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| Thanksgiving -- a harvest festival, supposedly in honor of the first harvest had by the Pilgrim settlers in America with the native peoples. | |
| pilgrim -- name given to the settlers who left England in the 1600s in search of religious freedom in America | |
| Sally Struthers -- American television situation comedy star and spokeswoman for such adverts as Christian Children's Fund and ICS, a technical training insititute. Credits include 70s sitcom, "All in the Family". | Sally Struthers |
| canned food drive -- this is a tradition at Thanksgiving in America. | |
| Engelbert Humperdink -- 70s soft swing singer, still performing around the world. And no, that's not his real name. | Engelbert Humperdink |
| Mayor's gestures about geneticist -- these are all hand gestures for American expressions about being crazy: Her first gesture refers to being "screwed in the head", the second is "cuckoo" (which has an entirely different meaning in England), the donkey is probably "jackass", which means essentially a crazy moron. | |
| starvin' marvin -- reference to a chain of convenience stores in the midwestern states of America. | |
| Red Cross -- International foundation/charity for helping people in need | International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies |
| Principal Victoria -- a swap of Victoria Principal, 70s television star, credits include "Dallas". | Victoria Principal fan pagecrap html |
| Vanessa Redgrave -- British television and award-winning movie star. | Vanessa Redgrave siteCan't find pictures! |
| cash grab -- a game show type gag where contestants are put in tanks and fans blow money around them. They are allowed to keep whatever they can grab. | |
| Chef painted blue and letter-boxed format -- reference to Mel Gibson's film, Braveheart. | Braveheart |
| MacGyver -- television character on the show of the same name who could get out of any situation by engineering some kind of amazing apparatus to escape, usually with a Swiss Army knife. | MacGyver Homepage |