Have a Happy Thanksgiving my EVO friends
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Thanks TD and the same to you chaps from the ole Country.
I just made an interesting discovery about Thanksgiving. The English Pilgrim Fathers first fled England to escape Catholicism, and settled in Protestant Holland. Several years later Holland was threatened with invasion by the Spanish (you guessed - Catholics!), so some of them set off for North America. They had to change ships in England, to the Mayflower, because their first ship had sprung a leak.
Not long after they left the Spanish were defeated and so the Dutch nation celebrated their good fortune with a Thanksgiving. Other English settlers from Holland who followed their relatives later took the ceremony with them, so Thanksgiving is Dutch in origin! Some of the English preferred to stay in Holland and their descendents are alive and well today - also very Dutch!
I just made an interesting discovery about Thanksgiving. The English Pilgrim Fathers first fled England to escape Catholicism, and settled in Protestant Holland. Several years later Holland was threatened with invasion by the Spanish (you guessed - Catholics!), so some of them set off for North America. They had to change ships in England, to the Mayflower, because their first ship had sprung a leak.
Not long after they left the Spanish were defeated and so the Dutch nation celebrated their good fortune with a Thanksgiving. Other English settlers from Holland who followed their relatives later took the ceremony with them, so Thanksgiving is Dutch in origin! Some of the English preferred to stay in Holland and their descendents are alive and well today - also very Dutch!
Happy Thanksgiving to the Evo crew, one and all. And you too, TD. 
Dead as fried chicken (or turkey) around the office today. Oh well. But the good news is my fishtails are supposed to arrive, so a happy day it is!
OTOH, I have 36 people coming over tomorrow, most of them in-laws....
Dead as fried chicken (or turkey) around the office today. Oh well. But the good news is my fishtails are supposed to arrive, so a happy day it is!
OTOH, I have 36 people coming over tomorrow, most of them in-laws....
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And to you too TD
Along with the rest of the good folks here.
Got a pleasant surprise at lunch. The boss said "you guys go home and don't come back till Monday"
The door didn't hit my butt leaving
WP
Along with the rest of the good folks here.
Got a pleasant surprise at lunch. The boss said "you guys go home and don't come back till Monday"
The door didn't hit my butt leaving
WP
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