tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10874687852403676872024-03-13T05:48:06.288-07:00Sensible Jones sees the world differently.Sensible Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232454898689729754noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1087468785240367687.post-61900023299334176962011-11-24T08:14:00.000-08:002011-11-24T13:22:16.322-08:00Thanks Giving, you were great!!!<u mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">The Place:-</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Plymouth, UK.</span><br />
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<u mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">The Date:-</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">July.</span><br />
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<u mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">The Time:-</u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">16:20 or Twenty Past Four in the Afternoon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">So, at 4.20 in July in the year 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers set sail in the Mayflower for the New World across the Atlantic.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">It wasn't actually a 'New World' as such, more like 'a Different Country/Continent'.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">In the previous few years they had left 'Dear Old Blighty' and gone to live in Holland, (where no doubt they'd been appalled at the number of Australian backpackers getting drunk, shagging Hookers and scoring Weed), so they had been in discussion with a Bloke about securing Passage across the Ocean. He had agreed and they were to meet him in Plymouth, UK and board his Ship called the Mayflower.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">They arrived in Plymouth, UK.</span><br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/PlymouthHoe.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/PlymouthHoe.jpg" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;" /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">Actual Plymouth UK today.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">They enjoyed a pleasant afternoon by the Sea, drinking Fizzy Drinks and eating Ice Cream before they boarded their Ship.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">The time came and they Weighed the Anchor. It was 184lb's. Then they Weyed Anchor and set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower.</span><br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/mayflower.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/mayflower.jpg" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;" /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">Actual Mayflower today.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Sensible Jone's Ancestors were so late for this that they set off in the Julyflower and hoped to catch them up!</span><br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/Carnival009.jpg" mce_style="width: 471px; height: 353px;" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/Carnival009.jpg" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; height: 353px; text-align: center; width: 471px;" /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">Actual Julyflower in 1620.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Unfortunately they got about 30 miles out to Sea and ran out of Petrol and had to Row all the way back to Plymouth, UK.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Meanwhile the Mayflower was forging ahead across the Atlantic and would soon be running aground in the New World.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Aside from a Run-in with some Pirates they had a completely boring Cruise.</span><br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/PirateJones.gif" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/PirateJones.gif" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;" /><br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/penguinpirates.gif" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/penguinpirates.gif" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;" /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">Actual Penguin Pirates yesterday.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">It was now November and the New World was sighted off the Starboard Bow (whatever the fuck that means), and they set foot in the New World at 'Plymouth Rock'!!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">What a fucking coincidence, huh??</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">What's the chances of that?? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Leaving England and then travelling 3000 miles to an unknown place and the place where you land having the same name as the place you started from???</span><br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/PilgrimFathers.jpg" mce_style="width: 487px; height: 350px;" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/PilgrimFathers.jpg" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; height: 350px; text-align: center; width: 487px;" /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;">Actual people may vary due to this being a painting.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Yet another fortuitous coincidence was that of there being a Portrait Painter sat on the very Beach where they landed!!<br />
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After having had their Portrait's painted the New Arrivals did what all good English Tourists do and carved a piece of Graffiti into the nearest thing!!<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/9abe.jpg" mce_style="width: 437px; height: 327px;" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/9abe.jpg" style="height: 327px; width: 437px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Actual graffiti carved by actual English Tourist.</span><br />
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Being British, they soon settled into a routine and it wasn't long before they'd built a Football Stadium, 3 Pubs and a Fish 'n' Chip Shop.<br />
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Not long after that, the 'Locals' came to have a look at their new 'Uninvited Guests'!<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/Indians-1.jpg" mce_style="width: 472px; height: 285px;" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/Indians-1.jpg" style="height: 285px; width: 472px;" /> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Actual 'Locals' may vary due to these being Waxworks.<br />
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It was at about this time that Sensible Jone's ancestor had finished swimming across the Atlantic, after having fallen out of the Julyflower and starting to swim off in the wrong direction.<br />
He was soon the Focus of interest for some of the 'Locals'!!!<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI018.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI018.jpg" /><img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI017.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI017.jpg" /><br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI019.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI019.jpg" /><img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI016.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI016.jpg" /><img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI021.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/ACI021.jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Actual interested Locals yesterday.</span><br />
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After having had a great first Season's Football the new Inhabitants decided to have a lavish celebratory Dinner and invited all the 'Locals' and even Sensible Jone's Ancestor!!!<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/indians.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/indians.jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Actual Sensible Jones' Ancestor still in his Formal Football Kit.</span><br />
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The Womenfolk set out Tables and Chairs for everyone!!!<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/th20071121-first-thanksgiving.png" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/th20071121-first-thanksgiving.png" /><br />
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Then they set about the task of preparing such a huge, sumptuous Feast!!!<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/merrick_thanksgiving_day_dinner_can.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/merrick_thanksgiving_day_dinner_can.jpg" /><br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/turkey.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/turkey.jpg" /><br />
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And that is the story of how my Ancestor invented Thanksgiving!!<br />
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This has been a Giving Thanks kind of Sensible Service Announcement.<br />
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I thank you.<br />
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PS.<br />
Please note that nowhere in this Blog was anyone referred to as an 'Indian' as we all know that 'Indians' actually evolved in 'India'!<br />
In fact, there is only one person from the New World that could have been called 'Indian' and that was 'Indian Larry', well known Bike Builder!!!<br />
RIP.<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/indianlarrybike.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/indianlarrybike.jpg" /><br />
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Also, I would just like to point out the difference of going into a Shop and asking for an 'Indian' over there and over here.<br />
Over there in the New World you more than likely, upon asking for an 'Indian', to be served one of these:-<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/IMG_0065.jpg" mce_style="width: 362px; height: 238px;" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/IMG_0065.jpg" style="height: 238px; width: 362px;" /><br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/DSCN0054.jpg" mce_style="width: 485px; height: 363px;" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/DSCN0054.jpg" style="height: 363px; width: 485px;" /><br />
Or perhaps one of these:-<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/DSCN1443.jpg" mce_style="width: 453px; height: 339px;" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/DSCN1443.jpg" style="height: 339px; width: 453px;" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Please don't ask me to explain the difference!!!)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over here I would more than likely receive something like this:-<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/DSC00936.jpg" mce_style="width: 447px; height: 335px;" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/DSC00936.jpg" style="height: 335px; width: 447px;" /><br />
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So, on that Nutritional Note I shall wish you all a 'Happy Get Stuffed by eating too much Day'!!!<br />
<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/leg2-5.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/leg2-5.jpg" /><br />
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<img mce_src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/9ac102b3d410ca47a34ebcb6138c280a_rs.jpg" src="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn312/sensiblejone5/Thanksgiving%2008/9ac102b3d410ca47a34ebcb6138c280a_rs.jpg" /></span></span></span></span></span></span>Sensible Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232454898689729754noreply@blogger.com0