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11/24/2011

Open Thread: What Are You Thankful For?

Filed under: General — Aaron Worthing @ 10:29 am



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

Nothing complicated, just a thread to say happy Thanksgiving and offering you a chance to share what you are thankful for this year.

And at the very real risk of being called a kiss up, I will say that besides family and friends, and having a job in this rough economy, I am thankful to Patrick for letting me borrow his blog for well over a year now.  This continues to be one of the coolest experiences in my life, thanks in no small part to the commenters.

Well, besides the trolls and stalkers, that is.  But they are not nearly bad enough to harsh my buzz.

So have a good day, and try not to kill anyone when the stores open at midnight.  🙂

[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]

84 Responses to “Open Thread: What Are You Thankful For?”

  1. I am thankful for all those who hae sacrificed so I can be me, I wish everyone the happiness they need and deserve.

    God Bless those, especially here who have lost loved one’s recently.

    EricPWJohnson (2a58f7)

  2. beer.

    it is proof that G*d loves us and wants us to be happy. (and fat %-)

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  3. I’m thankful for God’s many blessings. There are too many to even count.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  4. This year, I am especially thankful for my amazing new assistance dog Cappy, and all the wonderful people that raise, train and place such magnificent furry helpmates.

    Sue (40062f)

  5. And there they were, a group of Patterico’s finest bloggers grouped around the table, past differences pushed aside as they gathered for the feast. They metaphorically stabbed Obama with their steely knives, but they just can’t — whoops! Hold everything; the choo-choo in me head momentarily derailed. Okay, back on track:

    So, after everyone politely laughed when JD said the baster looked like a “douchenozzle”, Mr Frey carved the bird while Mrs DRJ politely served. Nishi said grace, with nary a hint of irony, and then those assembled dug in . . . dug into each other, that is. 

    It began when feets, who may have downed one too-many glasses of N/A cider, said something under his breath about preferring a Thompson’s turkey to “that hoochie bird what’s spreading its legs and showing its giblets!” Eric, who for perhaps the first time in his adult life finally understood a reference, chimed in with, “Yeah, next thing you know it’s gonna raise taxes!”

    At this point Doh leapt to his feet and announced, “I – have had – enough – of you!” hurdling over Some chump and attempting to stab Eric in the eyes with his corn-on-the-cob holders. Luckily, after Stashiu threatened to put him into time-out Doh soon forgot about whatever had made him so mad, and slumped back in his chair whilst suspiciously eyeing the “green” beans. 

    Everyone returned to what they had been doing. Karl and Mark continued their lengthy conversation, while a surly nk sulked in the corner, challenging anyone that dared look his way to get in his face on a public sidewalk. Ehrenstein made eyes at Klompus, and soon saw the error of his ways. 

    At the grownup’s table, civility was maintained, with elissa and Chuck B, Gerald A and Ag80, SPQR and PatAZ, aphrael and no one you know, and especially EW1(SG) and the Philly MD all comporting themselves well. 

    Unfortunately, things were not so calm over at the “kids” table. Milhouse, narciso and 11B40 could only look on in abject horror as Dustin and Haiku fought over the wishbone. Beldar and carlitos and The Dana That Found This To Be In Very Poor Taste beat a hasty retreat as the Colonel what rhymes and the kernel what doesn’t threw down over which stem of the wishbone possessed more substance. Haiku’s stem was named Willard; Dustin’s stick was called Richard. 

    As the row-de-dow commenced, those spectators straining to see over Pat’s security fence — Sparticles and Hooten and imdw and tifosa and angeleno and Larry Reilly — began placing bets on the outcome. Pelto was asked to referee but declined, claiming it was far beneath his station to do so. The Emperor volunteered, but nobody was comfortable with any foreign influence in the process. Finally, Aaron assigned Sammy F to the task; Scott J and S Jester were chosen as linesmen. 

    After Sammy the ref had them shake hands and turn their shirts inside out the battle commenced. Haiku led off with a classic feint, making as if to move one way, then reversing course and approaching his opponent from a new angle. Dustin parried this attack with a strong initial thrust that soon faded when he forgot what his next move was supposed to be. 

    Aware of the commotion in the dining room, the host — sitting out on the lanai, sipping a tall cool one and regaling Bradley J with tales of his brush with almost greatness — did his best Homer Simpson: “yeah, but what are ya gonna do?”

