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In preparation for Thanksgiving tomorrow, I’ve prepared some questions along with my own answers for you to answer in the comment section.
1. Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on television. Yay or nay?
I’m a little in both camps. I recognize that it’s usually a total snoozefest and I hate those teasers like “Coming up! Garfield!” But if it’s on, I undoubtedly get sucked into it and end up watching the whole thing and wave to Santa through the TV. Shut up.
2. What is your favorite Thanksgiving side dish? You can’t say turkey!
My aunt’s stuffing. It’s homemade and it is so incredibly good. Like, I’m sure you think your stuffing is really good and that your family’s recipe is the best, but it’s not. Her’s is. Sorry!
3. What is your favorite beverage (alcoholic or nonalcoholic) to go with your Thanksgiving Day meal?
Apple cider.
4. Cranberry Sauce. Delicious tradition, or evil jello wannabe?
Delicious!
5. What is your favorite pie?
Apple. I mean, I’ll never turn away any pie, but apple is the tops. Warmed up with vanilla ice cream. Mmmm.
6. Match the following pies with the following toppings. Apple, Pumpkin, Blueberry. Reddiwhip, Cool Whip, Ice Cream.
Apple = Ice Cream, Pumpkin = Reddiwhip, Blueberry = Cool Whip.
7. Complete this sentence: The secret to a delicious post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich is:
Meat selection. You have to pick the perfect pieces of meat, otherwise a bite into a line of fat halfway through will ruin the entire experience!
8. What is your post-Thanksgiving meal ritual? Don’t say pooping, you gross bastard!
Survivor. Normally it’s the annoying clipshow, but this year it’s an entirely new episode!
9. What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day themed movie or television episode?
Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Followed closely by the Thanksgiving Day play scene in Addams Family Values. “We cannot break bread with you.”
10. What are you most thankful for this year? You can only pick one!
Successfully completing a novel writing month thanks to my friend Meg who organized it and got our asses in gear!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:58 am
1. Parades bore me, unless of course it will be the one I’m having when I take over the world….
2. Potatoes, you can’t go wrong with 2 pieces of rye bread, a nice piece of turkey and some potatoes on top of that turkey, one thing I look forward to most every year.
3. Rum and Coke, everything is better with rum.
4. I’m not a big fan of things that jiggle, hence the self loathing
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5. Apple crumb, essentially everything is better with crumb on top. And yes, this sounds vaguely familiar to the rum concept, but really, I could live off of crumb and rum.
6. Not a big fan of topping on pies and this may draw ire, but I hate whip cream and everything of the sort. One of the main reasons I’m not a big cake fan either, cream just does not do it for me. Ice cream and pie is just a bit much for me and I prefer to toss the ice cream with say a brownie or cookie over pie. The normal fair for desert at our house on Thanksgiving consists of a pie, a frosted pound cake from this amazing bakery that we’ve gone to for 20+ years, and a bakery cookie assortment or a coffee cake/danish.
7. Eating one before all the turkey disappears.
8. Video games (this year it will be Uncharted 2 multiplayer) or a movie I’ve seen way too many times (I’m thinking The Princess Bride or The Simpsons Movie if the game play idea falls flat.)
9. Not really a big fan of Thanksgiving themed things, sorta an off holiday to jump on as a trend, but to contribute something, the Roseanne Thanksgiving episodes were always good.
10. Finally getting motivated enough to edit my novel and start shopping it around to literary agents. Sure, I’m still waiting on a few replies but it’s almost Christmas like in the anticipation of the mail with a slight mix of horrified anticipation.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:05 am
1. Never seen it.
2. Smirnoff Vodka
3. See answer #2
4. Delicious!
5. Apple too.
6. Apple=Ice Cream, Pumpkin = nothing, Blueberry = Ice Cream
7. Thick slices of breast meat
8. See answer #2
9. Was An Early Frost set at Thanksgiving? It’s the only one I can think of.
Kinda depressing but a good movie.
10. Finding a real job!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:18 am
1. Parade – Nope. I’ll probz be in transit to my dad’s house (UGH)
2. Fave side dish – Mashed potatoes
3. Beverage – Iced tea? Juice? It’s all I drink.
4. Cranberry Sauce = Delicious tradition
5. Favorite Pie – don’t really like pie or cake, but I love Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie, if that counts
6. I hate Reddiwhip and Cool Whip, so ice cream would go will all the pies for me.
7. The secret to a delicious post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich is not eating one. Leftovers suck.
