David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com> writes: > > Happy Thanksgiving (or whatever you call it when there's nobody to > > give thanks to! ;-> ) > That's just what it's called. It's an eating holiday. Sort of the modern replacement for the pagan harvest festival holiday. (In the same way that Christmas replaces Saturnalia and other pagan winter solstice holidays and Easter replaces the vernal equinox/spring fertility festival holidays [in the US, right down to the fecund Easter Bunny and those inimitable symbols of fertility, eggs :-)].) -- Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/