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11/25/2010

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone: Don’t be a Turkey

Filed under: General — Aaron Worthing @ 2:14 pm



[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here.]

Personally you are not likely to see me blog much today.  I can’t speak for Patterico, but between the fact I am fighting a cold and its frickin’ Thanksgiving, I doubt I will blog very much.  That will probably change tomorrow, after I am done dealing with black Friday.

So take some time, unplug, enjoy some football and fall into a turkey-induced coma and generally enjoy your family.

And for the love of God, let’s not talk about politics.  Like via email someone sent me where one of the parties had a guide on how to argue with another person in a different party on Thanksgiving.  I won’t link to it, because even to talk about which party was putting this stupid thing out seemed a little partisan.  And bluntly I have seen both liberals and conservatives do this, bring up cheap shot politics into what should be time of hearth and family and all that good stuff.  Thanksgiving was first made a national holiday during Lincoln’s Presidency to unify a literally divided nation. Let’s try not to be even figuratively divided today.

And if someone does bring up politics at the family table, just say, “let’s leave politics out of it and enjoy family.”  And be satisfied that he or she actually harmed their cause by acting like a tool.

And of course, be fully sensitive to the diversity of dietary rules, including meatatarians like myself.  (Watch the video–it is funny.)

Personally when I tell everyone what I am thankful for, I will include British humor.

[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]

19 Responses to “Happy Thanksgiving Everyone: Don’t be a Turkey”

  1. Best wishes to all, even the lying nozzles of douche.

    JD (dc90b5)

  2. it was MoveOn.org…. i can p[ost it if anyone is interested… 8)

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  3. Happy gobble gobble to you all.

    As a person who has to get up at 3AM this coming morning to go to work at a department store, I will make the following observations about Black Friday:

    1) the best time to shop this weekend will be Saturday morning. Very little crowds, and the sales will be about the same. You will miss the extra special promotions featured for early Friday morning, of course. But that means you will also miss the mobs of idiots who run in early Friday morning to get those extra special promotions, or have camped out since this morning to be the first dozen in line. And I do mean they are idiots. Last year, our store unlocked the door at 4:03 AM instead of the official time of 4:00 AM. Because of this delay, we did not (thank God) have a stampede, but we did have two fights break out among the people waiting at the door because they couldn’t stand the thought of waiting any longer to start shopping. SRLSY.

    2)The best time to go shopping from Saturday until after Christmas is in the first hour or two that the store is open, if you can arrange to shop that early. No crowds.

    3)Contrary to what the MSM says every year, stores do not normally offer bigger discounts just before Christmas as compared to Thanksgiving weekend or early December. You are unlikely to find a better deal for an item if you wait until closer to Christmas. You are, on the other hand, likely to find that the item you want is out of stock and not available to order because you waited. If for budgeting or other reasons you need to delay gift buying until later in December, have alternate items in mind. And if you want really good deals, and are willing to risk the item being sold out before Christmas, wait until the after Christmas sales–January is best, because that’s the normal clearance time for almost every store.

    And everyone enjoy the leftovers.

    kishnevi (1b86f1)

  4. the only thing our household is buying this holiday season is food and ammunition.

    maybe if one of us was w*rking, we might expand the list, but since there is no way the local economy in CA is going to get better now that the morons are in complete control….

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  5. Happy Thanksgiving, all!

    carlitos (481eaf)

  6. The Aggies win!

    Ag80 (e828a4)

  7. Ag80,

    I left my congratulations on a different thread.

    DRJ (d43dcd)

  8. DRJ:

    I didn’t want to get off-topic in the other thread, but thanks.

    Mack Brown is a great coach. Sips have a lot to look forward to.

    I’ve had my doubts about Sherman, but winning is nice.

    We beat the sips. Varsity’s horns are sawed off in 2010. It’s a Happy Thanksgiving.

    And I hope everyone who reads or posts here has a great holiday season.

    Ag80 (e828a4)

  9. Happy Thanksgiving! Where is the thread about Tom Delay? I couldn’t find it. Thanks!

    Chris Hooten (492ae2)

  10. Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving; mine was absolutely wonderful. I’m alive, and almost wasn’t.

    I’m going to get a bit preachy: pay attention when you’re driving. I totaled our car two weeks ago yesterday. First thing I said to the cop, still shaking at the wheel, was “If I’d been on the brakes a tenth of a second faster, he’d have missed me completely.” To which he replied “F… that! If you’d been a hundredth of a second slower, you’d be dead.” Too true.

    Thank you, Lord, Subaru Forester, Nokian Tires, and the Highway Patrol Evasive Driving class I had in the 60s. All reflex, it was over before I knew what I was doing with the car. I saw the pickup coming, hit the brakes to the floor, wheel hard left, relax, flop like a WHAM! drunk.

    Watching the other guy’s air bag unfold (mine didn’t, I’d turned the T-bone into bad side swipe and was hit from behind) was fascinating. The plastic lid flew away like a butterfly, and then the bag slowly unfolded, first this way, then that, then the first, and then it oh so slowly inflated, puff, puff, like someone blowing up a balloon, puff, puff, and the other driver just kind of laid his head down on it. I figure the time expansion must have been 50 or a 100 to one.

    You can have a very long conversation at that rate with God, and I did.

    I’ve got a concussion from hitting my head on the head rest, need physical therapy for my neck. I’m going to be fine. I hope he is, too.

    Pay attention, the life you save may be your own.

    htom (412a17)

  11. Glad that you are OK. Good preach.

    Chris Hooten (492ae2)

  12. A meal without meat is like a bicycle without wheels – useless as anything other than a paper-weight.

    And htom – I’ve often wished I could make that time expansion effect “stick” for a couple hours. Imagine your productivity in a thinking type job. Then I realise I’d probably go insane because the real world was not changing fast enough to keep me interested. {o.o}

    kishnevi – you mean you actually shop in brick and mortar stores for things other than food? {^_-}

    {^_-} Happy Thanksgiving!

    jdow (98e9d7)

  13. as i always say, food has four feet.

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  14. I watched about four episodes of Blackadderyesterday – for about the 1,000 time. Never gets old for me, go figure.

    Dmac (498ece)

  15. Isn’t it cute how desperate the leftists are to talk about DeLay? Their faux outrage is so contrived that it is beyond laughable, and your BUNNIES! effort is rather transparent and very pathetic.

    JD (0d2ffc)

  16. Hope everyone had a great holiday. htom glad you are ok.

    Eagles 34

    Bears 17

    BT (74cbec)

  17. Most Republicans eat meat. Most Republicans are fat.

    Big man, Pig man,
    ha ha charade you are…

    (Roger Waters)

    ajb (44e146)

  18. ajb

    We’re sorry you feel compelled to stop by and act rude. Hope your frame of mind gets better. If you stop back, maybe you should read post #11 and reflect a little.

    MD in Philly (cac12c)


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