Thanksgiving

[whotheheckami]

It's November and Christmas is looming ahead of us. However, the fourth Thursday in November is when Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. The American Thanksgiving holiday grew out of various harvest festivals but has come to mean more than just giving thanks for crops. Harvest is still an important festival for Sarah and me, but we have lots of other

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[eremite]

1) I'm not sure that we have a national thing to be thankful for that isn't already covered, e.g. Remembrance Day.

2) n/a

3) We could have "Don't Let The Door Smack You On The Arse On The Way Out" day in September to celebrate the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers for the Americas: we all head for the nearest beach on a Sunday between 06 and 16 September, wave happily at the horizon for a few minutes, then have a piss-up.

4) David Zindell created the Festival of the Broken Dolls for abandoned AI programs in his fiction. I like the idea of a Festival of Dolls, a happy parade of loved and precious things, from broken down old teddy bears to exquisite china dollies swathed in lace. One proviso - Korean ball-jointed dolls go at the back.

[quercus]

If you think ball-jointed Dolfies are scary, how about Heart Robot?

[eremite]

I wonder if they'll put a heartlight into it, a la E.T.?

I like the concept, but that picture of it lying over someone's shoulder looks remarkably creepy - like the end of The Omen or something!

[inulro]

I could get behind no. 3.

[darth_tigger]

I like number 3!

[whotheheckami]

Number 3 is brilliant and could easilly be a Harvest/Thanksgiving as well