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Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

21 hours ago

Only been here five -point- five, but it's already far outlasted my tenure at other venues.

For non-Americans: Thanksgiving is a big national holiday in the US; celebrated on the last Thursday of November.

Its origin story is that a bunch of recent immigrants were having a rough time of it, and were helped by aboriginal Americans.

What happened after ... well, that's another story.

It's a big "family" holiday. Americans travel all over, to gather with their families at the Gorging Table.

what happened after the pilgrims were helped by those nice people?

  • I won't get into it, but it's not difficult to figure out.

    > "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

    - Mark Twain