we don't really hand out presents on Thanksgiving. I know that F.D.R. (America's greatest president EVER) specifically set Thanksgiving to fall on the fourth Thursday of the month without exception (it used to come on the *last* Thursday of the month, and occassionally there are 5 Thursdays in November) to stimulate shopping slightly earlier.... so maybe it's not quite Christmas, but a nessessary pre-requisite to it?

either way i just think of it as a day for eating a lot of food at someone else's house.

by the way: i can't spell!