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Subject: BS: Happy Thanksgiving 2010 From: Donuel Date: 20 Nov 10 - 03:20 PM Be your holiday a small family feast or a large gathering friends and family have a new and exciting holiday. Some may choose to have an idological or a religious celebration based on the famous story of how illegal aliens came to this land's shore, with half thier number already dead from disease, accident and starvation, and shared a feast with the native people who knew how to best gather the sustainable bounties of this great land. To me it is simply a primal harvest celebration that helps brace us for the coming winter. Be safe and keep up the good work. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: gnu Date: 20 Nov 10 - 03:29 PM Have a good Thanksgiving my Yankee friends... and all down south in general, of course. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Nov 10 - 03:36 PM May you all bite the bird............... Actually we're doing the big dinner tomorrow at Connie's and a seafood thanksgiving day here at home. Again........Bite the Bird! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: gnu Date: 20 Nov 10 - 03:57 PM Bite the bird? You turkey! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Donuel Date: 20 Nov 10 - 05:09 PM Turduckin is up to 16 pounds of meat, one stuff3ed inside another. Hey you! yeah you, you who are planning to be alone and have a microwave dinner. Don't do it! Get out despite the hassle and cold. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Nov 10 - 11:57 PM Turduckin...............Is it any wonder the rest of the world find us so hedonistic, greedy, wasteful, whatever...........Good Christ we cook food inside of food! Got a friend that when someone explained Turduckin to him, they ended with the question, "Do you know what they call it?" Trvis never missed a beat as he replied, "I'd call it Sodomy." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Janie Date: 21 Nov 10 - 01:56 AM It is interesting to me to observe that Thanksgiving is a very different and somewhat less significant holiday in the South than a bit further north. And will just let that dangle since I gotta go to bed..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: gnu Date: 21 Nov 10 - 05:31 AM Spaw... that is priceless... hehehehee. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: VirginiaTam Date: 21 Nov 10 - 07:56 AM pout... sniffle... I miss Thanksgiving. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Desert Dancer Date: 21 Nov 10 - 12:55 PM Tam - pick a day, have a feast, say "thanks!"! (I know, it helps to have a communal energy about it, and then there are all those weekend gatherings to share leftovers...) It is a good time of year to collect recipes online, though... ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: mikesamwild Date: 21 Nov 10 - 01:09 PM Not happy for turkeys! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: ChanteyLass Date: 21 Nov 10 - 01:12 PM I'll spend the day at Mystic Seaport where I can hear some maritime music and have a very late "brunch" at their Latitude 41 restaurant. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Mrrzy Date: 21 Nov 10 - 02:40 PM This is one of my faves. Love you all, thanks to you all! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Donuel Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:09 PM EEEK Some people have broken the established sububan custom of putting up lawn Xmas decorations already, instead of waiting until Thanksgiving day. Spaw, your post was my first real lol of the day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: frogprince Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:18 PM However stewpid America's Home Videos usually is, they still come up with a few that amuse me. Someone sent in a clip in which he removed a small bird (maybe a cornish hen) from inside the cooked turkey and let on to a couple of little kids that the turkey had been preggers when they cooked it. The kids didn't buy it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: frogprince Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:21 PM As for the last several T-days, we will dine at the home of one of my wife's father's girlfriend's granddaughters. Anyone else here doing that? : ) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: SINSULL Date: 22 Nov 10 - 12:39 PM SPaw! What are you teaching that boy?????? Happy Thanksgiving all. Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Melissa Date: 22 Nov 10 - 04:35 PM turkey song |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Janie Date: 23 Nov 10 - 08:01 PM Happy Thanksgiving Indeed! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Donuel Date: 23 Nov 10 - 08:54 PM great gobblin dancing turkey butts Happy Franksgiving. FDR made thanksgiving the second thursday of November in hopes people would do more shopping and stimulate the economy. COngress moved it back. After 200 years the south may still be steamed about thanksgiving since Abe Lincoln made it a Federal holiday. The holiday became a bit more universal after WW 2. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 23 Nov 10 - 08:57 PM Happy Thanksgiving, and a Merry one too! I vote that Canadians celebrate the American as well. Always room for more pumpkin pie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Sawzaw Date: 23 Nov 10 - 09:45 PM Happy Thanksgiving to all. We are loaded up with about 12 guests, some of which are vegetarions. But I know at least one vegetarian who will only eat turkey and they will only eat it on Thanksgiving Day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Nov 10 - 10:21 PM We'll be roasting a 6 pound duck instead of the turkey, there only being three of us at Robinhood Farm this year. I suppose I could have blasted one of the wild turkeys that periodically patrols the front lawn but somehow that seemed a more unfriendly act then picking up a bird at Whole Foods that was already butchered. Have a good Thanksgiving! And eat the bird! