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A Happy Fucking Frank Haskins Thanksgiving
by
Frank Haskins
Thanksgiving is a time for expressing gratitude. This
Thanksgiving season, I'm grateful that I didn't have
to endure the hardships that the Pilgrims had to deal
with. Come to think of it, the Pilgrims had it a lot
better than I do. Life as a Pilgrim would have been a
lot easier than the daily poop-pounding of a life that
I live 24/7.
However, I can count my blessings that my life today
is better than the life of *one* of the Pilgrims - my
great-great-great-great grandfather, Francis Haskins.
In honor of the holiday, I'd like to share with you a
few excerpts from his diary:
September 16, 1620
Hark, what a shytty daye, even for a Puritan. I was
abruptly awoken this morn by my teenage son's loude
musick. From his lute, his fingers brought forth one of those cursed
madrigals. These madrigals are the devil's musick, I tell ye. Amid the
comotion, by accident I stepped into my own chamber pot. I then spied my
teenage daughter wearing a dress with buttons on it, looking like a common
harlot.
Then, at my jobbe where I work as a scribe, I discovered
that the man who employeth me hath replaced me
with a newfangled printing press. They are nothing
more than a passing fadde, I tell thou. Then I learnt my
soon-to-be-ex-wyfe was plotting to flee our abode keep company with the
Duke of Canterbury. She told me that she was now having the best
abstinence of her life.
At the harbour, a vessel called The Mayflower sails
today for Amerika. Perhaps a better lyfe is to be had
there, where a man can live without getting fycked
over.
December 21, 1620
After three miserable monthes, we have come ashore at
Plimouth in Massachusettes. I know not if
this place is any better, but at least in Englande, I
was not standing in snowe as deepe as my nutsacke.
This afternoon, I made a deal with some native Indians
to purchase a vast parcel of lande. I paid the naive
fools only about $24 worthe of trinkets for the
lande, believing I had won a bargain. Later in the
daye, I discovered that the savages had sold the same
lande to another Pilgrim this very morn.
November 23, 1621
After surviving our firste year in this new place, we
decided to celebrate with a sumptuous feaste and to
invite our Indian friends as our guests. Posting bail to get my assehole
teenage son out of the stocks delayed my arrival to the meal, which had
already begun. The only foode left was the turkey's rump and a few
brussels sprouts. The turkey rump rendered my eyelids heavy, and after a
long nap, I discovered that those red savages had taken my purse. Those
bastardes packed my "colon-copia" pretty goode, if thou takest my meaning.
(Transcribed by Chuck Sawyer)
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