Thanksgiving
The chat's most-cited Thursday holiday and the basis of the **annual Thanksgiving fantasy-football wager**, first proposed by [[Kyle Derrick]] on **2020-11-25** and recurring in some form every subsequent autumn. **42 corpus mentions** spanning **2020-11-06 → 2025-12-02**, with stable November cadence.
Thanksgiving
The chat's most-cited Thursday holiday and the basis of the annual Thanksgiving fantasy-football wager, first proposed by Kyle Derrick on 2020-11-25 and recurring in some form every subsequent autumn. 42 corpus mentions spanning 2020-11-06 → 2025-12-02, with stable November cadence.
Thanksgiving in the Newfound Glory Hole is, by message volume, the chat's principal autumn observance after 4/20 and the cluster of NFL openers. The corpus contains 42 distinct Thanksgiving mentions across all six chat years, with messages concentrated in the November-25 → December-2 window.
The Thanksgiving fantasy wager
The chat's most institutionally durable Thanksgiving-related practice is the annual Thanksgiving fantasy-football wager, first proposed by Kyle Derrick on 2020-11-25:
"Dan, would you be interested in a Thanksgiving fantasy football wager?" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-11-25
Kyle continues the same day with detailed scouting:
"Marvin Jones has a penchant for Thanksgiving day games" "Because he has never eclipsed 30 points on thanksgiving" "Not on thanksgiving" — Kyle Derrick, 2020-11-25
The wager has, in some form, recurred every subsequent fantasy season; see Fantasy football for the broader context.
"Heathers family thinks it's weird that I like a ham on thanksgiving"
Evan Bbbender's 2020-11-25 post is the chat's most-quoted Thanksgiving-as-marital-friction single message:
"Heathers family thinks it's weird they I like a ham on thanksgiving" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-11-25
The construction — Heather's family disapproves of a Bender Thanksgiving ham — is the corpus's earliest documented record of in-laws-vs-Thanksgiving-cuisine friction and is the encyclopedia's standard reference for the chat's recurring Heather's family sub-thread (see Heather (disambiguation)).
"Did you gestate that baby just to eat it on thanksgiving"
Evan Bbbender's 2020-11-27 post — Thanksgiving Day 2020, three weeks after Bruce's birth — is the chat's most-quoted Thanksgiving-baby joke:
"Did you gestate that baby just to eat it on thanksgiving" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-11-27
The line is the corpus's only documented Thanksgiving-and-newborn juxtaposition and is preserved as the chat's preferred form of Thanksgiving congratulations on a recent birth.
"Happy Thanksgiving" stable form
By 2025 the chat has settled on a stable Happy Thanksgiving register:
"Happy Thanksgiving todos" — Evan Bbbender, 2025-11-27
"Happy Thanksgiving fellas" — Cullen Conway, 2025-11-27
Matt supplies the chat's most-quoted Thanksgiving-aftermath post the next day:
"Yesterday was Thanksgiving he probably had a heart attack and died" — Matt, 2025-11-28
The line — preserved as Matt's Thanksgiving + heart-attack hypothesis — closes the chat's 2025 Thanksgiving cycle and is in the same register as Evan Bbbender's 2025-11-28 "Anybody else edging a heart attack from overeating?" (see Edging).
Operation Snovid-19 Thanksgiving
The chat's most fully-articulated pre-Thanksgiving logistical thread is the November 2020 Operation Snovid-19 sequence (see SNOVID-19), in which Evan Bbbender coordinated chat-internal Thanksgiving plans against the dual constraints of snow and COVID-19. The operation's preferred summary is Evan's 2020-11-26 post:
"Who's ready to begin preparations for operation snovid-19?" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-11-26
The campaign — coordinated across roughly five days of pre-holiday messages — is the chat's only documented case of a Thanksgiving plan receiving its own code name.