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**TimSchroeder** · 11-22-2006, 11:08 AM

I want to wish a Happy Thanksgiving holiday to those who celebrate it.

Thank You for participating on our forums. I really do appreciate it.

Also good luck with your Black Friday shopping and safe travels.

I'll end with some Thankgiving quotes

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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell

So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher

Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
~Alexander Pope

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck

For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet

Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher

Some hae meat and canna eat, -
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
~Robert Burns

Forever on Thanksgiving Day
The heart will find the pathway home.
~Wilbur D. Nesbit

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Jackie Windspear

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;
Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
~Margaret Junkin Preston

**KML9870** · 11-22-2006, 04:05 PM

Happy Thanksgiving everyone - may you have much to be thankful for!

**seouser** · 11-22-2006, 04:10 PM

Thank you... you all also!!!

**ADAM Web Design** · 11-23-2006, 02:13 AM

What do us Canadians who already did our holiday shopping and had our Thanksgiving in October get for best wishes?

**TimSchroeder** · 11-23-2006, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

What do us Canadians who already did our holiday shopping and had our Thanksgiving in October get for best wishes?

Then Happy Belated Thanksgiving to you.

For the shoppers in Canada there could still be some real good Black Firday web-only deals tomorrow.

**Jaryth000** · 09:38 AM

*slightly confused*
Black Firday? And that isssss?

Im another Canadain... not sure if I sould have heard of this Black Firday... but it sounds intresting... Im going to go look it up.

~Edit~

Well I looked it up. An intesting idea, but not so much a holliday I guess. Hmm, learn something new every day!

**vangogh** · 11-23-2006, 11:23 AM

Happy Thansgiviing everyone.

Jaryth, Black Friday is the name given to the day following Thanksgiving since it's when all the stores here in the U.S. really get the holiday shopping season started. It's considered the busiest shopping day of the year, though I'm not sure if it really is any more.

In years past Black Friday was the first day you really started seeing stores get started on the holiday push, but it seems to start much sooner now. I've been seeing and hearing holiday commercials and songs since Halloween.

It's still a pretty big shopping day and there are many stores who will do special sales tomorrow.

**ADAM Web Design** · 11-23-2006, 12:57 PM

But I already did my shopping! (Except for one person and I can't buy their gift until mid-December for warranty reasons.)

Anyway...happy US Thanksgiving to the Americans on here and GO COWBOYS AT 5 PM EST!

**ultra** · 11-23-2006, 01:50 PM

whats thanks giving ???? dont have any clue .... a festival of west i think .... anyways .... thank you all

**Talk2Me** · 11-23-2006, 05:09 PM

Happy Thanksgiving, people!

**KML9870** · 11-23-2006, 08:57 PM

For everyone outside the US - Thanksgiving is a holiday that was originally started by the pilgrims that first landed in America and the Native Americans who already lived here. It was started as a meal of friendship and giving thanks for a bountiful harvest.

It's supposed to be a day to give thanks for all that you have and being with your loved ones. Traditionally, you eat roast turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, rolls, lots of pies. Because the turkey has become the central part of the meal a lot of Americans refer to Thanksgiving as Turkey Day.

**Giselle** · 11-25-2006, 12:30 PM

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving celebration and is enjoying the holiday week end!

A very belated Canadian Thanksgiving Greetings!