rather than the last. With the country still in the midst of The Great Depression, Roosevelt thought this would give merchants a longer period to sell goods before Christmas. Increasing profits and spending during this period, Roosevelt hoped, would aid bringing the country out of the Depression. At the time, it was considered inappropriate to advertise goods for Christmas until after Thanksgiving. However, Roosevelt's declaration was not mandatory; twenty-three states went along with this recommendation, and 22 did not. Other states, like Texas, could not decide and took both weeks as government holidays. Roosevelt persisted in 1940 to celebrate his "Franksgiving," as it was termed. The U.S. Congress in 1941 split the difference and established that the Thanksgiving would occur annually on the fourth Thursday of November, which was sometimes the last Thursday and sometimes the next to last. On November 26 that year President Roosevelt signed this bill into U.S. law.


President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House.Since 1947, or possibly earlier, the National Turkey Federation has presented the President of the United States with one live turkey and two dressed turkeys. The live turkey is pardoned and lives out the rest of its days on a peaceful farm. While it is commonly held that this tradition began with Harry Truman in 1947, the Truman Library has been unable to find any evidence for this. Still others claim that the tradition dates back to Abraham Lincoln pardoning his son's pet turkey.[4] Both stories have been quoted in more recent presidential speeches.


President George W. Bush pardons “Flyer” the turkey during the 2006 ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. [1]In more recent years, two turkeys have been pardoned, in case the original turkey becomes unavailable for presidential pardoning. Since 2003 the public has been invited to vote for the two turkeys' names. They were named Stars and Stripes in 2003 and 2004's turkeys were called Biscuit and Gravy. In 2005 the public decided on Marshmallow and Yam and in 2006 they were named Flyer and Fryer.[2]

Since 2005 the two turkeys have been flown first class on United Airlines from Washington, D.C. to the Los Angeles area where they become the Grand Marshals of Disneyland's annual Thanksgiving Day parade down Main Street. The two turkeys then live out the rest of their relatively short lives in Disneyland's Frontierland ranch.[5]

Since 1970, a group of Native Americans and others have held a National Day of Mourning protest on Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Posted 05 Dec 2006

LiL_DollY says
MysteriousRomeo said:

We don't have them here...
Thats for America..



CUZ...

yah didnt eat turkey

turkeys the bomb
Posted 05 Dec 2006

LiL_DollY says
Smooth_daddy said:

LOL

that was to cheer yah up dolly

shell!!!!



Bro

You always do!
Posted 05 Dec 2006

LiL_DollY says
wheres my bro @t?
Posted 10 Dec 2006

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