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#1 2005-11-23 16:39:00

MathsIsFun
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Happy Thanksgiving

To all our American and Canadian Members:

Happy Thanksgiving !

Hope the turkey turns out nice.


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#2 2005-11-23 17:56:57

ryos
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Thanks! Right back at ya! (Doesn't England celebrate Thanksgiving, too?)


El que pega primero pega dos veces.

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#3 2005-11-23 20:05:39

insomnia
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Nope. I didn't even know it was thanksgiving today!


Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly

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#4 2005-11-24 18:42:24

jU
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

It is? didn't know

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#5 2005-11-24 19:00:02

justlookingforthemoment
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Me neither. So... Thanksgiving is always on 24 November?

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#6 2005-11-24 19:51:22

jU
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

cool ok got that in my brain!

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#7 2005-11-25 00:43:18

Jai Ganesh
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

justlookingforthemoment wrote:

Me neither. So... Thanksgiving is always on 24 November?

(1) The fourth Thursday of November, observed as a legal holiday in the United States to commemorate the feast held at Plymouth in 1621 by the Pilgrim colonists and members of the Wampanoag people and marked by the giving of thanks to God for harvest and health.

(2)The second Monday of October, celebrated in Canada by the giving of thanks to God for harvest and health.


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#8 2005-11-25 03:26:54

Zach
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

I give thanks to me being alive.


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#9 2005-11-25 09:54:45

MathsIsFun
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

Zach wrote:

I give thanks to me being alive.

Oh? Did something happen?


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#10 2005-11-28 13:42:07

jU
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

yeah did some thing happen

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