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iranfromthezoo · Nov 22, 2006, 06:56 PM

Hey guys just wanted to tell all of you Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all enjoy your time off and time with family and friends. I'm thankful for knowing you guys through this forum and just to let you know you guys are pretty dang awesome!

Thanks,
jt

RAILhead · Nov 22, 2006, 07:24 PM

We'll be eating like maniacs tomorrow – and I'm REALLY looking forward to it. I swear, my Mom could make a turd taste like the greatest thing on earth if she wanted to.

brokecollegestudentF04 · Nov 22, 2006, 07:33 PM

Me and my bf are going to visit his son and his sons mother for dinner as his parents wont allow him home for crazy reasons, should be an interesting day, gonna top it off with going to see Lets go to prison

typoon · Nov 22, 2006, 07:36 PM

Happy Thankgsgiving Everyone!!! Enjoy the RAIN on the east coast.

SirCastor · Nov 22, 2006, 08:02 PM

I have a sore throat right now and I'm achy, Lousy way to spend the Holiday, but what can I do. I'm going up with my girlfriend to her Mom's.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

C.A.T.S. CEO · Nov 22, 2006, 08:25 PM

Happy Thanksgiving!!! (my sig)

Chicken is in the place of turkey at my house. (nobody likes it over here)

zerostar · Nov 22, 2006, 08:32 PM

Happy thanksgiving! My wife made an Apple apple pie!
ENJOY!!!

imitchellg5 · Nov 22, 2006, 08:39 PM

Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone else! I really do like being around MacNN, it takes a lot of boredom out of my day.

KeyLimePi · Nov 23, 2006, 08:52 AM

Let also add a Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the eats and take time to count your blessings.

Tuoder · Nov 23, 2006, 09:24 AM

Happy Thanksgiving, and try not to be too irritated that many stores have had christmas stuff out for a week.

mac128k-1984 · Nov 23, 2006, 09:33 AM

Happy Thanksgiving and let me say that I'm truly thankful this year because of the birth of my twin girls (they're turning 11 months).

IceEnclosure · Nov 23, 2006, 09:40 AM

Happy Thanks people!

screamingFit · Nov 23, 2006, 10:12 AM

If the Pilgrims had killed a cat instead of a turkey, we'd all be eating pussy today.

Lame joke, I know.

brokecollegestudentF04 · Nov 23, 2006, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by screamingFit

If the Pilgrims had killed a cat instead of a turkey, we'd all be eating pussy today.

Lame joke, I know.

LOL Excellent, Anyways Happy thanksgiving all, newayz its time to go pull the turkey outta the fryer... mmmm fried turkey the only way to have it.. Everyone have a Happy Turkey Day... Tonight will be topped off with a trip to the movies to see lets go to prison...

Enjoy Thanksgiving

imitchellg5 · Nov 23, 2006, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by mac128k-1984

Happy Thanksgiving and let me say that I'm truly thankful this year because of the birth of my twin girls (they're turning 11 months).

Congratulations!

Apple Pro Underwear · Nov 23, 2006, 11:47 AM

Happy thanksgiving homeys!

BlueSky · 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by RAILhead

I swear, my Mom could make a turd taste like the greatest thing on earth if she wanted to.

Well then maybe she'll make them taste better today, for the sake of Thanksgiving and all...

Happy Thanksgiving you buncha turkeys.

Macintosh Sauce · Nov 23, 2006, 12:12 PM

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! May God bless you and your families too.

OB1 · Nov 23, 2006, 01:03 PM

In the UK, we always get to hear that it's time for Thanksgiving for our friends in America, but we know little about its origins... For the benefit of those in others countries - What's Thanksgiving all about?

Happy Thanksgiving to all the people over the pond!

rickey939 · Nov 23, 2006, 01:16 PM

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

screamingFit · Nov 23, 2006, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by OB1

In the UK, we always get to hear that it's time for Thanksgiving for our friends in America, but we know little about its origins... For the benefit of those in others countries - What's Thanksgiving all about?

Happy Thanksgiving to all the people over the pond!

Some displaced English folk, who dressed up like the Quaker Oats guy, got crocked off their rocker, killed some turkeys and had the native people over to party before they offed them and took their land.

Then the next day, the Quaker Oats folk went shopping.

In all actuality, though, what we celebrate today was made up from some woman editor of a ladies magazine.

OwlBoy · Nov 23, 2006, 01:28 PM

Turkey!

-Owl

Apple Pro Underwear · Nov 23, 2006, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by OB1

In the UK, we always get to hear that it's time for Thanksgiving for our friends in America, but we know little about its origins... For the benefit of those in others countries - What's Thanksgiving all about?

Thanksgiving is one of 3 things:

1. A legal holiday where people don't have to work, which is a cause for celebration in itself

2. A sham holiday created to mark the beginning of the "shopping season"

3. A celebration of an event that may possibly happened but not the way that it is currently glorified (pilgrims and native americans chillin' up in the grim's hood up in autumn back in the day)

TheoCryst · Nov 23, 2006, 01:34 PM

It probably never happened, but in theory, Thanksgiving is the celebration of a bunch of old snotty Brits getting kicked out of England for being too crazy-religious. They came to America, made friends with natives, and had dinner. Yeah, that's the entire story. But hey, it means an excuse to eat a very large quantity of food and to get a four-day weekend. Score!

PS, happy Thanksgiving!

macforray · Nov 23, 2006, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by typoon

Happy Thankgsgiving Everyone!!! Enjoy the RAIN on the east coast.

