Where's Daria?

Is Daria goona be on at all this week? I peaked through the tv guide and couldn't find a single episode airing.

Oops! Too many typos. Should say:

Is Daria gonna be on at all this week? I peeked through the tv guide this week and couldn't find a single episode airing"

Check out MTV's web site. It's pretty accurate once they get around to posting the information for the week--unless there's a last-minute change. There won't be any Daria all week until the Daria-thon this Sunday. Until then we'll just have to survive going Daria-less.

It'll be a challenge, but I think I can cope. After all, I have it on tape. ;-)

Maybe MTV figures everyone in the U.S. will be celebrating Thanksgiving with their families--reminding themselves why they scattered in the first place.

Bob

Laniakea wrote in message ...

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"R. K. Henry" wrote:

This is totally irrelevant, but what exactly *is* Thanksgiving? I have always wondered that; noone in this country knows and all I have discovered so far is that it involves turkeys and pilgrims, and I'm not even sure what a pilgrim is....

I think it's something to do with the invasion of America by European settlers a few hunded years ago.

Shez wrote:

Yeah, that's pretty much it. But you're forgetting the bit about thefootball. I never much liked Thanksgiving, because some of my very least favorite things include turkey, yams, gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, football, and my relatives. I've always spent Thanksgiving holed up in my room hiding from my relatives (especially the 65+ and the 5-11 sets). Athough this year I get to go and visit my SO for the week in Oregon,

so I'm hoping it'll improve.

--J.

Thanksgiving is an American holiday. It is to remember the first pilgrims who survived a terrible winter and had their first harvest with the Indians (Native Americans) who helped them.

Lately we celebrate this day by having a big feast (usually consisting of turkey, corn, yams, mashed potatoes, cranberries, pumpkin pie, etc.) with friends and family. Plus there are televised parades and a lot of football.

Laniakea of AOL http://www.aol.com writes:

Ah, it's all coming back to me now! It's that scene from Addams Family Values isn't it, where Wednesday burns the cutesy blonde pilgrim at the stake. That was the coolest.

-Shez.

Laniakea wrote in message ...

Oh, Liz, curses on whoever did such a good job of teaching you to punctuate properly! If only you'd said

:turkey, corn, yams, mashed potatoes, cranberries, pumpkin pie, etc. with :friends and family.

I could have replied, "Sounds delicious. Mwahahahaaa... A feast fit for Kazul!"

But you didn't, so I can't.

Martin.

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 23:02:28 -0000, "Martin Sylvester" wrote:

LOL. Friends taste great but I'll take a slice of uncle.

Would it be a form of incest to cannibalise your own family? If only I had an oven large enough to do the deed!

- Oh! that's a meat thermometer? well I don't have a fever, that's for sure. -Ben Katz

Happydude wrote in message ...

But do you need an oven? I went to a fireworks party & barbecue the Queen gave at Windsor Great Park, where the Army Catering Corps were roasting (IIRC - there was lots of champagne & Guinness) whole oxen on revolving spits. (Don't go getting the idea that Her Majesty rang up and said, "Hi, Martin, It's Liz, are you doing anything on Saturday night?" - there were thousands of others there as well. Well, hundreds.)

Dispense with the oven, dig a fire pit, and give new meaning to the phrase, "Grandad's having a funny turn." <g>

Martin.

Martin Sylvester wrote:

When we went on holiday this year to the south of Greece, we found this place where they were roasting entire pigs. We had some of it; delicious and very cheap.

LOL.

Eww!

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 23:37:06 -0000, "Martin Sylvester" wrote:

Hehe. You shoudn't be telling me these things. I could hit myself for not thinking of a fire pit. Arms and legs could easily be prepared in an oven but the rest goes on a spit. (don't forget to put an apple in the mouth.)

When cooking for family....err umm I mean cooking family, always follow this bit of wisdom given to us by Daria from the Teachings of Don Jake.

"....and within minutes it devoured the rest of his body leaving only the lower intestine for fear of bacteria."

Is there anything we can't learn from Daria?

- Oh! that's a meat thermometer? well I don't have a fever, that's for sure. -Ben Katz

Happydude wrote:

Hmm...I don't like apple...

No. Nothing. Daria's the Messiah. No, wait, that's John Squire.... OK, so noone will get that joke, but nevermind.

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:24:34 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:

Isn't he the former guitarist for the Stone Roses?

- Oh! that's a meat thermometer? Well I don't have a fever, that's for sure. -Ben Katz

Happydude wrote:

Yes. But knowing that alone will not help you get the joke. It's a loooong story....

Happydude wrote:

Uncle...no, I'll pass on that. I'll have some baby cousin.

