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Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving!

Started by iago, October 12, 2008, 11:10:06 AM

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dark_drake

#15
October 13, 2008, 02:34:00 PM
Quote from: iago on October 13, 2008, 01:48:31 PM
Anyways, it may be a joke, but it's a joke at the expense of my country for something that isn't even true. I can't just let that slide! :P
Take off, eh?
errr... something like that...

Armin

#16
October 13, 2008, 02:53:41 PM
The worst part is the guy in the comic isn't even Canadian. Everyone knows a Canadian's mouth is a horizontal line spanning the width of their face, and their eyes are large, oval shaped, black pupils.
Hitmen: art is gay

iago

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October 13, 2008, 03:24:17 PM
Quote from: Metal Militia on October 13, 2008, 02:53:41 PM
The worst part is the guy in the comic isn't even Canadian. Everyone knows a Canadian's mouth is a horizontal line spanning the width of their face, and their eyes are large, oval shaped, black pupils.
Good point!

Blaze

#18
October 13, 2008, 04:09:42 PM
Quote from: Metal Militia on October 13, 2008, 02:53:41 PM
The worst part is the guy in the comic isn't even Canadian. Everyone knows a Canadian's mouth is a horizontal line spanning the width of their face, and their eyes are large, oval shaped, black pupils.

Whadda you mean, buddah?
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...

Armin

#19
October 13, 2008, 07:18:18 PM Last Edit: October 13, 2008, 07:23:54 PM by Metal Militia


Don't pretend you don't look like that!
Hitmen: art is gay

Sidoh

#20
October 13, 2008, 07:27:00 PM
Quote from: Blaze on October 13, 2008, 04:09:42 PM
Quote from: Metal Militia on October 13, 2008, 02:53:41 PM
The worst part is the guy in the comic isn't even Canadian. Everyone knows a Canadian's mouth is a horizontal line spanning the width of their face, and their eyes are large, oval shaped, black pupils.

Whadda you mean, buddah?

I'm not your buddah, friend!

Blaze

#21
October 13, 2008, 07:31:51 PM
I'm not your friend, guy.
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...

Sidoh

#22
October 13, 2008, 08:03:42 PM
Quote from: Blaze on October 13, 2008, 07:31:51 PM
I'm not your friend, guy.

Wtf? :'(

rabbit

#23
October 14, 2008, 09:42:06 AM
Quote from: Blaze on October 13, 2008, 07:31:51 PM
I'm not your friend, guy.
He's not your guy, buddah!

Lead

#24
October 14, 2008, 09:50:12 AM
What's this thread all aboot?


QuoteSon, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson

Camel

#25
October 14, 2008, 05:49:38 PM
Quote from: Lead on October 14, 2008, 09:50:12 AM
What's this thread all aboot?

The World Canadian Bureau - the WGA.

<Camel> i said what what
<Blaze> in the butt
<Camel> you want to do it in my butt?
<Blaze> in my butt
<Camel> let's do it in the butt
<Blaze> Okay!

Kaleeko

#26
October 14, 2008, 06:01:50 PM
Quote from: iago on October 13, 2008, 12:13:47 PM
Yeah, that comic doesn't make sense.

QuoteThe history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey.

QuoteThe first recorded Thanksgiving ceremony was on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida. Six hundred Spaniard settlers under the leadership of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed at what would become the city and immediately held a Mass of Thanksgiving for their safe delivery to the New World, followed by a feast and celebration.

They were initially created by different people for different reasons. :P

<edit> -- and incidentally, it was celebrated long before our countries even existed! :P

Plus, ours is a simple holiday to eat food and celebrate, not a insanely commercialized shopping day!



Belatedly, I realized this when we went shopping last week. All Halloween stuff everywhere, no turkeys or pilgrim stuff or anything! I have to say, I'm pretty happy about having two Thanksgiving dinners. Turkey, mmmm. :D
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