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Jughead P. Jones
10-09-2006, 10:10 AM
Here's hoping that all you are having a happy Columbus Day!

Unfortunately, in Canada, we're celebrating Thanksgiving, so we miss out on the whole Columbus Day experience.

Not that I'm complaining, of course. :D

Have a great day!
Snowflake
10-09-2006, 10:22 AM
It's a good excuse for a holiday, one that I never get off work because I work in a law office. If I worked in a bank or the post office, yeah, I'd get the day.

A good excuse to have pasta for dinner, though! :D

What is the Thanksgiving holiday in Canada? Forgive my ignorant question, but I don't know the history of it.
wendybeth
10-09-2006, 01:19 PM
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Let me see...the traditional Canadian feast is probably Canadian bacon pizza and LaBatts, right?;)
Snowflake
10-09-2006, 01:28 PM
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Let me see...the traditional Canadian feast is probably Canadian bacon pizza and LaBatts, right?;)

Unless you're in Montreal, then it will be Poutine!
wendybeth
10-09-2006, 01:33 PM
Lol! Pine tar and Poutine! (KoL reference there).
RStar
10-09-2006, 01:55 PM
Unfortunately, in Canada, we're celebrating Thanksgiving, so we miss out on the whole Columbus Day experience.

Ya, but Columbus didn't discover your country. But since people already lived here, he really didn't anyway.....
Jughead P. Jones
10-09-2006, 02:08 PM
Ya, but Columbus didn't discover your country. But since people already lived here, he really didn't anyway.....

I thought Columbus discovered Ohio...:confused:
Jughead P. Jones
10-09-2006, 02:11 PM
What is the Thanksgiving holiday in Canada? Forgive my ignorant question, but I don't know the history of it.

I'm not exactly sure of the history behind it, but I'm assuming that it's a similar tale as how Thanksgiving in America came to be. Both are celebrated almost exactly the same way...just six weeks apart.

The reason we celebrate in October is because of climate...as you know, by late November, we're buried in ice and snow :D , so we have to harvest our stuff earlier so that it doesn't go bad, or get destroyed, or all the wonderful stuff like that.
Jughead P. Jones
10-09-2006, 02:12 PM
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Let me see...the traditional Canadian feast is probably Canadian bacon pizza and LaBatts, right?;)

That's what we eat the other 364 days a year. :D
Jughead P. Jones
10-09-2006, 02:13 PM
Unless you're in Montreal, then it will be Poutine!

LOL! Actually, I live not too far away from the Ontario/Quebec border (approximately a 2 hour drive from here), so we have poutines here too.

Very tasty things...very bad for cholesterol purposes though, so I can only eat like one a year...but very tasty.
Cadaverous Pallor
10-09-2006, 07:03 PM
I enjoyed Columbus Day
€uroMeinke
10-09-2006, 08:58 PM
Columbus Day is one of my favorite holidays
Drince88
10-10-2006, 04:56 AM
There were only 2 ways I could tell it was Columbus Day - the parking garage was a little emptier (there are some federal govt offices in our building), and I didn't get any mail delivered.

I don't think the public schools around here get it off (heck, they don't get Memorial Day off, and my company gets that one!), because there were protests at one of the high schools yesterday. (Something about the students wanting a couple of pesky things: books and teachers!)

Happy Belated Thanksgiving to all the Canadians!
RStar
10-10-2006, 06:56 AM
How come we don't have a Cook Day? He discovered the Hawaiian Islands (calling them the Sandwich Islands) that are now apart of America??!!:confused:
Mousey Girl
10-10-2006, 07:21 AM
Only thing around here that noted the day was no mail. Boy still had school, I still had work. This just means that my pay check will be here on Thursday instead of Wednesday (temp work, get paid weekly, via the mail).

Boy will get Veterans day, but I will have to work. The Old People will take him to the parade for me.
Ghoulish Delight
10-10-2006, 08:09 AM
Best Columbuds Day ever.
Snowflake
10-10-2006, 08:16 AM
Columbus Day is one of my favorite holidays

Come up to SF for the Columbus Day parade, they're fun. You're in North Beach (always a great place to be), the parade's fun, then in the afternoon there are the Blue Angels jetting overhead (cause it's always the same weekend as Fleet Week). Good food, good beverages, mass in the cathedral should you so desire and bocce ball and a load of great people.
Cadaverous Pallor
10-10-2006, 08:27 AM
Best Columbuds Day ever.Heehee - people will think the typo is purposeful - it's not.
Not Afraid
10-10-2006, 09:05 AM
I will have to perfect the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria Water Ballet before next year.
Jughead P. Jones
10-10-2006, 05:49 PM
Yay! I'm so glad all of you had a great Columbus Day!

(Even if you were all lying through your teeth...:D)