Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.

[Wolferz]

Now, if we can just get Natalie Portman to open her wormhole and send Miles Standish back to planet Plymouth the citizens of Indi will open their stuffing mines and fill our tummies.

Gobble yourselves into a stupor y'all.

[Aktungbby]

The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621. This feast lasted three days, and—as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims. The colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

Originally Posted by Wampanoag version

You’ve probably heard the story of how Squanto assisted in their planting of corn? So this was their first successful harvest and they were celebrating that harvest and planning a day of their own thanksgiving. And it’s kind of like what some of the Arab nations do when they celebrate by shooting guns in the air. So this is what was going on over there at Plymouth. They were shooting guns and canons as a celebration, which alerted us because we didn’t know who they were shooting at. So Massasoit gathered up some 90 warriors and showed up at Plymouth prepared to engage, if that was what was happening, if they were taking any of our people. They didn’t know. It was a fact-finding mission.
When they arrived it was explained through a translator that they were celebrating the harvest, so we decided to stay and make sure that was true, because we’d seen in the other landings—[Captain John] Smith, even the Vikings had been here—so we wanted to make sure so we decided to camp nearby for a few days. During those few days, the men went out to hunt and gather food—deer, ducks, geese, and fish. There are 90 men here and at the time I think there are only 23 (adult male) survivors of that boat, the Mayflower, so you can imagine the fear. You have armed Natives who are camping nearby. They [the colonists] were always vulnerable to the new land, new creatures, even the trees—there were no such trees in England at that time. People forget they had just landed here and this coastline looked very different from what it looks like now. And their culture—new foods, they were afraid to eat a lot of things. So they were very vulnerable and we did protect them, not just support them, we protected them. You can see throughout their journals that they were always nervous and, unfortunately, when they were nervous they were very aggressive. People did eat together [but not in what is portrayed as “the first Thanksgiving]. It was our homeland and our territory and we walked all through their villages all the time. The differences in how they behaved, how they ate, how they prepared things was a lot for both cultures to work with each other. But in those days, it was sort of like today when you go out on a boat in the open sea and you see another boat and everyone is waving and very friendly—it’s because they’re vulnerable and need to rely on each other if something happens. In those days, the English really needed to rely on us and, yes, they were polite as best they could be, but they regarded us as savages nonetheless.

The feast was cooked by the only four adult Pilgrim women who survived their first winter in the New World (Eleanor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins, Mary Brewster, and Susanna White), along with young daughters and male and female servants. As with all Thanksgiving feasts; not enough credit to the ladies! Can U imagine: three days of keeping the party going with 90 warrior 'savages'- ready for action- at hand! Naturally per tradition, I'll let my wife and daughter do all the cooking...only tending to the carving and, while they're sleeping off the big feed... I'll handle the massive kitchen cleanup...with leftovers, this'll go for three days too!

[Wolferz]

yuh ta hay Pilgrim!
Translation:

"Get Back On Boat"

[eddie]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[Mr Quatro]

The Mayflower Voyage
http://www.history.com/topics/pilgrims

The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church. In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists settled in the Netherlands, first in Amsterdam and later in the town of Leiden, where they remained for the next decade under the relatively lenient Dutch laws. Due to economic difficulties, as well as fears that they would lose their English language and heritage, they began to make plans to settle in the New World

They set sail from Plymouth, England, but they had in been in the Netherlands for (10) years due to the Church of England didn't like their puritan views.

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

.. I'll handle the massive kitchen cleanup...with leftovers, this'll go for three days too!

Trust me, you're not the only one doing the clean up.

[mapuc]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my Subsim friends.

Here in Denmark and in Sweden we have something called "Mortens aften" = Mortens evening. On this 11 November the goose is on the menu. I think it's the nearest we come to the American's tradition to eat Turkey

Markus

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Now, if we can just get Natalie Portman to open her wormhole

That sounds practically dirty.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Platapus

That sounds practically dirty.

Must be why she keeps saying "ummm no!"