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A message to our American readers…

· North American affairs

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November 25th, 2004 |

14 comments to A message to our American readers…

  • Verity
    November 25, 2004 at 6:00 pm

    Seconded! Happy turkey!

  • B. Durbin
    November 25, 2004 at 7:07 pm

    Does England have an equivalent holiday? I know Canada does.

    And, well, you’re welcome! And thank *you* for writing!

  • Pete_London
    November 25, 2004 at 7:30 pm

    BD

    We have no equivalent of Thanksgiving. But there was plenty of giving thanks by me in the pub after your recent election and there will be again if Blair loses the next election.

    Fill yer boots.

  • cessair
    November 25, 2004 at 7:41 pm

    As an American stuck on your island this Thanksgiving, I appreciate the sentiment.

  • Gareth Russell
    November 25, 2004 at 9:04 pm

    That took me a while to work out what was going on. 😉 Enjoy your “Thanksgiving”.

  • John
    November 25, 2004 at 9:55 pm

    Thank you, U.K.

  • Tony
    November 25, 2004 at 10:59 pm

    Yeah – happy thanksgiving people! (about an hour to go here…)

  • James
    November 26, 2004 at 12:19 am

    As my first Thanksgiving actually living here, a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving to you all.

  • Della
    November 26, 2004 at 4:47 am

    Does England have an equivalent holiday? I know Canada does.

    We do have a Thanksgiving, I think it is the same day as the Canadian Thanksgiving in October but we don’t really celibrate it.

  • Sam_S
    November 26, 2004 at 10:01 am

    Believe me, Samizdata, It’s my pleasure. I just read the article in the Independent about the cop-stop, and it sounds like you guys had better stir up as much shit as possible about this.

    Frankly, I think American cops might be even meaner, but they don’t (yet) have such lame offenses to prosecute, and they certainly don’t have non-cops who can make arrests or issue citations. Stop this before somebody gets the bright idea to copy it!

  • Pete_London
    November 26, 2004 at 1:07 pm

    Della

    My reason for saying that we don’t have an equivalent of the US’ Thanksgiving is that it exists because of the Pilgrims’ survival. If we have an equivalent let me know. I’m always willing to raise my glass in shared celebration with the USA in front of my liberal friends. A cheap pleasure, but still a pleasure.

  • Verity
    November 26, 2004 at 4:46 pm

    Ha ha, Pete! Yes, confounding liberals is a true sport, with as much pleasure being afforded the spectators as to the players.

    On N American Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims survived their first few years in a country in which they couldn’t identify any of the the crops and didn’t know how to grow them, thanks to the help of the Native Americans, who shared their harvest with them and showed them how to grow things. In Europe, we are the natives.

    I think it is the American holiday least sullied by commercialism. No one is expected to buy anyone a Thanksgiving gift, and there is such a sense of warmth and sharing the wealth at Thanksgiving dinners. I don’t eat turkey and I think pumpkin pie is another name for ’emetic’ but I love Thanksgiving dinners all the same.

  • diablo blanco
    November 26, 2004 at 5:43 pm

    Thank you Samizdata. I have no like-minded friends here in Athens, Georgia, though the friends I do have I am grateful for, leftists though they may be. (My county was a dot of blue in a sea of red after this last election, to the chagrine of my neighbors, ha!) Of all the libertarian websites I go to, this one is by far my favorite. When I have occasion to discuss something my libertarian “friends” have said, it is to all of you that I refer. Cheers!

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