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WCDT 4141-4145 (Nov 25th-29th, 2019)

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Gyrre:
Sorry to be a bit American-centric with this, but here are some lesser known factoids about the history of Thanksgiving Day in America.

* The Pilgrim Fathers at the Plymouth Feast in 1621 weren't Puritans. They were Brownist Separatists.
* The first thanksgiving celebration held in what would become the USA was in 1541 by the Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in what is now the Texas panhandle.
* The second was held by French Huguenauts in a settlement near what is now Jacksonville, Florida.
* The first thanksgiving celebration with both Europeans and Native Americans was shared at St. Augustine between the Spaniards and the Timicuans.
* The celebration had by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag in 1621 was a harvest festival instead of a thanksgiving celebration.
* Tisquantum ("Squanto") and Samoset spoke English because they were kidnapped by an Englishman, purchased by Spanish friars, escaped, made their way to London, spent 5 years there, and then managed to get back to North America only to find that Tisquantum's tribe had died of plague.
* Allegedly, the first thing the Pilgrims heard upon meeting Samoset was "Do you have any beer?"
* Tisquantum was basically the only reason the Pilgrims not only didn't starve, but didn't get themselves killed by the Wampanoag (repeatedly). By all accounts, the man should be canonized as a saint (miracle: keeping the peace for ~50 years).
* Plymouth Rock was founded on Tisquantum's abandoned hometown.
* Washington had declared his first presidential Thanksgiving in 1789, and one as a general in 1777, the same month the Continental Congress set theirs. Well before magazine editress Sarah Hale wrote to President Lincoln.
* The first dish to emerge as a traditional Thanksgiving entree was pork ribs, not turkey.
EDIT: typo corrections

Gyrre:
New comic is up.

I;m half tempted to bring back the create a caption threads for that last panel, but I'm uncertain as to how to do them.

shanejayell:
BUUUUUUUTTTTS.

*lol*

BenRG:
I'm thinking that Millifeulle is desperately wishing that she'd taken up Faye's offer of a blindfold and a pair of headphones with soothing classical music playing over them. There are certain conversations that I, for one, would always feel intensely better having not heard and a discussion about the content of my buttocks is one of them!

It says all sorts of good things about Sam that her first and overriding concern is that Millie not be feeling any discomfort. It says lots of interesting things about Milli that she is trying to reassure Sam as a priority!

"Thermal decoupler" is an interesting technical name for what's basically an electrical hot knife.

JimC:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 24 Nov 2019, 23:27 ---"Thermal decoupler" is an interesting technical name for what's basically an electrical hot knife.
--- End quote ---
Who knows...  My imagination made it a permanent but invisible seam with some sort of heat sensitive adhesive, so the application of the tool opens the pre existing seam.  Another question is that of stretch. Do they need to add extra skin to allow for the implants, or like human skin will it adapt by itself?

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