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Let's give in and all do the "brotherhood" bit.Just make sure we don't make a habit of it.
The First Thanksgiving, Stan Freberg (1961, from "The United States of America: The Early Years," Capitol W/SW-1573), via YouTube, embedded for noncommercial critical discussion and educational purposes.
you did a thing like that?
ReplyDeleteMy Purfooot of Happineff always included the Auditorium Theater on Thanksgiving night. Good times....
ReplyDeleteOur European ancestors who "founded" America (or was it "found" America") introduce the most lethal of pathogens to the Indians in smallpox, (we will assume after lunch) which sometimes incapacitated so many adults at once that deaths from hunger and starvation ran as high as deaths from disease; in several cases, entire tribes were rendered extinct, thus taking over and establishing government?
ReplyDeleteAnd the other killers included measles, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, and scarlet fever, and possibly syphilis?
Ha! Puritans. They really knew how to establish government control, even if it did take them a while.
Stanley: yes, I did. And we really *did* eat the horses, too.
ReplyDeletegurlitzer: I was there for one, and maybe two, of them (you might remember better than me). My main memories are the hassle of sneaking a gigantic cassette recorder into the Auditorium and worrying over it much of the night. The second year I think I was taking poorly exposed 35mm photos from the cheap seats, the resulting negatives being mangled in one or two different ways before a drug store made crappy prints from them.
Anon: yes, those Puritans really know how to conduct lovely little "low intensity" wars of attrition, don't they. But don't forget the gift of "fire water," that liquid IED that keeps on giving to this very day.