    Eventually, the combatants wearied; each of them a little bloodied, nothing resolved. Everyone thanked their host, and all were invited to come back next year — even little Nishi, despite clear evidence that she had left a “deposit” in one of Pat’s houseplants.  

    And as they slowly filed out —  redc1c4 and IgotBupkis carrying an unconscious Doh, who had taken a swing at daleyrocks and hit himself in the nads instead — their host said to them, “Thank you one and all for once again reminding me what a great and special country this is, and how we all should be thankful for the privilege of living here.”

    God bless, everyone.

    [Dedicated to AD – RtR/OS!, just because]

    For Those Here Assembled (6f50d8)

  6. Can one really ever give enough thanks for their family? I think during difficult seasons when one is able to experience their family’s inexhaustible strength and support while simultaneously be reminded of how much love binds, it becomes all too clear that one really cannot give enough thanks, ever…

    Dana (4eca6e)

  7. For Those Here Assembled #5,

    That’s awesome.

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  8. I’m thankful we have a chance soon to replace our stupid useless dirty socialist anti-American president even if it’s with a loathsome needy twat like Mitt Romney.

    Also I am thankful for a new cupcakery coming to my zone and for having brand new white carpet in my new apartment what prevents me from getting a dog. Also I am thankful for my brother finding a job lickety split no problem after going to school to become a teacher person.

    Furthermore I am also thankful that Baby A is 100% perfectly happy and healthy and also that we all get to see Skyfall next year and that nobody I know was swept over the falls at Yosemite National Park.

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  9. Ehrenstein made eyes at Klompus, and soon saw the error of his ways.

    Lol! #5, priceless.

    Dana (4eca6e)

  10. oh my goodness that was epic, assembled person

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  11. happyfeet #8,

    Who is Baby A?

    DRJ (a83b8b)

  12. I have no idea, but Craig has one more chance before he totally sinks the franchise.

    narciso (ef1619)

  13. I cross-posted in the Sockpuppet thread, including this part which was accidentally deleted:
    Kman, feeling himself not worthy, sat tight, content to observe the proceedings from the safety of his perch, just outside the 100 yard order-of-protection boundary.

    For Those Here Assembled (6f50d8)

  14. baby A is my co-worker’s kid what was very very preemie and really is a little miracle he’s very awesome

    since I only have one co-worker really we’ve gotten to be very good friends so it was all very scary and worrisome but not anymore he’s scampering about like a ninja banshee

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  15. Never mind what I’m thankful for; unlike our president I know to Whom I’m thankful for it.

    Milhouse (f8511c)

  16. whaaa? the budget on the last bond was two hundred and thirty million freaking dollars and i got to see it for the same price as they wanted for Russell Brand’s Arthur, and that, my friend, is value

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  17. I have my own Thanksgiving post here. It is a reprint of my favorite post on the topic of not taking things for granted. It may be my favorite post I have ever written.

    Patterico (fa64b2)

  18. They spent 30 minute in Haiti, and almost as long in the Atacama desert, epic fail.

    narciso (ef1619)

  19. true enough I guess maybe the next movie will talk about how the United Nations caused a cholera outbreak what killed thousands and thousands

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  20. I’m thankful for my family, for my two daughters who are healthy and at home; it reminds me that there are other soldiers who are stationed around the world, some in some not so nice places, and who cannot be home for Thanksgiving.

    I’m thankful for my wife, a joy to be with, and who might have been working today; hospitals never close. When I hear the horror stories from the hospital, I’m thankful that our children are strong and healthy; some families aren’t so fortunate.

    I’m thankful for my job. Whenever I whine to myself — which is almost every day on the way to work — that I don’t want to go to work that day, I always remind myself that there are a lot of other men out there who wish that they had jobs to go to.

    I’m thankful that I’m an American; most people in this world weren’t born into wealthy and free democracies, and are living under tyranny and squalor.

    I’m thankful that Al Gore invented this internet thingy; I’d have a lot fewer friends without it.

    The thankful Dana (f68855)

  21. Gotta love the left and their hatred of anything republican.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  22. I am thankful I am not kmart.

    JD (14475a)

  23. I am thankful I have not dropped the turkey, yet.

    I am thankful I deep fried two of the suckers on a camp out a couple of weeks ago and did not ignite a forest fire.

    My luck seems to holding so far.