8. Post-Thanksgiving meal ritual – Well, I’ll be at my dad’s, so that means I’ll sit on the sofa for hours and stare at the wall while my father and brother watch soccer and my sisters play with their cell phones
9. Favorite Thanksgiving Day themed movie or television episode – Umm… None? Buffy?
10. Most thankful for this year – I can’t ruin my blog entry I have planned for tomorrow! So I’ll say… my blog.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:27 am
1. I turn it on for background noise but don’t actively watch it. It’s too boring to watch on television.
2. Definitely stuffing!
3. A nice sweet white wine, usually Pino Grigio or a Gewurztraminer.
4. Cranberry Sauce is the reason turkey was invented. Deeeelicious. But I only like the kind from the can, haha.
5. Pumpkin but I won’t kick dutch apple out of bed for crumbing up the joint.
6. Apple = Ice Cream, Pumpkin = CoolWhip, Blueberry = gross.
7. Complete this sentence: The secret to a delicious post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich is: including everything on it…cranberry, stuffing, gravy and mayo! Uh, plus the turkey (white meat only) of course.
8. Going out to a bar with my cousins. This year, probably Survivor as well.
9. Probably something from Friends.
10. My divorce. No really. It’s a hard thing to go through but I also feel liberated and happier than I have in years.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:30 am
1. Snore
2. I make a fantastic ginger beets recipe from an old Shaker cookbook.
3. Water, duhr. I’ll have a glass of wine, too, though.
4. Evil. Why not just piss on my turkey while you’re at it.
5. What is this “favorite pie” you speak of? I eat the pumpkin pie because it’s there, but my family knows it ain’t dessert if it ain’t chocolate. Pass the chocolate cake, please.
6. Don’t care. Snore.
7. To use the same deli-sliced stuff I use all year-round. I hate turkey sandwiches made from actual T-day turkey. Bleah.
8. Don’t have one.
9. Don’t have one. Dad may have a football game on as background noise. That’s the only media entertainment we bother with.
10. My contrariness. And all the great people I’ve met through the blog world. One in particular, of course.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:43 am
1. No parades
2. Stuffing. My Mom makes it with chorizo and it is the best.
3. Sprite Zero.
4. Cranberry Sauce is AWESOMESAUCE!
5. Apple and exactly how you described it.
6. Apple = Ice Cream, Pumpkin and Blueberry = Reddi Whip. Cool Whip is disgusting.
7. Cranberry, Stuffing and a little mayo.
8. Sitting and talking with family I don’t get to see that often. My family is really big and my nieces and nephews are now spreading out across the country, so I don’t get to see them as often as I would like.
9. Never really had one, but Addams Family Values is a good choice.
10. My family. I know everyone thinks this, but my family is very special and I’m lucky they are mine.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:44 am
David: re: your number 10 – Aww, thanks! Love you too!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:44 am
1. Haven’t watched in years. We don’t get regular TV or cable anymore, anyway
2. David makes an incredible dressing. It’s his T’giving specialty and I love to help eat it.
3. Sweet tea
4. NOM!!!! All kinds.
5. Sweet tater. Gonna make some tonight.
6. Toppings? We don’t need no stinkin’ toppings.
7. No such thing. Haven’t eaten dead bird on T’giving since 1992.
8. Rubbing my belly and moaning in delicious agony. Maybe watching TV if we’re somewhere that has it.
9. I’ve never even thought of this one, but I love the scene in P, T, & A where the mouthbreather is saying “Her first baby come out sideways, and she didn’t scream er nothin’.”
10. Friends and loved ones, always
November 25th, 2009 at 8:50 am
1. Never watch it. Never have. Ever. Watching it would cut into my sleeping in time.
2. Mama Polt’s Homemade Stuffing. And I’m sure your aunt’s stuffing is the bee’s knees and all that, but I’m sorry, it’s just not Mama Polt’s.
3. Pepsi. Ice Cold.
4. Evil. Pointless, stupid and evil. Kinda like Sarah Palin.
5. In general, cherry. But for Thanksgiving, MUST have pumpkin pie, made the may grandma does. It’s the only thing she brings. Its the only thing she needs to bring.
6. I like apple just warm, no topping. Pumpkin needs the Cool Whip. And I don’t like Blueberry at all.
7. Thick white meat and mayo (and strangely enough, this is NOT a veiled sexual reference).
8. Sitting on my couch, watching the Dallas Cowboys win their football game and filling out my Christmas Cards.
9. I don’t really have a favorite, but the Cheers Thanksgiving epsiode was pretty damn funny. Begins with Diane in a pilgrim outfit and ends in a huge food fight.
10. Friends. Since I lost a very good friend to suicide earlier in the year, it’s made me more appreciative of all my other friends. Like they say, Friends are the family you chose.
Have a Happy One, Craiggers!
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Dr. Para: How about crumb, rum, and bum? Mmm.
Mark: Yay for the real job!
Enrico: Wasn’t there a Thanksgiving Day scene in The Body episode? Maybe that counts!
Hilly: Gewurztraminer. Excellent choice!
