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From: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
To: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Test, test
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:07:23 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZWATay-edy-RB_Nd@hydra.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23DC55146670C9A2F08EB6A5C09CC5F1.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>

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On Thursday, 23 November 2023 at 21:45:46 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Stuff Received:
>
>> In the U.S., certainly.  Do Auzzies celebrate thanksgiving?
>
> Grog:
>
>   Not really, but if we did, it would have been yesterday.  But we do
>   get exposed to Black Friday (today).
>
> ===
>
> Why yesterday?  In Canada we had ours a month and a half ago!

Yes, sorry, I know.  And then there are things like the UK Festival of
Harvest Home.  But if they were to introduce Thanksgiving here, it
would follow the US model.  It does presumably have the advantage that
companies don't start with their Christmas advertising in early
October.

Greg
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-11-24  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-24  2:45 Norman Wilson
2023-11-24  2:49 ` Damian Wildie
2023-11-24  3:07 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2023-11-24  4:45   ` Wesley Parish
2023-11-24  5:01     ` Dave Horsfall
2023-11-24  5:05       ` Wesley Parish
2023-11-24  5:12       ` Peter Yardley
2023-11-24  7:04         ` John Cowan
2023-11-24  8:22           ` Steve Nickolas
2023-11-24  5:42   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-11-24  2:58 Norman Wilson
2023-11-24  4:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-11-24  8:16 ` Hellwig Geisse
2023-11-24 14:06   ` Will Senn
2023-11-24 19:41     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-11-24 19:55       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-11-24  0:30 [TUHS] " Warren Toomey via TUHS
2023-11-24  0:33 ` [TUHS] " Niklas Karlsson
2023-11-24  0:37   ` John P. Linderman
2023-11-24  1:03 ` Will Senn
2023-11-24  1:43   ` Stuff Received
2023-11-24  2:20     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-11-24  8:18       ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2023-11-24  8:24       ` arnold
2023-11-24 14:01       ` Will Senn
2023-11-24  2:03 ` Molly A. McCollum
2023-11-24  7:23 ` Sergio Pedraja
2023-11-24 22:11 ` Bakul Shah

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