Thanks Giving
 

Can somebody please explain to me what Thanks Giving is.

I would really like to know as although I know the name of this holiday you have in the USA I dont know the reasons behind it.

Cheers

Paul

It's you blimely blokes who started it.

It's Thanks Taking. :2 cents:

why whats it about ????

:1orglaugh

It's just a holiday where friends and families get together to eat Turkey and watch football.

Then the next day is the biggest shopping day of the year. the damn mall opens up 6 in the morning and closes at midnight. it's fucking crazy

its a holiday celebrating an important history lesson

keep your friends close and your enemies closer

get them fat then conquer them

wow thats nuts, who are the 49ers playing :-)

First off, it's ThanksGiving. One word.

You get to stick your stuffing into a fat turkey :thumbsup

Thanksgiving Day, national holiday in the United States commemorating the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621, after a winter of great starvation and privation. In that year Gov. William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving, and the feast was shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native Americans. Although similar observances were held locally, they were sporadic and at no set time. After the American Revolution the first national Thanksgiving Day, proclaimed by George Washington, was Nov. 26, 1789. Abraham Lincoln, urged by Sarah J. Hale, revived the custom in 1863, appointing as the date the last Thursday of November. In 1939, 1940, and 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Thanksgiving the third Thursday in November. When a contradiction arose between Roosevelt's proclamation and some of those of state governors, Congress passed a joint resolution in 1941 decreeing that Thanksgiving should fall on the fourth Thursday of November. The day is observed by church services and family reunions; the customary turkey dinner is a reminder of the four wild turkeys served at the Pilgrims' first thanksgiving feast.

Thanks for the link