David: But real turkey sandwiches are awesome!
John: Cool whip is NOT disgusting!
Enrico: Wait, I thought David was talking about ME!?
Mel: What kind of dressing? Like salad dressing?
Polt: Cherry pie is evil! Mainly because I’m allergic to the red die they use.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:54 am
1. Since I don’t have cable (and my TV has no reception otherwise), no parade for me … unless I’m at a neighbor’s house.
2. broccoli and cheese casserole (totally White Trash, but I luvs it).
3. Martini. It goes with everything.
4. Love the cranberry sauce.
5. sweet potato pie. mmmmmm.
6. I don’t really like apple. And I loathe pumpkin pie, but I’ll take ice cream on my blueberry pie plz.
7. stuffing and cranberry sauce. leave off the turkey. srsly.
8. with family, Death Croquet. otherwise, it’s the All-Pie Thanksgiving Spectacular (regretably not happening this year though *sigh*)
9. Home for the Holidays
10. that I am employed (finally)
November 25th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Well, it’s not my Thanksgiving but we’re having a potluck at work in honour of it, so close enough.
1. Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on television. Nay, parades on TV are BORING.
2. What is your favorite Thanksgiving side dish? Stuffing, in any form, even out of a box.
3. What is your favorite beverage (alcoholic or nonalcoholic) to go with your Thanksgiving Day meal? Apple cider sounds good.
4. Cranberry Sauce. Delicious tradition, or evil jello wannabe? EVIL!!!!
5. What is your favorite pie? Pumpkin
6. Match the following pies with the following toppings. Apple, Pumpkin, Blueberry. Reddiwhip, Cool Whip, Ice Cream. – Well, I hate white things in general, but Apple AND Blueberry with ice cream and pumpkin pie straight up, my my vodka. LOL
7. Complete this sentence: The secret to a delicious post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich is: A really good bread.
8. What is your post-Thanksgiving meal ritual? Ummm. Surfing the net?
9. What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day themed movie or television episode? Definitely Planes, Trains and Automobiles
10. What are you most thankful for this year? That I have an amazing teenager who is nothing like all the news programs tell me she’s supposed to be at this age. *knock on wood*
November 25th, 2009 at 9:08 am
1. I’ll watch it off and on, but always on for Santa’s arrival.
2. Stuffing. It’s made from bread. I love bread.
3. Cola, whatever type is around.
4. I need the store bought cranberry. Not a fan of the homemade variety.
5. Strawberry Rhubarb
6. Apple Pie=Ice Cream Blueberry Pie=Cool Whip Pumpkin Pie doesn’t exist in my world and I’ve never heard of Reddiwhip.
7. An even layout of the meat. If one side of the snadwich has too much then it all falls out and you just have a plate of leftover turkey.
8. TV. Survivor this year, but since the episode is titled “The First 27 Days” I think it is a clip show.
9. WKRP “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
10. The year is not over yet.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:14 am
1. This is our first thanksgiving with a tv since we had kids, and I know some are excited about this, so I’ll sit through it and politely stay awake. Which others will probably do during football later in the day, so our karma is balanced.
2. Chestnut stuffing, or cranberry sauce. Tough choice.
3. Chilean red wine, or water.
4. Delicious tradition, if it is hot and fluid and homemade, not cold and solid with visible rings from the can.
5. Apple! I usually ask for one as my birthday pie [not cake], so having apple pie on a holiday makes it feel extra-special.
6. Apple with ice cream, blueberry with ice cream. Pumpkin belongs in soup, along with other forms of squash. Reddiwhip and Coolwhip belong in a chemistry lab, along with cheeze wiz and other man-made imitations of food.
7. a yeasty home-made roll. ’cause the turkey and swiss cheese are a given, but the bread or roll you have control over.
8. Watching christmas specials on tv? (I’ve got the Tom Jones Christmas dvd, so that will be awesome.)
9. “A Bundy Thanksgiving” (Married With Children)? [LOL: Given my taste in tv, you can tell why we didn't have one in the house for a decade.]
10. Decent health for our family.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Travel safely and be kind!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Forgot to say: Happy Birthday Polt!!!!! Have a wonderful day!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Xi-Heather makes a kick-ass apple pie. Trust me. Yum.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:22 am
ZOMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY POLT!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:34 am
HAPPY BIRTHDAY POLT! Dang, I was 10 minutes too late to be the first to wish him a happy birthday.
1. As TwoPi pointed out, this is our first Thanksgiving with a Television in 10 years, and “some” are excited about the parade, by which he means me. So yay!
2. Chestnut stuffing. Except the chestnuts make it either expensive or work-intensive or both. But still…yum.
3. Wine.
4. Whatever.
5. French Silk Pie, which is super easy to make and rich enough to satisfy David’s family. Or apple. Or chocolate peanut butter. Or anything, really, because it’s pie. (And thanks Tam!)
