
Paging Donner party of 6… your table is ready.ĭiscoveries: New Donner Visitors Center a feast for history lovers Micah paging Donner Party of 6.Donner party of 5.now 4 Justin Donner party, Donner, Party of 7, please report to front desk. Posted By Owen Morris on Thu, at 10:50 AMīetween global warming, bees’ dying and the year 2012 approaching, now seems the right time to broach the sensitive subject of cannibalism. The first is to give the name “Menaazh” for a party of three. Giving the name “Donner” is the second funniest restaurant shen I know. “Paging Donner, party of eight… Donner, party of seven… Donner, party of six.” Historians have described the episode as one of the most bizarre and spectacular tragedies in Californian history and western-US migration. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive.
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Delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Reed who set out for California in a wagon train. The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner-Reed Party) was a group of American pioneers led by George Donner and James F.
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Comedy is often said to be “tragedy plus time,” and that applies to the Donner Party-a tragedy that occurred over 150 years ago. “Paging Donner, party of eight… Donner, party of seven… Donner, party of six.” was cited in print in 2005.

“Paging Donner party of eight.Paging Donner party of seven.Paging Donner party of six.” When a party reserves a table at a restaurant-and especially if someone from that party is named Donner-a joke announcement is: Mistakes and storm conditions caused the deaths of many, leading to cannibalism so that some could survive.

The Donner Party is a tragic story of western United States migration in 1846-47.
