Happy Turkey Day, but not if you are a turkey

[oldr_n_wsr]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my USA friends, and a thank you to all my non-USA friends for being there for me this year. Thanksgiving is tomorrow for us in the USA but the giving spirit and the thanks to those who give is a year/lifelong thing.

I have had some ups and downs in these past couple of years. Many you have read about here, some no one will ever read about and only my sponsor has heard. But I want to say thank you to all here for your support and input. Even though this is an anonamous forum, I do feel connected to all here and think (would like to believe) that when the shit hits the fan, they all will rally to help. I know I will.

Tomorrow I go off in the morning to play in the Turkey Bowl. We have been playing this game on Thanksgiving morning annually since 1972. I only missed one in all those years, that was in 1985 the year my son was born. He was about 2 months old and we has 8 inches of snow fall the night before and my wife was afraid to drive to her parents house alone. (I was to go play then meet up at her parents house). So I ended up not going and doing my "husbandly" duties.

Now many of our sons play and us oldr_n_wsr_dads can't run as fast and last as long and get hurt much to easily. But it's plenty of fun and good to see the high school buddies again.

So Happy Thanksgiving to all throughout the world who I interact with here. Stay safe, love and stay loved.

[Long Run]

Have a great Thanksgiving, oldr and everyone else. And don't get injured playing your turkey bowl . . .

[Lord Jim]

We were going to do Thanksgiving over at one of Lady Kelly's cousins house in Antioch, but Little Sister had some surgery (nothing super invasive, but enough to make her feel like crap) and doesn't feel up to heading over there, so we're doing it at her house....

That may not sound logical, (it certainly didn't to me) but since she lives down The Peninsula, her place is more centrally located than ours is....

However, since she is on the mend, we (and Kelly's cousin and her family) are doing all the work....

I don't mind all the shopping and cooking and preparation, but it means I'm going to have to work at close quarters with my Brother-In-law, (who regular readers of this space will know I refer to as Roman Craig....If you've ever seen the the flick, The Great Outdoors, you'll know what I'm talking about...) which I am not thrilled about...

(He's almost as much of a bragartly gas bag as a certain person on this board, who in the spirit of the holiday I shall not mention by name...)

[rubato]

PETA is displaying their remarkably accurate ear for what message will get the most notice and telling Obama to "kill kill kill" the turkeys rather than the customary pardon.

Didna work but they do know how to get in the headlines ... gotta give them props for that.

yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

Have a great thanksgiving all my American friends, may the turkey fairy bring you extra giblets.

[dales]

We were going to do Thanksgiving over at one of Lady's Kelly's cousins house in Antioch....

Drop in and say hello to Andrew and myself.

(i'll be in pleasanton @ my daughter's home)

[Crackpot]

I got stuck hosting against my will Really no one asked me or even let me know it was on the table but my wife mentioned the possibility of having it here with my mom and next thing you know everyone is coming here.

[Lord Jim]

Really no one asked me or even let me know

Oh come on CP....

You've been married long enough to be used to that by now....

[Beer Sponge]

Thanksgiving is so last month.

[Jarlaxle]

I'm at my mother's...Liz worked last night and wound up doing 350 miles to retrieve a van, so she didn't get off work until 3am. She'll be here around noon...she's on call tonight, so she'll be driving a wrecker down.

[Crackpot]

Really no one asked me or even let me know

Oh come on CP....

You've been married long enough to be used to that by now....

The thing is My wife didn't know my mom that well. It's just been recently that MY wife has been realizing why my Brother and I handle my mom like we do.

[Roo]

Who said Turkeys are dum?

[Gob]

POPE Benedict XVI has debunked the myth that baby Jesus’s first meal was turkey with all the trimmings.

The pope’s new book claims that a stable would have lacked basic cooking facilities as well as vital ingredients like stuffing mix.

Pope Benedict XVI said: “Mary would have been too exhausted from the birth to think about wrapping sausages in bacon. And they arrived late at the stable so there wasn’t much prep time.

“Men didn’t really cook back in the day so Joseph wouldn’t have helped. In fact he’d probably have been moaning, ‘Come on, we’ve got the wise men arriving at three, can’t you at least do some roast spuds and gravy.’

“Given the lack of facilities, the most Mary could have managed was jacket potatoes. Maybe the kings brought some salads or a trifle.

“Also Jesus was a baby, and babies don’t really like turkey. I expect it makes them puke. Chances are he just had milk.”

The pope’s book OMG: Snakes, Sodomy and Other Crazy Bible Stories also debunks the famous ‘loaves and fishes’ food myth.

Pope Benedict XVI said: “This year’s V Festival got 60,000 people in a day, and they fed them no problem without any miracles.

“But Jesus didn’t actually use fish, he wanted to keep costs down so he did a vegetarian dahl curry, which also would have kept for a couple of days if there was some left over.”

[Gob]

Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers.

The first president, George Washington, in 1783 said he preferred buying Indians' land rather than driving them off it because that was like driving "wild beasts" from the forest. He compared Indians to wolves, "both being beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape."

Thomas Jefferson -- president #3 and author of the Declaration of Independence, which refers to Indians as the "merciless Indian Savages" -- was known to romanticize Indians and their culture, but that didn't stop him in 1807 from writing to his secretary of war that in a coming conflict with certain tribes, "[W]e shall destroy all of them."

As the genocide was winding down in the early 20th century, Theodore Roosevelt (president #26) defended the expansion of whites across the continent as an inevitable process "due solely to the power of the mighty civilized races which have not lost the fighting instinct, and which by their expansion are gradually bringing peace into the red wastes where the barbarian peoples of the world hold sway."

Roosevelt also once said, "I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."

How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis? Here's how "respectable" politicians, pundits, and professors play the game: When invoking a grand and glorious aspect of our past, then history is all-important. We are told how crucial it is for people to know history, and there is much hand wringing about the younger generations' lack of knowledge about, and respect for, that history.


http://www.alternet.org/culture/no-thanks-thanksgiving

[Lord Jim]

Thank you Steve....

[Gob]

LOL!

[oldr_n_wsr]

Played in our Turkey Bowl XL (that would be the 40th) and survived. Although there are some aches and pains I am grateful there are no broken bones. My team won, not that it matters much, and my son caught the winning touchdown. I had a few catches, an interception and a QB sack. Then I took about 6 Advil and felt ok for the rest of the day.

[Gob]

Well done mate, life in the old dog yet eh?

[oldr_n_wsr]

Well done mate, life in the old dog yet eh?

I think I did better than my "mates" of the same age. But it bothers me I can't keep up, let alone compete with the young'ens. Although I was better at keeping up this year than last. Either they are getting older or my aging process is slowing down. Perhps not drinking and cutting back on smoking has paid off if only a little bit.