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Game #3171: Thanksgiving Thief
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Hi everyone! First I have something important to say: If you are not a known inactive but not on my friends list and want to join this game, please friend me and message me saying that you'd like to join this game.
Second, a few technicalities and a story. (Mainly story) It was just your average Thanksgiving dinner, when everyone stood up to pray and closed their eyes. Unfortunately, when they opened them and sat back down, the turkey was gone! The fifteen guests all gasped and started talking, each with their own suspicions, but unbeknownst to the guests, two of them had stolen the turkey secretly. Who was the thief? (The thief is the boss. The host is the rat.)
Third, a small shoutout. I am going to be modeling this off of LogicalRoger's Halloween game "Trick or Treat," so I'd like to acknowledge him and hope that he'll join!
Fourth, a little clue (literally.) Just like in LR's game, you guys can all choose a Thanksgiving food to partake of (I will post a list every round.) If the randomizer chooses, one of you may be getting a clue!
And fifth, there will be a Google Form each round for a prompt, and the randomizer will choose two employees/rat's prompts and then the boss/rat's prompt. (I'm totally modeling this after LR's game ) You will also submit your food for that round through the prompt. So, here we go with this round's prompt, and enjoy! Please fill out the form after joining
Round 1 Prompt
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fear my cuteness.
Second, a few technicalities and a story. (Mainly story) It was just your average Thanksgiving dinner, when everyone stood up to pray and closed their eyes. Unfortunately, when they opened them and sat back down, the turkey was gone! The fifteen guests all gasped and started talking, each with their own suspicions, but unbeknownst to the guests, two of them had stolen the turkey secretly. Who was the thief? (The thief is the boss. The host is the rat.)
Third, a small shoutout. I am going to be modeling this off of LogicalRoger's Halloween game "Trick or Treat," so I'd like to acknowledge him and hope that he'll join!
Fourth, a little clue (literally.) Just like in LR's game, you guys can all choose a Thanksgiving food to partake of (I will post a list every round.) If the randomizer chooses, one of you may be getting a clue!
And fifth, there will be a Google Form each round for a prompt, and the randomizer will choose two employees/rat's prompts and then the boss/rat's prompt. (I'm totally modeling this after LR's game ) You will also submit your food for that round through the prompt. So, here we go with this round's prompt, and enjoy! Please fill out the form after joining
Round 1 Prompt
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fear my cuteness.
Heyyo!
Would you be so kind as to let me partake in the creamed corn?
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Would you be so kind as to let me partake in the creamed corn?
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Hey MEDIC sounds interesting
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You should put a thank you note after every submission as well. Tis the season and all.
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Hey guys! Still mad at Lr
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Hi!
I don't really know what Thanksgiving is (or what food they have) because I'm not American, would anyone inform me?
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I don't really know what Thanksgiving is (or what food they have) because I'm not American, would anyone inform me?
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Chemistry is awesome!
Don't worry, I'll post a list of available food at each round
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada and the United States as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.
Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among almost all religions after harvests and at other times.[1] The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated.[1][2]
In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VIII and in reaction to the large number of religious holidays on the Catholic calendar. Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work and sometimes pay for expensive celebrations. The 1536 reforms reduced the number of Church holidays to 27, but some Puritans wished to completely eliminate all Church holidays, including Christmas and Easter. The holidays were to be replaced by specially called Days of Fasting or Days of Thanksgiving, in response to events that the Puritans viewed as acts of special providence. Unexpected disasters or threats of judgement from on high called for Days of Fasting. Special blessings, viewed as coming from God, called for Days of Thanksgiving. For example, Days of Fasting were called on account of drought in 1611, floods in 1613, and plagues in 1604 and 1622. Days of Thanksgiving were called following the victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 and following the deliverance of Queen Anne in 1705. An unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in 1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes Day.[3]
In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly, but not universally, traced to a sparsely documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. Pilgrims and Puritans who began emigrating from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. Several days of Thanksgiving were held in early New England history that have been identified as the "First Thanksgiving", including Pilgrim holidays in Plymouth in 1621 and 1623, and a Puritan holiday in Boston in 1631.[8][9] According to historian Jeremy Bangs, director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, the Pilgrims may have been influenced by watching the annual services of Thanksgiving for the relief of the siege of Leiden in 1574, while they were staying in Leiden.[10] Now called Oktober Feest, Leiden's autumn thanksgiving celebration in 1617 was the occasion for sectarian disturbance that appears to have accelerated the pilgrims plans to emigrate to America.[11] In later years, religious thanksgiving services were declared by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford, who planned the colony's thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623.[12][13][14] The practice of holding an annual harvest festival did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.[15]
Thanksgiving proclamations were made mostly by church leaders in New England up until 1682, and then by both state and church leaders until after the American Revolution. During the revolutionary period, political influences affected the issuance of Thanksgiving proclamations. Various proclamations were made by royal governors, John Hancock, General George Washington, and the Continental Congress,[16] each giving thanks to God for events favorable to their causes.[17] As President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide thanksgiving celebration in America marking November 26, 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God".[18]
fear my cuteness.
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada and the United States as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.
Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among almost all religions after harvests and at other times.[1] The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the modern Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated.[1][2]
In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VIII and in reaction to the large number of religious holidays on the Catholic calendar. Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work and sometimes pay for expensive celebrations. The 1536 reforms reduced the number of Church holidays to 27, but some Puritans wished to completely eliminate all Church holidays, including Christmas and Easter. The holidays were to be replaced by specially called Days of Fasting or Days of Thanksgiving, in response to events that the Puritans viewed as acts of special providence. Unexpected disasters or threats of judgement from on high called for Days of Fasting. Special blessings, viewed as coming from God, called for Days of Thanksgiving. For example, Days of Fasting were called on account of drought in 1611, floods in 1613, and plagues in 1604 and 1622. Days of Thanksgiving were called following the victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 and following the deliverance of Queen Anne in 1705. An unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in 1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes Day.[3]
In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly, but not universally, traced to a sparsely documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. Pilgrims and Puritans who began emigrating from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. Several days of Thanksgiving were held in early New England history that have been identified as the "First Thanksgiving", including Pilgrim holidays in Plymouth in 1621 and 1623, and a Puritan holiday in Boston in 1631.[8][9] According to historian Jeremy Bangs, director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, the Pilgrims may have been influenced by watching the annual services of Thanksgiving for the relief of the siege of Leiden in 1574, while they were staying in Leiden.[10] Now called Oktober Feest, Leiden's autumn thanksgiving celebration in 1617 was the occasion for sectarian disturbance that appears to have accelerated the pilgrims plans to emigrate to America.[11] In later years, religious thanksgiving services were declared by civil leaders such as Governor Bradford, who planned the colony's thanksgiving celebration and fast in 1623.[12][13][14] The practice of holding an annual harvest festival did not become a regular affair in New England until the late 1660s.[15]
Thanksgiving proclamations were made mostly by church leaders in New England up until 1682, and then by both state and church leaders until after the American Revolution. During the revolutionary period, political influences affected the issuance of Thanksgiving proclamations. Various proclamations were made by royal governors, John Hancock, General George Washington, and the Continental Congress,[16] each giving thanks to God for events favorable to their causes.[17] As President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide thanksgiving celebration in America marking November 26, 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God".[18]
fear my cuteness.
Yeah, what MDC said (or quoted, I assume). It's a time to gather around as a family and eat the year's harvest so it's not too foreign of a concept from other cultural harvest dinners or annual celebrations. It's supposed to be about giving thanks for one's circumstances and fortune in life and has roots in historical dinners in the 17th century America when Native Americans famously helped share New World harvests with pilgrims from the Old World and actually got along with one another (to some extent, at least).
Turkey is a common motif to the holiday and is probably the most unique aspect of it (that and colonial relations and gorging oneself).
Does the UK have a similar annual feast? I'm assuming it would.