6. Apple & Blueberry = ice cream; Pumpkin = something whipped.
7. Swiss Cheese.
8. I don’t remember — I think we’re in a food coma by then.
9. (Don’t really have one.)
10. Nothing big and scary is happening. Day to day life is about 4 hours short per day, but the kids are healthy, bills are getting paid, we got kittens so our house is fully of funny and crazy, and the dining room is clean for the first time in 6 months.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Thank you Tam, Craiggers and Heather. Next year, my birthday will BE on Thanksgiving! YAY!
And FDot, I TOTALLY forgot about the WKRP episode! ohmiGOD I LOVED that! That is perhaps my favorite line from the whole show!!! Awesome!
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 9:58 am
What’s WKRP?
Just kidding.
No but really, what is it?
Kidding again.
And I agree with everyone who said cranberry sauce out of a can was best! I agree! Although I don’t think I’ve ever had homemade.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Heather and TwoPi: We need pics of the kittens! (And I apologize if they’re on your blog, but wordpress is blocked at work so I can’t check!)
November 25th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Polt: All day yesterday the calendar on my phone kept beeping me, but when I checked it there was nothing listed. I just realized, I set it to remind me that today was your B-day, (Tam gave me the date a few months ago), but I guess I forgot to type in the “event”. Damn Technology! Happy Birthday!
Tam is the Birthday Queen!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:32 am
1. Hellz yeah I am. That’s the reason I stay over la casa de mis padres the night before! So I can wake up early in the fudgin’ mornin’, drink 2-3 hard ciders before 10 and belligerently make fun of all those stupid floats. I’m actually planning a recap post on the parade for my own site.
2. Favo side dish? Masher tatoz…DURH! I eat buckets of that stuff and then feel like an overstuffed pillow and cry cuz my stomach refuses to just give up and let me get fat. Then I die. Then get dragged to hell.
3. In mah family, it’s anyting wiff liquor.
4. Neither! I still a quart container of the dangerously addictive cran-orange sauce that mah restaurant makes. That shit is like dessssssert, it’s so goddamn sweet.
5.Cow pie, pweaze!
6.Rhonetta = Cool Whip, Christina Aguilera = Reddiwhip, P!nk = Ice Cream (ice cream, we all want some ice cream!)
7. Eating it like a maniac in a public space so people think you’re crazzzy & run for their lives. Then you act like a zombie who hungerz for human flesh and you kidnap/consume the closest infant in front of their bawling parents.
8. More drinking until I pass out and VOM in mah sleep.
9. I dunno. National Lampoon’s Turkey [read as: Christmas] Vacation?!
10. Joining this bloggy cesspool of depraved sexxxytime debauchery! DURHZ!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Josh: 6 = LOL!!! Perfect choices.
10 = You’re welcome!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:42 am
1. Saw the parade live when I was a kid so watching on TV pales in comparison to that memory.
2. Sweet potato pie!!!!!!
3. Bottle of wine, if you have met my extended family you would know why.
4. Delicious
5. Mom’s homemade apple pie
6. Agree on all but blueberry, don’t like blueberry pie
7. Warm turkey, warm stuffing, and cranberry sauce on a soft roll, sooooooooooooooo gooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. Pepsid for the overeating, aspirin for the wine, and sleep the night away!
9. Any Friends thanksgiving episode – they are all a good laugh.
10. I am most thankful for having a good year, knock wood!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Enrico: Serial, I think I would die if I didn’t know you. PS, mah fellow interns are talking about learning to play the piano and I literally interrupted their convo to yell “I CAN PLAY ‘WHITE HOUSES!’,” to which they ignored me completely while I mimed myself playing it on mah desk.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:49 am
OK, let’s get this comment thread over a hundred, Craig hasn’t had one in a long time. And he hasn’t had a comment section over a hundred in a while either….
Craig: Cool Whip is NAS-ty and not in the good way.
What’s all the hatin’ on blueberry pie? It is really good.
Cranberry *must come from a can and have lines on it so you know how to slice it.
Josh: I don’t like mashed potatoes. Nice use of the dragged to hell reference.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:52 am
1. Yay. One of those things that you’re not overly excited about, but it only comes once a year and you’d miss it if it were gone.
2. The obligatory green bean casserole, with lots of ham and cheese to fatten it up.
3. Wine!
4. Cranberries in any form are nasty.
5. Apple for sure. My mom is a terrible cook/baker, but for some reason she does a mean apple pie!!!
6. Ice cream on all 3.
7. Good bread and salt/pepper.
8. More wine and gabbing with the crowd.
9. hmmmm……have to think about that one. Friends’ Monica with the turkey on her head comes to mind.
