BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Nov 09 - 12:23 PM

There's a certain poignancy to this story. Makes me proud to be a Juneauite.

Coming Together

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Nov 09 - 12:09 PM

Ebbie-

Very nicely done!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Nov 09 - 01:36 PM

Isn't it neat! Juneau is one of those towns where many of us are on a first name basis with our city and state officials. We are not 'classless', I'm sure, but it'll do until the real thing comes along.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Nov 17 - 12:34 PM

Heard on The Prairie Home Companion,
vocalized by Vern Sutton
(but somebody else wrote it):

I'm thankful the Pilgrims didn't grow brussel sprooooooouts ....

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: DMcG
Date: 14 Nov 17 - 12:50 PM

On 25th November this year my house will be holding a "British Thanksgiving" at which there will one through-and-through Virginian and two people who have lived a significant part on the East Coast of the States. But we are British, for heaven's sake, so the menu will be things like Beef Wellington and Yorkshire Curd tart for dessert.

As to what people will say round the table I can only guess.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Nov 17 - 12:05 PM

"Did someone make cornbread?" That became a thing when someone did make cornbread, but it was kinda runny like spoon bread, and my old bat of a mom did not understand that it was, indeed, cornbread, or at least being considered so. So now whether there is cornbread or not, that question gets asked.

Also we talk about gypsies because we weren't allowed to when Mom was alive.

That strong, vibrant woman has a LOT to answer for.

Oh, and we watch My Cousin Vinny. Not sure how that became a Thanksgiving tradition, but yeah, you blend.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Nov 17 - 04:48 PM

Thanks for sharing the amusement, Mrr!

One Thanksgiving, as we were clearing the table after dinner,
the relatives who did kitchen duty asked cautiously:

"did you like the pumpkin pie we made for you?"
Affirmative answers all round.
Smiling confession:
"it wasn't pumpkin, it was butternut squash."

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Charmion
Date: 19 Nov 17 - 03:23 PM

We had Thanksgiving a month ago, so the American Thanksgiving is always a bit distracting. Most notable for us this year was Himself's admission that, after decades of campaigning against all cooked vegetables of the gourd family, he actually quite likes squash soup. Pumpkin pie was always exempt from the anti-squash hate-fest because enough sugar, cinnamon and cream fixes anything.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Amos
Date: 21 Nov 17 - 01:17 PM

We are going to a friend's home this year, for good and sufficient reason; I will be very grateful for the energy and skill that others expend on my behalf, both directly and indirectly.

Other things for which gratitude wells up: the love of good companions, of family, and of kind souls in small towns. The wealth provided by long experience and a sense of humor. A life free of entangling bureaucraciers and multi-tiered administrative gobbledygook (except, of course, when dealing with gummint agencies, health care organizations, insurance, taxes, and large corporate help desks.) A long life in good health, more or less, and a head full of wonderful songs and the will to sing 'em (regardless of ability). A wife I could not live without, a son in whom I am right proud, and a dog who seems to adore me, when hungry.

Merry hols to one and all, Pilgrim-inspired or no.

A

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: meself
Date: 21 Nov 17 - 01:41 PM

It sounds like you've all been remarkably successful at avoiding politics around the dinner table. How do you do it?

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Nov 17 - 04:06 PM

How do we do it?

Where I was raised,
we avoid REPORTING on politics raised around the dinner table.
Those of us who didn't do the talking
were supposed to suck it up during,
and not talk about it after.

And they wonder
why I don't show up for Thanksgiving any more ...

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Nov 17 - 07:56 AM

Amos, I need me a hungry dog.

We will have several at Thanksgiving this year... a basset, a tall thin mutt who can levitate onto the table like a deer when you aren't looking, a little half-catahoula who is actually well-behaved, a mostly-Brittany spaniel who's a redhead without a temper (the basset, actually, has the temper), a beagle who is getting old, and a chocolate lab; all rescues. Oh, and I forgot jaildog, who is tiny. We are not a cat family.

And we can usually talk politics as we are all liberal. Almost all. One nephew of mine decided at age, oh, 7 maybe, that he would have to be a republican because one day he would be rich. He's almost 30 now, still fairly-newly out of the closet, and he voted for Hillary so he's not an ass. Much. He tries to spout their lines, but will see sense. Mostly.

And I found the pie recipe which uses a cookie called Sandies for the crust, but I could only find pecan sandies, and what do you want to bet I will hear about that.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Nov 17 - 10:32 PM

A basset with a temper.

Now why does that make me think of the Mozart Requiem,
and "basset horns" ?

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Amos
Date: 23 Nov 17 - 01:42 PM

Definitely a title for musical composition: the well-tempered basset hound.

Our Maggie dog is delightfully well-mannered except when there's food at the table. Then she comes up with the most soulful, begging beams of desire emanating from her bottomless brown eyes, enough to melt your heart and your grip on that piece of bacon...

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 03:56 PM

... the day will be here before you know it.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 04:20 PM

"Isn't this an air hockey table under this tablecloth?"
Don't turn it .... uh oh.

Subject: RE: BS: stuff heard round the thanksgiving table
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 09:10 PM

Don't know if we're getting cornbread but at least the vegan isn't coming...