Very sunny and pleasant here in the snow belt (also no snow yet). What rain?

Happy Thanksgiving to all, even those who don't officially celebrate the holiday. A good time to reflect on what we are thankful for.

OB1 · Nov 23, 2006, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by screamingFit

Some displaced English folk, who dressed up like the Quaker Oats guy, got crocked off their rocker, killed some turkeys and had the native people over to party before they offed them and took their land.

Then the next day, the Quaker Oats folk went shopping.

In all actuality, though, what we celebrate today was made up from some woman editor of a ladies magazine.

Originally Posted by Apple Pro Underwear

Thanksgiving is one of 3 things:

1. A legal holiday where people don't have to work, which is a cause for celebration in itself

2. A sham holiday created to mark the beginning of the "shopping season"

3. A celebration of an event that may possibly happened but not the way that it is currently glorified (pilgrims and native americans chillin' up in the grim's hood up in autumn back in the day)

Originally Posted by TheoCryst

It probably never happened, but in theory, Thanksgiving is the celebration of a bunch of old snotty Brits getting kicked out of England for being too crazy-religious. They came to America, made friends with natives, and had dinner. Yeah, that's the entire story. But hey, it means an excuse to eat a very large quantity of food and to get a four-day weekend. Score!

PS, happy Thanksgiving!

A few old, possible, events merging in to one big round of eating and boozing? - Sounds just like Christmas

We should have it over here.

Have fun everyone. Thanks for the replies.

C.A.T.S. CEO · Nov 23, 2006, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by OB1

In the UK, we always get to hear that it's time for Thanksgiving for our friends in America, but we know little about its origins... For the benefit of those in others countries - What's Thanksgiving all about?

Happy Thanksgiving to all the people over the pond!

Its about a bunch of English men that didn't like England and the moved over here, made friends with the native americans and had a big feast.

OwlBoy · Nov 23, 2006, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO

Its about a bunch of English men that didn't like England and the moved over here, killed the native americans and had a big feast.

Fixed?

-Owl

Tuoder · Nov 23, 2006, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by OwlBoy

Fixed?

-Owl

You got it.

ghporter · Nov 23, 2006, 03:39 PM

I like to reflect on what I'm thankful for on a daily basis. But my family also manages to put on a nice feed once in a while too.

Today though, our son had his Thanksgiving dinner with his girlfriend's family, and we had a nice time at a very nice restaurant with our best friends.

Unfortunately, the lady half of our best friends works retail, as does our son, so tomorrow isn't going to be particularly festive for them. I've never figured out why everyone has to go shop their guts out on the day after Thanksgiving... I don't like to go to grocery stores on that day!

Tuoder · Nov 23, 2006, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

I like to reflect on what I'm thankful for on a daily basis. But my family also manages to put on a nice feed once in a while too.

Today though, our son had his Thanksgiving dinner with his girlfriend's family, and we had a nice time at a very nice restaurant with our best friends.

Unfortunately, the lady half of our best friends works retail, as does our son, so tomorrow isn't going to be particularly festive for them. I've never figured out why everyone has to go shop their guts out on the day after Thanksgiving... I don't like to go to grocery stores on that day!

My parents would have shot me if I had been anywhere but with my family for turkey day.

ghporter · Nov 23, 2006, 04:16 PM

The kid's 19 and they're "serious." We think of this as being an opportunity for him to show his sterling character with her family.

And I have plenty of other things to shoot him over anyway, so we gave him a pass on this one.

C.A.T.S. CEO · Nov 23, 2006, 07:52 PM

Well Thanksgivings over so time for Christmas!

(my Thanksgiving sig)

rickey939 · Nov 23, 2006, 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO

Well Thanksgivings over so time for Christmas!

Good idea...

Before:

After:

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C.A.T.S. CEO · Nov 23, 2006, 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by rickey939

Good idea...

Before:

After:

<see below>

nice.

rickey939 · Nov 23, 2006, 09:50 PM

Thanks.

KeriVit · Nov 23, 2006, 11:19 PM

I'm thankful that my sig other is safe at her parents with me after a week in the ICu and 2 more weeks in the hospital. We are hoping for happier times and many more days, weeks, months and years together.

Thanks to life and say thanks that your own family is with you.

C.A.T.S. CEO · Nov 23, 2006, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by OwlBoy

Turkey!

-Owl

I like this better:

Dakar² · Nov 24, 2006, 01:22 AM

Originally Posted by ghporter

Today though, our son had his Thanksgiving dinner with his girlfriend's family

The Thanksgivings where I did 2 Thanksgiving dinners with my, then my ex's family may have been some of the longest days I've ever known.

Originally Posted by ghporter

I've never figured out why everyone has to go shop their guts out on the day after Thanksgiving... I don't like to go to grocery stores on that day!

At this point they put on ridiculous sales just to get people out... at 5am. That's pretty ****ed up.

OwlBoy · Nov 24, 2006, 03:47 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar²

The Thanksgivings where I did 2 Thanksgiving dinners with my, then my ex's family may have been some of the longest days I've ever known.

And to think I look forward to this… how naive this virgin is.

-Owl

Tuoder · Nov 24, 2006, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by ghporter

The kid's 19 and they're "serious." We think of this as being an opportunity for him to show his sterling character with her family.

And I have plenty of other things to shoot him over anyway, so we gave him a pass on this one.

I remember being "serious". That wasn't all that long ago. I was lucky enough that my family has their thanksgiving so early it is almost lunch.