10. The health of my friends’ newborn triplets.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:53 am
I’m in John it will distract me.
They have Cool Whip in a can now. Hey, edible oil product, yum. (Not really)
November 25th, 2009 at 10:53 am
John: Funny…I was chatterboxxxing wiff some taterz yesterday and they just lurrrrve you!
Oh, and I don’t actually eat Tanxgiverz dinner. Or anyting @ all actually. I am anorexic. My insecuritiez demand sympathy & attention!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Josh: You go over there and show those bitchy little interns how it’s done.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Paul: You sharing that bottle of wine or hogging it all to yourself? How big is it?
November 25th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Tam: Me too. We are down to 5 in the office and I’m here all day until 5. Yay work ethic! Cool Whip in a can? Ewww, I so don’t get the appeal.
Josh: Of course taterz lurrrve me. What’s not to love?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Yeah Paul, how big is it?
Yay for healthy triplets!
Cool hWhip is amazing!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Just a normal size bottle of wine, no need to repeat Grandma’s holiday night in jail.
I share, but very few in my family drink.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I actually don’t drink wine anymore. But alcohol in pretty much any other form works.
Triplets = terror in my heart (glad they are healthy though)
November 25th, 2009 at 11:06 am
I have to bring cold cuts to the pot luck tomorrow. I should bring bologna, that traditional Thanksgiving meat.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Paul: I’m thinking that Craig wasn’t referring to the bottle of wine.
Wait, who has triplets? Did I miss something?
Craig: “What do you call the remains of ancient buildings?”
November 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am
My Mom makes this weird jello-salad where you mix Cool Whip with lemon jello, carrots, pineapple and marshmallows. *gag* It’s disgusting. Maybe that’s why we don’t spend holidays together anymore.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Tam: No offense to your Mom, but what the hell? The carrots are what threw me. Plus the combination of Cool hWhip and jello makes me want to gag.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Isn’t Cool Whip and Reddi Whip the same thing? Or is Reddi Whip the stuff made with real cream? I’m not well versed in the “whipped cream in a can” world.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am
I’m with ya John. She makes it for my daughter and I just try to avoid making eye contact with it.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Reddi Whip is whipped cream in a can.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Tam: That sounds like ambrosia and that stuff is delicious!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:12 am
John: What’s not to love? Your obviously retarded tongue that doesn’t appreciate one of mah favo foodz of all time [aka masher tatoz]!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Cool hWhip is heaven in a plastic tub.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Craig: I think you’re right. Some wacky Canadian variation on ambrosia. Not my cup of tea.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Josh: If anyone needs me I’ll be crying, dying and then being dragged to hell. You’re so mean!
Craig: Must resist urge to point out what other substances could be taken as heaven in a plastic tub….
This is fun, I feel like Dave S., but you know, without all the muscle.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Craig: Get it in the CAN . The lid is shaped like a little pile of cool whip (or albino dog poop, not sure which).
November 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Oooh! Fabulous. I stole this quiz to answer tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving darling!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I like potatoes in most any form. None of that weird green bean casserole. I don’t think that even exists north of the border. It’s some kind of weird creation that vanishes into the ether if it crosses the American border.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Tam, that thing looks like some evil “marital aid”
November 25th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Well hell, I’m supposed to be in a conference call in 15 min. Do I go to the conference room and sit or do I gracefull bow out and do it from my office (where I can continue to piss away my day posting here). I’m thinking office. Feel like crap anyway, good excuse.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Paul: Arrgghhh. Now you’ve put that image in my head. There is a can of it in my fridge. LOL
November 25th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Oh, and I’d like to throw my support behind mashed potatoes. They are amazing.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Baked potatoes are awesome as are scalloped. I have had mashed potatoes that are a little chunky with garlic, but I don’t like them all whipped within an inch of their life. Reminds me too much of baby food.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:22 am
I agree John. When there is too much milk and they turn kind of soupy they are gaggy. Just a little mashed with lots of gravy. Yum.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:26 am
1. Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on television. Yay or nay?
Always! Although it’s kind of on in the background. Last year we actually saw it in person. Kind of surreal.
2. What is your favorite Thanksgiving side dish? You can’t say turkey!
It’s either sweet potatoes or my partner’s “drunken cranberries.” Each year it goes back and forth between which I think is the triumph.
3. What is your favorite beverage (alcoholic or nonalcoholic) to go with your Thanksgiving Day meal?
White wine – usually a bit sweeter. Although some years the Beaujolais Noveau is really good.
4. Cranberry Sauce. Delicious tradition, or evil jello wannabe?
If it’s frrom a can – evil wannabe.
5. What is your favorite pie?
Blueberry. Which is not of this season. This time of year – pumpkin. Can I also say I actually like a good mincemeat if it’s done right?
