012.I Make Ruffles Look GOOD
Posted by holdourdominion on October 10, 2009
Screw you America, we have our own Thanksgiving thanks to Martin Frobisher!
While today Thanksgiving in Canada means having a day off to tolerate your family members, when Frobisher held the first formal “thanksgiving” ceremony in 1578 it was more of a “Thank god we didn’t all die in that quest for the Northwest Passage” ceremony. And I think we should have more like that! We should be happier that we don’t all die of things because often we all do stupid things. Darwin would be doing this all day long if he were alive today maybe.
Of course, Aboriginal groups in Canada were having ceremonies to celebrate the crops long before Frobisher, but in terms of Canadian history we tend to see things start when the white dudes do it first in the country.
According to a Wikipedia article on Frobisher, he was a privateer/pirate. Sweet mama pajama! I don’t know what it means, but I imagine that it made his frilly collar doubly badass! No idea to what extent it is true though.
And yes Martin Frobisher, those pants do make your butt look gigantic.
