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Richard's Poor Almanac - Thursday December 8, 2011 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

Richard's Poor Almanac - Thursday December 8, 2011 Comic Strip
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RICHARD'S POOR ALMANAC © Richard Thompson. Dist. By ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.

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historic thanksgiving highlights we all know the first thanksgiving was in 1621. but there's more 1645 - 1st intrusion of christmas commercialism. barrels all kinds! pre-xmas sale at the 24th thanksgiving euphasia pewfiller advertises his pre-xmas barrel-making crazy days sale. he is hanged forthwith. 1689 - 1st person to get "creative" with stuffing. priddygood churchlywife unveils her maize & truffle surprise stuffing. she is transported back to engalnd & forcibly converted to catholicism. 1781 - 1st cranbery relish that retains the shape of its can. invented by benjamin franklin, it is decried as "an abomination" and "of ungodly resiliency." but eventually it catches on. 12,000 b.c. - 1st handprint turkey. astoundingly, cave painters employed this artistic device 13,621 years before the first thanksgiving!