6. Match the following pies with the following toppings. Apple, Pumpkin, Blueberry. Reddiwhip, Cool Whip, Ice Cream.
Ice cream. Period.
7. Complete this sentence: The secret to a delicious post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich is:
Mayo. It’s a necessity.
8. What is your post-Thanksgiving meal ritual? Don’t say pooping, you gross bastard!
A trashy movie – we always pick one that’s “so bad it’s good” to watch with our guests. Past winners have included ‘Showgirls’ and ‘Valley of the Dolls.’
9. What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day themed movie or television episode?
The ‘Friends’ episode with Brad Pitt. Classic!
10. What are you most thankful for this year? You can only pick one!
Still employed and living in a great house with a man and a cat I adore.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:26 am
John: you’re getting dragged to hell?! LUCKSTER DUCKSTER! WhEn’Z mAh TuRn?!?!?!
Craiggerz: I’ve never had ambrosia, but the name makez it seem like some sort of bloody bruise you’d get on your brain after getting bludgeoned wiff a crowbar. Ew!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:40 am
OK, so i guess I’m the only one who has squirted rediwhip into my mouth straight from the can. Or at least the only one who will admit it.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Mark: Pretty sure “the only one who will admit it” is the way to go.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Mark: No you aren’t. I’ve done that many a time and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Squirting whipped cream in my mouf alwayz makes me feel like I’m drowning on cloudz! ANXXXIETY!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:48 am
In order to help with the goal of reaching 100 comments, I shall say…
“Some wacky Canadian variation on ambrosia.” I don’t know about the ambrosia, tam, but I do love me some variations on a wacky Canadian!
(Oh, like any of us expected me avoid sexual double entrende all day. Please.)
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:49 am
john: “This is fun, I feel like Dave S., but you know, without all the muscle”
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Love this, love this!
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:50 am
And for the record, potatoes rock. In nearly any form. mashed, boiled, fried, baked, sliced and dropped in a deep fryer, with skins, without skins, it doesn’t matter.
Potatos and some kind of meat, a perfect meal. Who needs anything else?
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Polt: “Potatos and some kind of meat, a perfect meal. Who needs anything else?” Um you do, wait, I didn’t read far enough into the “some kind of meat” description.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:53 am
When I lived in Poland you could get chocolate, banana and strawberry flavoured whipped cream in a can. It made alternative uses (ahem – no comment) more palatable.
I HATE potato skin. Gives me the heebie jeebies.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Mark: Oh, no, I’ve done that as well. Squirted it from the can right into my mouth. Yum, yum. I’ll readily admit it. Just like opening a can of Spaghetti-Os and eating them right outta the can, no even heating them up. (Can’t do that with the meatballs, though, they taste icky unheated).
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Craig: Crumb, Rum and Bum = YUM!!!
Polt: Happy Birthday, here’s to hoping you have a great one, on Black Wed nonetheless, in other words, if it were me, it would be a trainwreck of blackout proportions.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:55 am
john, I’ve filled my quota of sexual innuendos today, so that’s why I went no further with that comment. Or the one directly above either.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Althought believe when I say I thought stuff and REALLY wanted to add it..and it took every ounce of my self control not to do so…..
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Thank you Dr. Para.
No drinking in my plans this evening. In fact, I don’t really HAVE any plans this evening. once I hit 36 or 37, celebrating birthdays really didn’t carry the same amount of satisfaction it used to. So mom and I will probably go out to eat somewhere, and do some shopping and then I’ll sit home in front of the TV and watch the new Dr. Who FDot sent to me.
Polt = party animal, oh yeah.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:58 am
OMGAWDZ…is anyone else stuck @ werk countin’ down the horaz ’til lazzzy time?!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Polt: “Potatoes and some kind of meat”. I’m trying to be good, stop tempting me.
And anything dropped in a deep fryer is good, Yum!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:59 am
1. Never watch the parade. There must be something better on Bravo. Actually I’ll be watching the tennis championships in london on the tennis channel.
2. Stuffing, hands down.
3. White wine
4..Delicious tradition at one point in time, but no longer featured on our table
5. It’s not very seasonal, but Coconut Cream
6. Pass
7. Dark meat and tons of mayo
8. After everyone finally leaves, first I take the dogs on a long walk and then Tony and I choose an Almodovar movie to watch
9. There must be a Walton’s Thanksgiving special I cried over at one point. I did just watch Planes Trains and Automobiles for the first time ever the other day and was surprised at how much I laughed out loud!
