One cold November evening several years ago I was out in the West End with a group of colleagues several of whom were American. The conversation quickly got round to the fast-approaching Thanksgiving holiday since they were having to work their schedules around the event.
Displaying a stunning lack of their own country's history as well as everyone else's, one of them suddenly asked "So, do you Brits celebrate Thanksgiving too?"
While I was hunting frantically for the hidden camera I assumed must be somewhere in the room, I heard one of my British coworkers cheerfully answering the question:
"Sure we do. Except we have it on 6th September instead"
"Why is that" asked the clueless 'merkin.
"Because we celebrate when the Pilgrim Fathers
set sail"
Happy Thanksgiving.
(date checked courtesy of Today-in-History)Labels: fuckwittery
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