THANKSGIVING
(Reprint of an article written by Tom in 2018.)
POOR Thanksgiving--everything is about candy. In August the candy displays become evident. Back to School and Halloween. Stacks of chocolate, jelly beans and caramels everywhere. And most everyone waits until the last minute to buy..........and now the Halloween exhibits are replaced with Christmas. MORE CANDY, the same candy as Halloween only wrapped in different colors. The goblins are now elves and the pumpkins are trees.
WHAT happened to poor Thanksgiving? Where's the Reese's turkeys and M&M stuffing?
THANKSGIVING is a day without equal rights and mark my words the day will come when turkeys and stuffing and cranberries will march in protest and demand their day when candy will recognize them as a legitimate time to display confectionary products. They will require the horn of plenty to spew forth with gum drops and chocolate, not sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie. How many butter fingers have had their heads chopped to feed you?
THE minute after midnight on December 25th down come the Christmas displays and up goes Easter. More candy. Red and green M&M's become pastel and the Santas become rabbits. The day may come when you go to church and receive communion and will be given a baby ruth and glass of chocolate syrup.
THE English language is undoubtedly the most humorous in existence.....we speak of brother and also a brethern, but though we say mother we never say methren. And while the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim! If dad is a pop, mom should be mop. Your house can burn up while burning down and you fill in a form while filling it out--and--an alarm goes off by going on.
IF you try to fail but succeed, which have you done