10. Rita, the dog I got from the Oakland Animal Shelter after Argos passed away last December. Rita is special and a LURF her!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I love all types of potatoes. Mashed, baked, steamed, scalloped, french fried, etc. And I hate those nasty YAMS which go around calling themselves ’sweet potatoes’ just so they can pretend to be potatoes and therefore everyone will assume they’re yummy when in fact they are NASTY. Dumb yams.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Polt: I’m surprised you didn’t jump all over the opportunity to joke about me drowning in cream begin squirted into my mouf. Slightly disappointed cuz I totez set that up for someone to score laughz wiff @ mah expense.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Josh: I am! But I get off at 12! OH LOOK! It’s 12 on the dot! Bye work!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Josh: I thought SOMEONE would capitalize on that statement! Cream in all varieties is nasty. Except cream cheese on an Eickhoff bagel (after it gets burned in the dumb toaster thing that is always broken). Mmmm.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
E. Copterz: I tink I will start calling peepz I don’t like [aka anyone who has a problem wiff Rhonetta] “dumb yamz.”
IE: “You better believe Rho-Rho is gonna set this city on fiya, you dumb yam!”
November 25th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Sassy josh: I’m trying to be a good boy on Puntabulous and not re-enforce negative steretypes about gay men being all honey sex machines. That being said, however, I’d pay large amounts of cash to see almost anything squirted into your mouth.
Just sayin…
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
And while ‘honey sex machines’ is pretty damn awesome description, what I meant to say was ‘horny sex machines’!
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I like sweet potato french fries but otherwise not so much. But seriously, you could dump pretty much anything in a deep fryer and the taste improves 1000%.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Josh: I’m stuck at work until the doors lock at 5. Likely I will be the only person here after 3. This isn’t a holiday for Tam either, so I believe she is stuck at work and not feeling well on top of it.
I was tempted to comment on drowning in cream, but I was more tempted to ask what doesn’t fill you with anxiety.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Oh, and Sassy josh, I’d pay even larger amounts of money to be the one squirting alomst anything into your mouth. Hey, you brought it up, remember?
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Polt: Tanx! NOW I can act all offended and scream for David to save me…
EW POLT, SICKERSKATEZ! DAVID! WHERE ARE YOU TO KEEP THIS TAINT-NASTINESS AWAY FROM MY BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECTLY VIRGINAL EVERYTHING!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Polt: I forgot, Waters of Mars was good! I really liked it.
FDot: What did you think of the episode?
November 25th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Personally, I like sweet potatoes…but mainly with a nice hamslice and peas. And Mama Polt makes and awesome Sweet Potato casserole filled with sweet potates, pineapples, the little marshmellows, and other awesome goodness all melted together. Yum.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Did we get to 100 yet? I should probably try to get at least something work related done today.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Looks like this post is 91.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I love sweet potatoes of any variety! So warm, yummy and delicious. Our gaybors make awesome homemade sweet potato fries!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
BOOO…Regular french fries are ten timez better than sweet tato friez, but everyone tinkz the latter are better cuz they are less common. Eh!
Y’all aren’t men! You’re just mennequins!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Exactly what is a gaybor? Are they related to Zsa-Zsa and Eva?
November 25th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Anything to make you happy, Sassy josh. And this didn’t cost me large, small or in fact any sum of money to do so. Sweet.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Josh: I get “beautiful” and “perfect”, but Virginal???
November 25th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Kitten pix: http://twitpic.com/qvyx3
(That one is from July or August, when they were just 4 months old, and we’d just gotten them from the pound, via foster parents.)
November 25th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
gaybors! I love that! My friend Corey has used that term, he’s the first place I’ve heard it. Figures Craiggers would use it too. Apparently, all my ’stalkees I have warm fuzzy feelings about that i love from afar’ the term!
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Exactly what is a gaybor? Are they related to Zsa-Zsa and Eva?
I wonder if Craigger’s gaybors slap cops too?
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Craig: Stuffing is called that because it’s stuffed up a dead bird’s ass. If it’s not, then it’s called dressing – at least down South. In my family it was usually cornbread dressing.
Mark: Honey, I have no shame when it comes to whipped cream. I shotgun it from the can and don’t care who sees me.
Tam: My mom’s family has been known to deep fry the turkey, but that didn’t start until well after I was vegetarian. Sweet taters, though, I will eat any which a way – baked, bo’led, fried, mashed, in pie (mmmm, pie), and occasionally even raw. Nom, nom, nom.
Anyone: In addition to making sweet tater pie tonight, I’m also gonna be making one or two of these: http://caroleknits.net/2009/11/23/chocolate-peanut-butter-ganache-pie/
November 25th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Josh: You must be wearing your sassy pants and your sass factor today because you are extra sassy today.
Mark: I snorted a bit at virginal as well.
TwoPi: Not a big fan of the cats, but they are pretty darn cute. All black and lanky.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Polt: I know…doesn’t take much to make me happycopterz. Just do what I say and no one getz hurt.