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Turkey is a common motif to the holiday and is probably the most unique aspect of it (that and colonial relations and gorging oneself).
Does the UK have a similar annual feast? I'm assuming it would.
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Wow this is filling up pretty fast
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"People can just pretend quotes are from a famous person, you know."-Albert Einstein while working on his Fizzcombobulating Spectaculator
"People can just pretend quotes are from a famous person, you know."-Albert Einstein while working on his Fizzcombobulating Spectaculator
Wikipedia?
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Chemistry is awesome!
Hi guys
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -MLK Jr.
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -MLK Jr.
MDC, Fathead said something about sending you a friend request. Maybe he might join if you let him in? Just letting you know in case you missed the request like I did previously.
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Nothing like Thanksgiving in the UK. We're not all that thankful.
Now I celebrate Thanksgiving because my wife is American and we live in the US. I like it.
Now I celebrate Thanksgiving because my wife is American and we live in the US. I like it.
LogicalRoger wrote:
Shogi - or Japanese chess - is better than regular chess. You should visit 81Dojo.com to play shogi.
MDC, Fathead said something about sending you a friend request. Maybe he might join if you let him in? Just letting you know in case you missed the request like I did previously.
He let me in. Thanks!
Shogi - or Japanese chess - is better than regular chess. You should visit 81Dojo.com to play shogi.
No problem. :] I have nothing against Jakob as a user, I just wish he'd moderate his games.
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Wait, only one day per round? If I'm boss, I may have to miss Sundays.
Shogi - or Japanese chess - is better than regular chess. You should visit 81Dojo.com to play shogi.
Shogi - or Japanese chess - is better than regular chess. You should visit 81Dojo.com to play shogi.
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maybe you shouldn't join then, you CAN'T miss. if the boss don't send a memo in time the game will be abandoned. even if you're employee, you'll be mandatory if you don't vote.
always multitasking 24/7
Wait, only one day per round? If I'm boss, I may have to miss Sundays.
maybe you shouldn't join then, you CAN'T miss. if the boss don't send a memo in time the game will be abandoned. even if you're employee, you'll be mandatory if you don't vote.
always multitasking 24/7
I didnt realize the short rounds either....
Not necessarily. The odds are Fathead won't be the boss, and if he misses a round, then at least he got to play a short while. Plus there's the time between the rounds. From what I've seen, most rounds start on one day and end on another - so he could catch the beginning or end, depending on when it was.
oh then that's great. hope the times do work out
always multitasking 24/7
always multitasking 24/7
Since today's Sunday, hopefully the game might start soon so that if FatHead is boss, he'll have a week. But if I remember correctly, doesn't the boss have like two days or something to send in the memo? Probably not.
I ONLY HAVE 9 RESPONSES TO THE FORM, PLEASE RESPOND BEFORE ROUND 1. THIS IS THE PSYCH QUESTION.
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I ONLY HAVE 9 RESPONSES TO THE FORM, PLEASE RESPOND BEFORE ROUND 1. THIS IS THE PSYCH QUESTION.
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One to go!
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Chemistry is awesome!
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Chemistry is awesome!
Wow this filled up really fast!
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maybe you should pm the ones who haven't responded to the psych?
always multitasking 24/7
always multitasking 24/7
You know what? Might as well join. It's been a while since I've played WTB, though, and I apologize in advance if I'm inactive. But sounds like it'll be fun!
Queen stays queen, adios!
Queen stays queen, adios!
I wrote a post this morning and... it's gone. Like it never existed...
Now I'm wondering if I forgot to hit the post button.
Oh well. Happy you are here hermy!
Now I'm wondering if I forgot to hit the post button.
Oh well. Happy you are here hermy!
I'm glad we're ready to start!
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -MLK Jr.
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -MLK Jr.
Yay!
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Don't mind me. Just twiddling my thumbs.
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Why didn't the Libertarian cross the road?
Hello, all. Can't wait to get started. I haven't played WTB in years.
Yay!
Chemistry is awesome!
Chemistry is awesome!
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