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Janie Date: 23 Nov 10 - 10:49 PM Donuel, I have wondered for the 24 years I have lived in North Carolina why Thanksgiving is not culturally as significant a family gathering/Feast Day as it is from whence I came. I think you may have explained it. Dad, aside from being my favorite dad, is also a favorite Uncle, not to mention favorite Grandfather. One of my cousins proposed a family reunion so that everyone who can make it gets to see and spend time with him before he gets too ill. We are headed for an in-gathering of the Williams clan at a resort in West Virginia and will get to spend time with cousins, aunts, nieces and nephews from all over the East that have not been together since my grandparents died, close to 17 years ago. (And Mom won't have to cook!) More precious than gold. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 24 Nov 10 - 09:58 AM >Turduckin...............Is it any wonder the rest of the world find us so hedonistic, greedy, wasteful, whatever...........Good Christ we cook food inside of food! Got a friend that when someone explained Turduckin to him, they ended with the question, "Do you know what they call it?" Trvis never missed a beat as he replied, "I'd call it Sodomy." Spaw< I have just seen something like this on sale in the UK now only Turchickduckin 3 layers of bird. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: GUEST,Jon Date: 24 Nov 10 - 10:23 AM Happy Thanksgiving, Never really understood it over here. There are things I think are US like trick or treating and McDonalds that we took to readily but even though it sounds far more worthwhile we don't have it in the UK. Maybe next year we as a family will have our own,,, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 25 Nov 10 - 05:21 AM Happy Thanksgiving. I wish we had something like this here, something more family orientated in UK, Christmas is now so commercial it would be nice to have an occasion like Thanksgiving as a family time. But no doubt they would probably commercialise that here in time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: GUEST,Jon Date: 25 Nov 10 - 08:10 AM Everything gets commercialised over here Patsy and we buy into it too easily. On holidays/festivals, another example would be Easter. From one Christian POV I am not asking you to believe in, IMO, it possibly more important than Christmas as nothing would have been resolved without it. But believers or otherwise, we turn it into say chocolate bunnies and cream eggs... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: topical tom Date: 25 Nov 10 - 08:21 AM Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends! Great day for feasting and football! Bad for The Bird. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Guy Wolff Date: 25 Nov 10 - 08:36 AM HAppy Bird day to you ><<><><> |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 25 Nov 10 - 09:27 AM All the best to my friends south of the border! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email) Date: 25 Nov 10 - 09:30 AM Thanksgiving, the day when the settlers thank the native Americans. And then down the road the settlers went and killed them. No thanks no giving more like. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Charley Noble Date: 25 Nov 10 - 09:06 PM The roasted duck was delicious! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Beer Date: 25 Nov 10 - 09:11 PM May we always remain friends. Happy Thanksgiving from north of the border. Adrien |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: katlaughing Date: 25 Nov 10 - 10:01 PM Rich, some of us have felt that way for a long time, but we turned it around to a day in which we are thankfull for whatever blessings we may have/enjoy. Now, if we could just get the school systems up to date. They were better about it back in New England. Out here in the Rocky Mountain west, I noticed kindergarteners coming out of school with construction paper Pilgrim hats and Indian headbands with feathers. I don't blame the teachers...they have to teach the curriculum and don't dare deviate. Anyway, Happy Giving Thanks to all of my Mudcat friends and thanks, Donuel, for starting this thread and being so chipper! It's good to see. luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: frogprince Date: 25 Nov 10 - 10:27 PM Overstuffed with food and good cheer from a day with family ranging in age from 15 months to 92 years of age. Not planning to be in any store at anything like 4AM. The best to all of ya. Dean |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email) Date: 26 Nov 10 - 06:07 AM I hope you all had a great family day. Some good news for turkeys in the UK today, the turkey tycoon Bernard Matthews has died at the age of 80. The farmer and businessman - best known for his "bootiful" catchphrase - made a multi-million pound fortune through his vast poultry company and is widely credited with bringing cheap turkey meat to the masses. You have to admire the guy,Bernard Matthews began with a humble £2.50p investment in 1950 with 12 turkey eggs and an incubator in the heart of Norfolk. It grew into the biggest turkey processor in Europe. He has my respect, may he rest in peace. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: frogprince Date: 26 Nov 10 - 11:56 AM My father-in-law didn't become a millionaire, but he managed a turkey farm for decades, marketing over 20,000 birds per year. He's the "92" in the family group that I mentioned. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy Thanksgiving From: gnu Date: 26 Nov 10 - 04:49 PM froogy.... that is what Thanksgiving ia all about. Heartwarming. |
