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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?Quote:
Originally Posted by LDAHL
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
Sorry, I meant are we on the earlier one or the later one?Quote:
Originally Posted by LDAHL
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
That's funny, I do like that movie and watch it every year and missed it!Quote:
Originally Posted by LDAHL
It’s one of the tiny minority of Christmas movies I can tolerate, but I never got that joke until I read the article.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
I’ve never seen the whole movie for Holiday Inn. Will have to look it up this season.