One could go on.

I disagree.

How did you sleep on this bed for 15 years? Maybe it's best to just eat some of those marshmallow yams and try not think about it. I hope you've been keeping up on The winter family holidays are too fun to disrupt by bringing up irritating parental queries — there are too many ugly sweaters to try on and TV specials to watch!

We cant forget what happened to these people because history has a way of repeating itself. To respond to all the assorted internet nonsense about Thanksgiving it is necessary to go on and on. While RewardExpert found the Sunday after the holiday to be a bad day for a return flight, Monday the 27th and Tuesday the 28th are even worse. Thus, only 53 Pilgrims were alive to enjoy the harvest feast that Americans celebrate today with beer, football, and turkey. Mr. Bangs' comments from way back in '05 (which I just stumbled upon this Thanksgiving Day 2010) seem well presented and well said. Well, they were generous and they did provide food, but it was not reciprocated," Trosper said.

Not really.

Due to their exceedingly bad planning, 45 out of 102 Pilgrims died from starvation and sickness during the building of Plymouth. Last year, Monday was the worst day. (Ever been to a midwestern church picnic? The October 3 festivities commemorated the lifting of the Siege of Leiden in 1574, when half the town had died (an obvious parallel with the experience of the Pilgrims in the winter of 1620-21).

But hey, at least you get to eat a frickin' turkey, right?Since everyone needs somewhere to go on Thanksgiving, your dinner table ends up being 80 percent immediate family members ... and 20 percent cousins you haven't seen since childhood and aunts/uncles that, frankly, you weren't sure were still alive.

I believe William Newell's accounting to be the most true and accurate accounting of the facts. Raise your voice and say, "I can't believe I get one day off, and I have to spend it sitting at the kid's table even though I'm 24!"

!It's not just a myth — Thanksgiving is one of the But you're not! Thanksgiving was the beginning of a long friendship between the Pilgrims and the Indians. Millions of Africans killed. Local boosters in Virginia, Florida, and Texas promote their own colonists, who (like many people getting off a boat) gave thanks for setting foot again on dry land.

Several Many sites point out that only Edward Winslow’s brief account records Plymouth Colony’s 1621 harvest festivities, beyond which we have just William Bradford’s seasonal comment that the Pilgrims ate turkey among other things.
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But should historians bother? The Monday and Tuesday after Thanksgiving are the worst days to travel back home. Enjoy your "adulthood," sucker!Admit it: you don't even like turkey!

This lumpy-ass micro-bed is probably why you have insomnia, and a weird back problem, and didn't get into your first choice college. Oh, wait, you also had to ask your parents for permission to go to this bar. Millions of native American killed.

(4) That the Pilgrims “would never have tolerated festivities at a true religious event” presumes a narrow definition of what a true religious event was before arriving through circular argument at a denial that what the Pilgrims did was such an event, because it differed from the axiomatic definition. FALSE. But even the people who were guily of those crimes do not have a holiday to relish what they did year after year. Oh, wait, the only bar that's open is full of everyone you haven't seen since high school. Had you done a little more research you would have discovered professor Newell was in fact well learned, and a faculty member at at several prestigious schools including U of Florida, U of Maine, U Penn, and U of Tampa. I believe it is useful to review the documentary sources from that time. The biblical injunction to include the "stranger" probably accounts for the Pilgrims' inviting their Native neighbors to rejoice with them. The precedent for a harvest festival was the Feast of Tabernacles, Sukkoth (Deut.

And if you need any more ammo, here are 19 reasons why Thanksgiving is the worst holiday around. 1. And if you need any more ammo, here are 19 reasons why Thanksgiving is the worst holiday around.Probably because during the summer, on the actual worst travel days of the year, you're traveling to do something cool and interesting, and you don't mind the delays that much in the grand scheme of things. Peraps before you try to discredit someone you shoud do a little more research.I agree with Dr. Bangs that there is a great assortment of nonsensical interpretations regarding the Pilgrim thanksgiving celebration of 1621. Not quite the ideal fuel to keep your head up when you're on a hour-long security line.THIS BED IS SO LUMPY AND SMALL! 16: 13-14), lasting seven days.

Leiden’s ten-day festivity began with a religious service of thanksgiving and prayer, followed by meals, military exercises, games, and a free fair. As Winslow said, “ because we deemed them graves, we put in the bow again and made it up as it was, and left the rest untouched, because we thought it would be odious unto them to ransack their sepulchres.” There’s more to the story.

Thanksgiving is about giving thanks and being graceful for what you have and spending time with your family.

A little bit of gravy with your turkey probably isn’t such a bad thing, but with gravy it’s all about the portion control. Surveying more than two hundred websites that “correct” our assumptions about Thanksgiving, it’s possible to sort them into groups and themes, especially since Internet sites often parrot each other. Oh wait, you've only been here for ten minutes and already remember exactly why you haven't seen them since high school. Stay strong — soon you'll be back in your freezing cold apartment, spending all your money on holiday gifts and waiting out the next five months until it gets warm again ... you know what?

And even if the Hey, I have a great idea for a color scheme!

So what is there to do, except meet up with your hometown friends whom you never see any more? (Indeed, portion control is huge in avoiding holiday weight gain .)