Thursday, November 23, 2006

13 things you don't know about Pilgrims

1. All the women have two middle names
2. The buckles on their shows are tin
3. They believed in ghosts
4. One of their descendants is Brian Williams from NBC
5. Men could only bathe at night
6. They collected pine cones in hopes of one day inventing peanut butter and bird seed so they could make birdfeeders
7. They could only whistle by sucking in air not blowing out
8. They invented the hatchet, until them all axes were full size
9. The Canadian Pilgrims always felt second class, that's why they forced their Thanksgiving a month early.
10. This item was removed at the request of the National Pilgrim Association
11. The Pilgrams invented the word glacier
12. Jim Henson hated Pilgrams
13. Walla Walla Washington is named after an old Pilgram battle cry.

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