    I am thankful to “For Those Here Assembled” for the thoughtful comment at #5.

    I am thankful I am not nishi or tifosa, for which I thank my parents and misspent youth.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  24. I am thankful I’m not this guy:

    [O]ne store is making the wait a little more difficult this year by refusing to let people put up tents as they wait for the store to open its doors.

    One man who had been first in line outside the Roseville Best Buy told CBS13 that security took his tent away while he was gone, causing him to lose his place. He is now fourth in line and angry.

    Not only isn’t this something to ruin your Thanksgiving over (or a good way to spend it), but why does he expect his place in line to still be there if he isn’t?

    Kevin M (563f77)

  25. But, in the end I am thankful to be born in a country where liberty and civility are possible to find, most people are willing to live and let live, and wrong things can be changed for the better without bloodshed.

    Kevin M (563f77)

  26. I’m thankful their is freedom.

    I’m not thankful the left accuse us of being white supremacists for opposing Islam as if it is a race.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  27. The curious thing is Doh’s stream of consciousness
    is not that far removed from the Journolist’s impressions.

    narciso (ef1619)

  28. I am thankful that the Nast vile secproggie f@ckers like LaGreca, Hooten, Freidman, Kimberlin, and their ilks so readily expose their inner thuggish fascist. Intimidatn tactics are disgusting, but imdw tried that crap a long time ago. Almost forgot how buddy buddy imdw was with those vermin.

    JD (14475a)

  29. I am thankful that I am an American

    freedom costs (c4171d)

  30. I am thankful for not being helpless.

    Michael Ejercito (64388b)

  31. @#5 What a hoot! I especially enjoyed the business about the kids’ table and the adult table.

    Coincidently, at the Thanksgiving dinner table today our group which encompassed old friends, newish friends, and extended family (all adults), went around the room and told about when they had graduated from the kiddie table to the grown-up table–whether that was viewed as an over all good or a bad thing– and what it had meant to them at the time. The funniest story–and one I’d never heard before– was told by a friend whom I’ve known for years who comes from a very large family. She was a junior in college on that long ago Thanksgiving and had brought her new fiancé (now husband) to meet the family. For the first time ever she was seated at the formal adult table in the dining room, along with her guy (instead of at the kids table in the family room). She knew they all wanted to check him out and she also felt proud that she had finally arrived as an “adult” in their eyes.

    Forget that! The next year the fiancé was in the armed services and could not come to Thanksgiving dinner with her. And she found herself sitting back at the kids’ table while someone else’s beau got vetted in the dining room.

    elissa (263c16)

  32. I normally wouldn’t refer to a post elsewhere, but … I wrote a *long* post about this (1900 words), at http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2011/11/25/5722/1889.

    Peace be with you all on this holiday.

    aphrael (807c84)

  33. Huh?

    I never said anything racist against Islam today.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  34. Anyways Obama is using Thanksgiving to bash bush.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  35. Nice, aphrael.

    Milhouse (ea66e3)

  36. Yes I have said things I shouldn’t have………….I admit I’m wrong ok.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  37. Jeff Jacoby tweeted what he is thankful for.

    I give thanks for the US Army’s 3rd Cavalry, which on 6 May 1945 liberated the Nazi death camp at Ebensee, and the man who became my father.

    Michael Ejercito (64388b)

  38. DohBiden, narciso was saying that you are correct about the left.

    Icy (6f50d8)

  39. Since the day is not quite over, I’m thankful that my children were here today. They will be gone tomorrow because they’ve already grown beyond my reach.

    I’m thankful that my mother was here today. She will be gone before I’m ready. I’m thankful I had many great years with my dad before he passed. I love them both dearly.

    I’m thankful that I have two great brothers who can center my life.

    And I am extremely thankful that I married, quite simply, the greatest person in the world. I don’t say that because I love her.

    I say that because it’s true.

    Ag80 (ec45d6)

  40. Really narciso?

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  41. Yes.

    narciso (ef1619)

  42. Oh ok.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  43. Anyways how come the ecopeople never call out communist states for pollution?

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  44. Because the workers control the means of production.

    With no evil capitalist bosses to blame, magically the pollution levels become unnoticeable.

    Call it the “hockey stick up the a$$” effect.

