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Happy Thanksgiving to all
« on: November 22, 2017, 10:24:51 PM »
I know some, but not all countries have versions of Thanksgiving.  Those that do celebrate it on a different day than us in the U.S.  But I am sure we all have things we can pause and be thankful for.  Apropos to this forum, I am thankful to be in a position to provide this place where a group of strangers have been able to get together for over a decade and discuss a variety of ideas, sometimes with heated disagreement, and still for the most part find common ground and get along.  Thanks for this long ride together.

I will just leave you with Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation, which made the third Thursday of November an official holiday:

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Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

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 has 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 one 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, tranquillity 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.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2017, 10:35:40 PM »
Happy Thanksgiving America!
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2017, 12:43:11 AM »
I have left cookies out for jolly Saint Gobble. When he waddles down my chimney, I hope to find drumsticks and BBQ wings and no turkey droppings. I have been good this year.

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2017, 03:12:25 AM »
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

This may sound silly but I've been logging on almost every day here for years and I legitimately look forward to reading all the new posts (maybe not DT side) here. I've gotten to know some people here and I've also discovered some truly kick ass music from here, so for all of that I'm thankful.

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2017, 03:38:26 AM »
Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone who celebrates it ;)In Poland we don't have such a Holiday, to be precise in November we have only Independence Day and it's 11th of November ;)

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2017, 03:51:12 AM »
Happy Thanksgiving DTF!

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2017, 07:10:59 AM »
Abe Lincoln FTW!! :metal

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2017, 08:12:16 AM »
Happy turkey to all, and to all some good pie!

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2017, 08:39:45 AM »
Have a good one DTF brethren. I consider many of you friends despite having never met you in person. This is truly a great online community to be a part of.
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2017, 08:46:03 AM »
Same to all on DTF! We have everything either cooking or prepped. 
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2017, 09:28:05 AM »
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I'm not one to really 'celebrate' holidays so it's more like just another day off to me, but I'm grateful to have a place where I can converse with so many people with similar interests. Where I live, it's kind of hard to do that. Have a great holiday, everybody.
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2017, 09:42:59 AM »
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I'm not one to really 'celebrate' holidays so it's more like just another day off to me, but I'm grateful to have a place where I can converse with so many people with similar interests. Where I live, it's kind of hard to do that. Have a great holiday, everybody.

There, you just did. :)
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2017, 09:43:14 AM »
40 turkeys, 200 lbs of potatoes, 30 gallons of gravy, 100lbs of crab, 1500 oysters,  20 pans of stuffing, 89 pies, and more desserts than you can imagine.


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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2017, 10:00:26 AM »
40 turkeys, 200 lbs of potatoes, 30 gallons of gravy, 100lbs of crab, 1500 oysters,  20 pans of stuffing, 89 pies, and more desserts than you can imagine.

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2017, 10:23:39 AM »
Happy Thanksgiving DTF!

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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2017, 10:25:19 AM »
I don't think so. Didn't Cooperstown close in Phoenix?
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2017, 10:29:30 AM »
40 turkeys, 200 lbs of potatoes, 30 gallons of gravy, 100lbs of crab, 1500 oysters,  20 pans of stuffing, 89 pies, and more desserts than you can imagine.

Didn't realize Kingshmegland invited you over.

I don't eat Turkey.  I do cook a mean one though.
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving to all
« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2017, 10:53:07 AM »
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol