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I just wanted to explain to the offlanders, uh, that...when I was a lad, Thanksgiving was explained as being a holiday for giving thanks during the harvest time. The image of the cornucopia, or horn of plenty, was prominent in decorations. Okay, okay. So a day of feasting was very appropriate to that.
In the 70's, I recall, there was an interesting thing introduced during Thanksgivings which still exists to this day...the television tradition of running "marathons" of one sort or another--usually one TV station would run episodes of The Twilight Zone all day long. A couple of years, it was a whole day of continuous Godzilla films. My earliest memories of this type of TV programming was a whole day, more or less, of King Kong (1933), run at least four or five times that day and into the evening.
This type of programming may seem odd but it was always strangely appropriate. Feasting celebrants would chow down on whatever tasty victuals were at hand and then sit around the TV and let their minds drift away watching really weird and somewhat ghoulish fantasy programs.
It is for this reason that many people think of Thanksgiving as Halloween's older and slightly more mature cousin twice removed.
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