No...how could it be? You're going to eat them, not screw them! I hope, anyway....

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:12:23 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:

No problem there. We raise them on the family-farm like veal.

No, we eat eachother for nourishment only, not arrousal. I come from an odd family but not THAT odd.

- Oh! that's a meat thermometer? well I don't have a fever, that's for sure. -Ben Katz

Laniakea wrote:

So...what *is* a pilgrim?

Do you have turkey at Christmas too? 'cos that's when people eat turkey in this country.

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:21:19 +0000, "endless, nameless" wrote:

Pilgrims were European defectors who came to the new world to seek religious freedom. They were mostly fundamentalist wing-nuts.

Ham is usually the prefered meal at Christmas but it is not unusual to eat turkey during Christmas nor is it unusual to eat ham on Thankgiving.

- Oh! that's a meat thermometer? well I don't have a fever, that's for sure. -Ben Katz

Well, technically, a pilgrim is anyone that makes a religious journey.

In article ,

Sounds like me, although the relatives don't bother me too much. But on Thanskgiving day, you'll usually find me at the dinner table munching on cold pizza (which I like), or some other alternative dish because I don't like turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and other such bland Thanskgiving offerings. I DO have to face my dad's ridicule for this but he'll pay for it twenty years from now when they come to MY house for Thanksgiving ("Turkey? Oh, no no no no no. You should have brought your own. Now who wants Crazy Bread?")

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

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place.

Mostly, it's a long weekend.

Technically, it's a legal national holiday (no mail, banks and most businesses closed). Its stated purpose is to stop and give thanks for whatever you think needs giving thanks. Religious context is whatever you care to make it--a personal thing.

Practically, it's a time for families to catch a plane or drive the car to convene for a big, fancy, dinner on the good china to be together with the extended family. It's said to be the biggest travel day of the year. Grandma and Grandpa get a chance to see the young-uns and see how they've grown. Then the guys, Granddad, Dad, and the boys, go sit in the living room and scream at the football games on TV while the women-folk clean up in the kitchen--a traditional family scene. A family day. Not really a bad thing, especially if you're on good terms with your family--an opportunity to build bridges if you're not. One thing to remember: some of those family members aren't going to be there forever. (It really makes you think.) Take along a camcorder and ask them to recount what it was like back when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Put the tape in a time capsule. Tape the younger members too. You can use the tape to embarass them when they're older.

Economically, it's the official starting day of the Christmas shopping season. The next day, when all the stores reopen, crowds converge on shopping centers to start shopping for the useless crap they'll wrap up for Christmas. Since many businesses do most of their sales volume at this time of year, it's a very significant economic event. Economists and businessmen wait with bated breath for the early sales figures for day-after-Thanksgiving to guesstimate whether it will be a good year, economically, or whether a recession is in the offing.

The pilgrim story is mostly just a part of the mythology. It isn't really an essential part of the holiday, just a part of the tradition that kind of sets the mood. Essentially the pilgrims were religious separatists who fled England, first to Holland, then to what is now Massachusetts, adopting the name of "pilgrims" for themselves. They were ill-prepared for the adventure and during that first winter in 1620 about half of them died. If it hadn't been for the help of the Indians who taught them a few tricks about how to survive, the next winter might have brought similar results. Thanks to the new technology acquired from their Indian friends and some hard work (a work ethic moral also goes with the story) the harvest of 1621 found them better prepared for winter and they celebrated their good fortune with a thanksgiving party.

The whole thing might have ended there but in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln found himself entangled with a really messy war with the southern states. Probably to help take people's minds off the war, he proclaimed a thanksgiving celebration to give thanks for the fact that things weren't even worse. In 1939 President Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday in November rather than the last Thursday so that the Christmas shopping season could be longer.

The connection with turkeys is that supposedly part of the fare at the first thanksgiving was wild turkey which the hunters were able to take. No doubt turkey farmers try to encourage this tradition as most turkeys served now are brought home from the grocer rather than from hours of hiking around in a field carrying a shotgun, but in fact there are many different dishes served at Thanksgiving dinners. I've seen ham or beef served instead of turkey and I'm sure there are plenty of other variations. It's not really the meal but the thought that counts. Nevertheless, Thanksgiving is often referred to as "turkey day."

Now what I'm wondering is: How would Daria and Jane have answered the question?

One upbeat thought: Thanksgiving is also celebrated with the traditional Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Think Daria Balloon! Bart has a balloon, why not Daria?

If they made a balloon out of Daria, then--technically--would she be an air-head? How would that be appropriate for a "brain"?

Q: If April showers bring May flowers, what do Mayflowers bring? A: Pilgrims!

Bob