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Eug · Oct 13, 2008, 08:07 AM

It's Thanksgiving in Canada. Hope you have a good one. Unfortunately, I'm working all day.

RAILhead · Oct 13, 2008, 08:11 AM

We'll reciprocate November 27th.

Dakar V · Oct 13, 2008, 08:16 AM

You crazy canadian bastards.

Railroader · Oct 13, 2008, 10:08 AM

Eh?

brassplayersrock² · Oct 13, 2008, 10:10 AM

Happy Thanksgiving Eug.

osiris · Oct 13, 2008, 11:54 AM

Happy Thanksgiving!

It begins.

imitchellg5 · Oct 13, 2008, 04:07 PM

Happy Thanksgiving. Sorry you have to work all day

ghporter · Oct 13, 2008, 09:48 PM

I had the day off, but because some Italian guy got the king and queen of Spain to bankroll him on some silly quest to find India the hard way...

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. Maybe you'll get OUR Thanksgiving off...

keekeeree · Oct 13, 2008, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

I had the day off, but because some Italian guy got the king and queen of Spain to bankroll him on some silly quest to find India the hard way...

Columbus Day should be renamed Incompetence Day.

Imagine if the Apollo missions launched, landed and "moonwalked" in the Mojave Desert; called it a success then, instead of actually going to the moon, just kept going back to the desert.

Monique · Oct 14, 2008, 08:34 AM

Happy thanksgiving if it means anything to you.

For the French people it means nothing just a day off.

Railroader · Oct 14, 2008, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Monique

Happy thanksgiving if it means anything to you.

For the French people it means nothing just a day off.

Why would people living in France get a day off?

imitchellg5 · Oct 14, 2008, 07:06 PM

Since they don't have enough courage to create their own holidays they celebrate other peoples.

ghporter · Oct 14, 2008, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by keekeeree

Columbus Day should be renamed Incompetence Day.

Imagine if the Apollo missions launched, landed and "moonwalked" in the Mojave Desert; called it a success then, instead of actually going to the moon, just kept going back to the desert.

This was more of an example of proving the feasibility of leaving the atmosphere, rather than pretending to walk on the Moon. Of course it didn't "prove" the Earth is round; that was proven centuries before. But it did show that navigation across the sea, without a coastline in sight for weeks on end, was not only possible, but practical. Leaving the racism and empire-building aspects aside (which we really can't judge the Spanish for from our vantage point, since they didn't have it), it was indeed a monumental task and one that was truly a success for them, though for the wrong reasons.

(Cultural relativism is a smug way to judge people who had no chance of knowing what we know now and find them wanting. It isn't an attractive trait.)

Monique, there's a distinct sense of not just discomfort but anger in your post. Can you please let those of us who aren't French Canadian in on why you feel that way?

keekeeree · Oct 15, 2008, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by ghporter

Leaving the racism and empire-building aspects aside (which we really can't judge the Spanish for from our vantage point, since they didn't have it)...

Really? We can't judge their actions?

My post was a tongue-in-cheek poke at the elevated status given to Columbus as the discoverer of America.

Sense of humor <-----------vast distance-----------> you

But from my vantage point, which is relative to my culture as a Native American, he discovered nothing and never set foot on the mainland of the Americas.

Brave explorer? Yes. Hero worthy of a holiday? I'd have to say no.

residentEvil · Oct 17, 2008, 06:52 PM

anytime you can get turkey and stuffing without having to do all the work...its a good thing!