HAPPY THANKSGIVING

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suzyq

Happy Thanksgiving - enjoy the day with family and friends.

We have a lot to be thankful for.  Play and sing a happy tune :)

Bulldog

Quote from: suzyq on November 22, 2010, 02:28:09 PM
Happy Thanksgiving - enjoy the day with family and friends.

We have a lot to be thankful for.  Play and sing a happy tune :)

It's only Monday.  Some real bad stuff could happen between today and Thursday (and it did).  Still, I've bought a 19 pound turkey to be ready for the festivities.

DavidW

I enjoy eating a big meal, but it's crazy how blown out of proportion this holiday has become.  People take up to a week off, and some of them are setting themselves up for the shopping orgy known as Black Friday.

karlhenning

Quote from: DavidW on November 22, 2010, 03:55:06 PM
. . . and some of them are setting themselves up for the shopping orgy known as Black Friday.

Which is good for the economy : )

You know whence the name Black Friday?  Retail operates at a net loss for the year's blaance sheet, through most of the year; but the heavy shopping on the Friday following Thanksgiving is the occasion which takes their bottom line for the year out of the red (a loss) into the black (net gain).

MN Dave


DavidW

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 23, 2010, 03:35:32 AM
Which is good for the economy : )

You know whence the name Black Friday?  Retail operates at a net loss for the year's blaance sheet, through most of the year; but the heavy shopping on the Friday following Thanksgiving is the occasion which takes their bottom line for the year out of the red (a loss) into the black (net gain).

Yes Karl I know.  But... HUMBUG!  I hate the Christmas shopping season.  The gifts my family give each other are modest... you know like a novel, or a dvd, slippers etc with the important thing is just being home.  The madness that consumes everyone else leaves me cold.

karlhenning

Quote from: DavidW on November 23, 2010, 06:18:56 AM
Yes Karl I know.  But... HUMBUG!  I hate the Christmas shopping season.  The gifts my family give each other are modest... you know like a novel, or a dvd, slippers etc with the important thing is just being home.  The madness that consumes everyone else leaves me cold.

Hearty agreement!

One of the wonderful touches in Gilliam's Brazil is a parade of people holding the banner, Consumers for Christ!

DavidW

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 23, 2010, 06:35:22 AM
Hearty agreement!

One of the wonderful touches in Gilliam's Brazil is a parade of people holding the banner, Consumers for Christ!

haha yeah I love Brazil! ;D

drogulus

Quote from: DavidW on November 23, 2010, 06:18:56 AM
Yes Karl I know.  But... HUMBUG!  I hate the Christmas shopping season.  The gifts my family give each other are modest... you know like a novel, or a dvd, slippers etc with the important thing is just being home.  The madness that consumes everyone else leaves me cold.

     If holidays had to have a rational basis we wouldn't have them. That's what makes them holi.

     I like Thanksgiving, and shopping, too. Combining them makes it more fun, though I try to avoid the worst of the crowds.

     
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david johnson

a blessed thanksgiving to you all  :)

dj

Todd

Indeed.  A happy Thanksgiving to all.

The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

karlhenning

Well, and we've just been given a lovely pecan pie.

Bogey

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Brahmsian

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on November 24, 2010, 06:48:20 AM
Well, and we've just been given a lovely pecan pie.

Ooh, one of my favorites, Karl. 

drogulus

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     How odd. My GF made a chocolate pecan pie last night, which was inspired by the Unitarian pies we enjoy on Town Day here in Arlington. I don't notice anything anti-metaphysical about these pies, to be sure, since nothing appears to be missing, but I guess that's anti-metaphysical enough. The nothing that's not missing isn't there. So score one for the Unitarian ladies.

     We'll take the nondogmatic pie down to Connecticut for a visit with my GFs old school friend, a visit we make every Thanksgiving. The friend and her family constitute a coven of Polish Protestants. Everybody has a schtick, or so it seems.
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Daverz

Quote from: drogulus on November 24, 2010, 12:21:17 PM
     How odd. My GF made a chocolate pecan pie last, which was inspired by the Unitarian pies

Made only with 100% free-range Unitarians.

Daverz

Quote from: DavidW on November 22, 2010, 03:55:06 PM
I enjoy eating a big meal, but it's crazy how blown out of proportion this holiday has become.  People take up to a week off, and some of them are setting themselves up for the shopping orgy known as Black Friday.

It's not as bad as Christmas, when the whole country seems to shut down between December 23rd and January 2nd and nothing can get done.

Now I have to go brush up on my Scrabble game for the after-Thanksgiving-dinner tournament...


Szykneij

Quote from: Daverz on November 24, 2010, 02:11:30 PM
Now I have to go brush up on my Scrabble game for the after-Thanksgiving-dinner tournament...

Quartzy!
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

drogulus

Quote from: Daverz on November 24, 2010, 02:05:52 PM
Made only with 100% free-range Unitarians.

     Any antitrinitarian will do in a pinch. Use baking chocolate as they tend to be sweet.
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