Thanksgiving Jokes and Trivia

Thanksgiving Jokes and Trivia

• Thanksgiving one-liners
• Thanksgiving Alphabet
• Thanksgiving Trivia
• Did you know?
• Thanksgiving quotes
• Strange But True Thanksgiving Tale
• Unusual Thanksgiving Present 
• Thanksgiving Miracle
• Thanksgiving poem

Thanksgiving one-liners:

• Where did the first corn come from? The stalk brought it
• Why did the Indian chief wear so many feathers?  To keep his wigwam
• What happened to the Pilgrim who was shot at by an Indian? He had an arrow escape
• How did the Mayflower show that it liked America? It hugged the shore
• Which side of the turkey has the most feathers? The outside
• Can a turkey jump higher than the Empire State Building? Yes - a building can't jump at all

Thanksgiving Alphabet

T ... Turkeys, table-spreads, being together,
H ... Happiness and homes to protect us from all weather,
A ... Aunts and uncles, a reunion in Fall,
N ... Nieces and nephews, family members all.
K ... Kind-hearted kin coming over for dinner,
S ... Surely you'll have fun, but you won't get thinner,

G ... Gourds and pumpkins, mouths open wide,
I ... Indians and Pilgrims we remember with pride,
V ... Very special times-there could even be snow,
I ... Imagine what it was like at Plymouth long ago,
N ... Never forget how the settlers led the way,
G ... Giving thanks and blessing this special day.

Thanksgiving Trivia

The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States.

In 2007 it is reckoned that nearly 300 million turkeys have been reared for Thanksgiving celebrations. In the UK it is approximately 10 million for Christmas Day.

Also, there appear to be three place in the USA named after this traditional meal: Turkey in Texas [population 489]; Turkey Creek, Louisiana [population 363]; and Turkey, North Carolina [population 270]. Three towns in Kansas also have the name Turkey. Do you know of any others?

Following this discovery we have found that there are a number of places named Cranberry – perhaps after the sauce often eaten with turkey. The biggest appears to be Cranberry in Butler County, Pennsylvania with 27,600 inhabitants.

Plymouth Rock, where the Pilgrim Father's landed, is celebrated by claiming 28 sites in the US named after it and, of course, after the Devon city, in England, from where they set sail. Minnesota and Massachusetts have the biggest conurbations and Pilgrim in Dade County, Missouri the smallest with a population of some 135 good folk.

Thanksgiving quotes for you to consider and enjoy:

• Estonian Proverb: Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much.
• Meister Eckhart: If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you', that would suffice.
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. says: We will speed the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing... Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.
• Erma Bombeck: No One Diets on Thanksgiving. What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
• George Carlin: We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing.
• Johnny Carson: Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.
• Gerald Good: If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
• Henri J. M. Nouwen: Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift.
• Rita Rudner: My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
• Charles Lamb: Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Strange But True Thanksgiving Tale

This true story involves a tin of gravy bought for the Thanksgiving Day dinner but was used for a completely different purpose in 2007.

A man who was dropping his mother off parked his vehicle in front of the entrance to the nursing home where she resided at exactly the same time as another man was returning his relative by car. Finding that the entrance to the home was blocked, the second man began an argument with the first and eventually threw a can of gravy hitting the first man on the head. Once again, no one was hurt and police from West Valley City, Utah, USA, later said that there would be no charges brought. Police were unable to confirm to Will or Guy the flavour of the gravy.

Unusual Thanksgiving Present

On the morning of Thanksgiving in 2007 at about 1am a husband received a most unusual Thanksgiving present from his wife: a potato. Yes, the 43 year old wife presented it to him by throwing it in his face, striking him on the nose and rendering him unconscious. When Police arrived they listened to the explanation.

The couple, in Nicholson, Georgia, USA, had been drinking and they began to argue in their kitchen. When the man called the woman a rude named she reached for the first object that came to hand – a potato and flung it at him. When he regained consciousness the husband did told the police that he would not press charges – thankfully.

Thanksgiving Miracle

Bradley Priebe is a miracle child claims his mother, Anna, as she offered up her own Thanksgiving prayers. While celebrating Thanksgiving Day in Brooklyn, USA, in a third floor apartment the14 month old baby fell from an open window some 20 feet onto a music shop roof below. Bradley not only survived, he didn't even break a bone. His father Brandon told police that his son wasn't seriously injured in the fall. The local hospital released the child after a period of observation.

Thanksgiving poem:

The year has turned its circle,
The seasons come and go.
The harvest all is gathered in
And chilly north winds blow.
Orchards have shared their treasures,
The fields, their yellow grain,
So open wide the doorway~
Thanksgiving comes again.

          [Author: Unknown]

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