Post #19,409
11/26/01 12:09:06 PM
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Turkey? What turkey?
After all, everybody knows that Thanksgiving is in October.
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Post #19,425
11/26/01 3:14:07 PM
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And during Warpstock at that
If I hadn't been up there for it, I'd never have known that Canada had Thanksgiving, let alone that it was in October.
Guess it makes sense to have it early, gets colder sooner up there, thus an earlier harvest :-)
Got my aunt over the holidays - we were calling my parents(currently residing in Mexico) and talking about how my dad did not have the day off because it wasn't Thanksgiving. She said "that's right, they don't have a 4th of July either", to which I replied "Sure they do". She looked rather puzzled until I followed up with "it's right after the 3rd of July".
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #19,482
11/26/01 11:10:51 PM
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That's what you get for not giving it a proper name.
Or at least persistently referring to it by its calender date instead of the name it does have. :-)
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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Post #19,507
11/27/01 9:59:44 AM
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I've always heard it both ways
4th of July and Independence Day are pretty much synonymous to me, though I suspect the date is used more frequently.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #19,628
11/28/01 10:43:01 AM
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Re: I've always heard it both ways
4th of July and Independence Day are pretty much synonymous to me, though I suspect the date is used more frequently. What? You mean that March 2nd isn't your REAL "Independence Day?" And you call yourself a Texan.
-YendorMike
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
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Post #19,630
11/28/01 10:55:53 AM
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I'm not a Native Texan
though I got here as soon as I could :-)
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #19,654
11/28/01 2:04:44 PM
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Yeah yeah yeah...
I've heard it all before. That's just a lame cover-up excuse for "my parents weren't smart enough to move to Texas before I was born." ;-)
BTW- Hook 'em Horns!
-YendorMike
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
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Post #19,656
11/28/01 3:56:38 PM
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Hey, my dad moved OUT of Texas when he was two...
...does that count for something? :P
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post #19,669
11/28/01 5:32:18 PM
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Sounds like he didn't have a choice
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #19,674
11/28/01 5:49:50 PM
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Hey.. he chose smart parents, didn't he?_____________:-\ufffd
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