    Icy (6f2ab8)

  45. Well china is the worlds heaviest polluter.

    Animalrightslefty (ef98f0)

  46. Eh hehehehe

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  47. Comment by For Those Here Assembled — 11/24/2011 @ 10:53 am

    Oh my goodness, that was great. *tips hat to FTHA*

    Thankful for the usual: faith, family, friends, fun. One of the venues of the latter, of course, being this site. Happy belated Thanksgiving all.

    no one you know (3e92e3)

  48. DohBiden wrote:

    Anyways Obama is using Thanksgiving to bash bush.

    Well, of course he is! There is no one to whom President Obama ought to be more thankful than President Bush. Would we have ever elected that empty a suit if President Bush hadn’t been so unpopular?

    The realistic Dana (3e4784)

  49. The left are twisting Mccarthys agenda to use against their iopponents.

    Obama2012 (ef98f0)

  50. Opponents*

    Damn sockpuppet.

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  51. Why do the left accuse the governor of florida of being a dumbass?

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  52. For Those Here Assembled,
    That was epic!

    Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (a18ddc)

  53. it would raise taxes and ya all know it…

    EricPWJohnson (2a58f7)

  54. WTF

    JD (14475a)

  55. Thank You, Brother Bradley!

    I Could Yet reveal my identity (6f2ab8)

  56. I never get to sit at the adults table in real life.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  57. SPQR, it was a made up story.

    And JD, Eric was just acknowledging that I was depicting him spewing his usual slurs against Palin. IOW, he gave me a “thumbs up” for my accurate portrayal.

    I Could Yet reveal my identity (6f2ab8)

  58. I wonder why?

    just kidding.

    By the way Did Obama throw Jeremiah Hitler under his re-election campaign bus?

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  59. And yes the Westboro Baptist Church gave money to dems so don’t call them far-right.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  60. ICY

    No what SPqR means is he really doesent get to sit at the adult table

    EricPWJohnson (2a58f7)

  61. Why don’t the westboro baptist church move to Venezuela.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  62. Homeschooling is evil.

    Private schools are evil.

    But leftys have no problem homeschooling their kids or sending their kids to private schools now don’t they?

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  63. Yes, but they don’t really feel good about it, whereas Republicans do believe in it, so consequently they are wrong or something

    narciso (ef1619)

  64. This is because Phelps klan members go to private schools that is why they say it is evil but defend Obama while doing it.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  65. Well, now that Eric has “outed” me* I would like to thank everyone that took the time to read my silly little story; special thanks go to those that wrote notes of appreciation.

    [*unlike the 2 million Jews living in Iran, I actually DO exist]

    Icy (6f2ab8)

  66. I don’t get to sit at the adult table, because I’m always made to keep the juveniles in line. Like EPWJ.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  67. Gotta love christians in egypt insisting Muhammad was not a terrorist back when Falwell said it.

    I guess even Copts are dhimmis back then.

    DohBiden (ef98f0)

  68. 67

    yeah, someone has to do it….

    EricPWJohnson (2a58f7)

  69. Did you know Fred Phelps and his cronies are civil rights attorneys they scream civil rights violation whenever black leftys don’t get their way.

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  70. Why are the KKK considered right wing is it because they opposed socialists and communists?

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  71. Bravo, Icy.

    SPQR – only prescription meds could keep epwj in line.

    JD (14475a)

  72. Phelps and his kids are dems who homeschool their children they also believe blacks are poor victims of the right.

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  73. Goota love the movie I’m watching where the gorebull warming believers are shocked and appalled that the Mayor would deny Gorebull Warming and demand he be arrested.

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  74. Gotta*

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  75. I’m thankful for the outstanding job that Governor Rick Perry is doing.

    Dustin (1dad58)

  76. Public Schools provide a better education than Private Schools………….really lefties?

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  77. NY private schools are no better than public schools in some cases.

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  78. I am thankful I am not EricPWJohnson.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  79. Oh I get it my comments were rightfully in the spam fiter.

    I;m thanful EricPWJohnson the talking hemorrhoid is in the majority.

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  80. I’m*

    Thankful*

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  81. Can i sue the TSA for racial profiling since they don’t go after muslims with dark skin?

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)

  82. I am thankful tha I am considered by the color my skin to be the “right blend of ingredient

    EricPWJohnson (d84fb0)

  83. I’m not thanful that Eric is a race baiting c8nt.

    I’m not thankfulthat the left used Laura Bush’s cancer to bash Bush for his opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

    Dohbiden (ef98f0)


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