Comments on: Top 5 Worst Thanksgivings

By: luyolokhusi

luyolokhusi — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:22:09 +0000

Was it important it to include “including two Americans’ on the missionary massacre ain’t they just people as well.

By: Pie

Pie — Thu, 12 May 2011 10:00:17 +0000

Where is Chandlers worst Thanksgiving?
I thought that would have ended up on the list…

“Moorree Turkeey Misster Chaandlerr?”

By: Talim

Talim — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:28:29 +0000

I can’t believe all that happened Thanksgiving! Who goes to football games on a holiday, though?
Any way, nice list-wait not a really ‘nice’ list but…..
you know what I mean.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:03:18 +0000

Nathan Bedford Forrest and five additional ex-Confederate officers formed the Ku Klux Klan most likely on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, TN as an organized effert to fight Reconstruction (the date is in contention due to the extreme secrecy of the early Klan). It did not specifically target blacks or former slaves, but anyone who supported and cooperated with Reconstruction.

In 1869, Forrest ordered the Klan to disband (most likely on the introduction of the Enforcement Acts that Congress passed in 1870-71 outlawing Jim Crow laws) and it officially ceased to exist as an organized group, but unofficially continued to exist in smaller communities all throughout the South. By the end of Reconstruction, the Klan had sufficiently lost power, but it remained a viable organization until William Simmons founded the Second Ku Klux Klan on Thanksgiving, 1915 in what would ultimately become a much more organized and violent offspring of the original.

-As a historian, I just like to make sure that the facts are represented accurately.

By: Monkey Nuts

Monkey Nuts — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:24:52 +0000

You forgot the first thanksgiveing, in which the Indians helped the puritans(assholes) survive, only ultimately to be genocided for their efforts.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:24:19 +0000

Wow. The ‘Missionary Massacre’ description could have been handled with a little more tact.

By: Mathilda

Mathilda — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:43:52 +0000

My favorite fictional worst Thanksgiving was the “Turkeys Away” episode of the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati, where, as explained by Wikipedia “Without informing anybody, Carlson [the general manager] decides to stage his own promotion for Thanksgiving, which involves dropping twenty live turkeys from a helicopter to unsuspecting supermarket shoppers below. He expects that the turkeys to gently flutter to the ground and be taken away by delighted shoppers. The scene is reported live on the air by news director Les Nessman, breathlessly describing the unseen birds plummeting to the ground, in a parody of Herbert Morrison’s famous coverage of the Hindenburg disaster: “It’s a helicopter, and it’s coming this way. It’s flying something behind it, I can’t quite make it out, it’s a large banner and it says, uh – Happy… Thaaaaanksss… giving! … From … W … K … R… P!! No parachutes yet. Can’t be skydivers… I can’t tell just yet what they are, but – Oh my God, they’re turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they’re plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!” Afterwards, the shaken Carlson explains, “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

Hope everyone had a good day, Thanksgiving or otherwise, and no one had a turkey fall through their windshield. :)

By: jfrater

jfrater — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:27:52 +0000

smac: beyond a doubt!

By: smac

smac — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:22:40 +0000

This list makes cursing at your family and throwing food look like no big deal. Those are some pretty horrible tragedies.

By: TerranRich

TerranRich — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:15:49 +0000

Jeff, that KKK entry was for a revival of the KKK, not its creation. At least that’s what I gather. I don’t follow racist organizations all that much.