Happy Franksgiving

[LDAHL]

I read an interesting story this morning. It seems that during the FDR administration, that first golden age of executive overreach, the President decided to move Thanksgiving back a week to lengthen the Christmas shopping season.

Some states refused to comply, and for a while people talked about Democrat and Republican Thanksgivings. Wags referred to the holiday as “Franksgiving”.

[Tybee]

I read an interesting story this morning. It seems that during the FDR administration, that first golden age of executive overreach, the President decided to move Thanksgiving back a week to lengthen the Christmas shopping season.

Some states refused to comply, and for a while people talked about Democrat and Republican Thanksgivings. Wags referred to the holiday as “Franksgiving”.

Which one are we celebrating today?

[LDAHL]

Which one are we celebrating today?

Despite the best efforts of the politics-are-personal minority, I view it as a nonpartisan holiday that prizes gratitude over grievance. And of course football.

[Tybee]

Despite the best efforts of the politics-are-personal minority, I view it as a nonpartisan holiday that prizes gratitude over grievance. And of course football.

Sorry, I meant are we on the earlier one or the later one?

[LDAHL]

Sorry, I meant are we on the earlier one or the later one?

Tradition won in the end. There’s a cute joke about it in “Holiday Inn”, where the turkey runs back and forth between two dates on the calendar before settling on the later one.

[Tybee]

Tradition won in the end. There’s a cute joke about it in “Holiday Inn”, where the turkey runs back and forth between two dates on the calendar before settling on the later one.

That's funny, I do like that movie and watch it every year and missed it!

[LDAHL]

That's funny, I do like that movie and watch it every year and missed it!

It’s one of the tiny minority of Christmas movies I can tolerate, but I never got that joke until I read the article.

[Tradd]

I’ve never seen the whole movie for Holiday Inn. Will have to look it up this season.