Mark: CHA! Sex is scurry! I don’t wanna get preggerz like Clarice Precious Jonez! ::stealz chicken::
November 25th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
YAY, we got to 100! Congrats, Mel!
Now, I really must go for a lil bit and try to accomplish some stupid worthless thing, push some meaningless piece of paper, to justify my paycheck.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
“PERFECTLY VIRGINAL EVERYTHING!”
Is it mean that I read this and snorted out loud in my office?
November 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Mel: The description of that pie is hardening my arteries. But, I bet it tastes reeeeaaalllly good.
Polt: I think you are the only one who is going to get Zsa-Zsa and Eva. I’m glad you’re here.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Josh: Why would you be asking David to save you?
TwoPi: Adorable!
Mel: I’ll take one of those pies! Chocolate + Peanut Butter = Yum!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I’ve never had sweet potato pie. I think it’s illegal to make/serve that in Canada. Seriously, jail time is involved.
Those kittens were adorable when we saw them.
Mel: Why are you ruining that chocolate by mixing in peanut butter. Ewwww.
Yes, I’m at work, curled up in my chair listening to a conference call and whining about how much my tummy hurts. We’ll see how long I last this afternoon.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Can I call the guy in the office beside me my gaybor?
November 25th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
[...] saw this over at Puntabulous and shamefully decided to make it a post rather than reply in the comments. But I linked it, so [...]
November 25th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Craig: Chocolate, peanut butter, AND heavy cream. AND oreos and butter. Can I get a amen?
November 25th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Craiggerz: Cuz he’s mah guardian bloggy angel.
Tam: Just calmly announce ova the conference call “I hate this.” Then disconnect, leave the office, come to Nueva Nueva and hug me.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I’ve heard of deep fried turkey and they claim it’s not like deep fried chicken which makes me say “What the hell is the point then?” If the Colonel doesn’t make it I’m not interested.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Mel: Amen…::heave::
November 25th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Josh honey, I would in a minute. I have it on mute so they have no clue I’m basically ignoring them. But my name shows up on the webinar list so it looks like I care. I don’t.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Mel: Amen! Hallelujah!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Tam: To the unschooled it looks and tastes much like punkin pie. Except it’s not. I also forgot to mention pecan pie. Pecans are *the* perfect nut, IMO.
Okay, Polt, I know you wanna go there.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I agree with on pecans, but pecan pie is like main lining sugar. Similar to “sugar pie” which is a French Canadian speciality. Basically pecan pie with no nuts, just fill pastry with maple sugar and feel the rush as you eat it.
I’ve heard SPP is like pumkin. I’ll reserve judgement.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Mel: What about cashewz?! Cover those little shitz in salt and I’m in nut heaven! (c’mon Polt, I’m giving you another chance!)
November 25th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Josh: We are All Preggerz!
And cashews are the Best nuts ever!! Brazil nuts are a close second, I like the woody taste.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Josh: Salty nuts? I thought you were all about the Schweaty Balls?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4156/saturday-night-live-nprs-delicious-dish-schweddy-balls
November 25th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Mark: Life is hard. Life is short. Life is painful. Life is rich. Life is….PREGGERZ.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Oh, I may have to go with Josh on this. I forgot about cashews, but they aren’t something you usually cook with so I’ll say they are the best non-cooking type. Pecans for cooking. Oh, I like almonds too. No walnuts though.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
“PREGGERZ” BTDT, never again thanks to modern technology (and no social life). Not that it wasn’t worth it, but once is plenty I think.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Yay, the call is over, now I don’t have to pretend to care anymore.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I like Cashews and peanuts, but too many bouts of diverticulits and I’m off nuts for good. I do miss them on occasion, but avoiding excruciating abdominal pain wins out every time. I also liked pistachios.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Josh: I’m fond of most any kind of salty nut, but pecans are also sweet. A purée of cashews with a bit of water is an excellent way to cream up a curry sauce if you don’t have coconut milk, though.
Tam: David likes walnuts best. I blame it on his being from South Dakota. I think they’re okay, but def not my first choice when I’m jonesing to eat nuts – salty or otherwise.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Generally the only nuts I like are regular salted peanuts.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Craig: So you’re saying you’re a fan of eating goobers?
November 25th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
1. If it’s on, I’ll watch a few mintues.
2. Angry Black Bitch’s Corn Casserole Yumminess. It’s SO GOOD! If I don’t bring it to dinner, they don’t let me in the house.
3. Iced tea, same a usual. (Boring, right?)
4. I’ve never understood its appeal. Nor do I think I’ve ever tried it.
5. Pecan pie!
6. I think Craig has the correct configuration. Of course, I end up squirting the Reddiwhip in my mouth.
7. Mashed potatoes & gravy. What? Don’t act like you don’t do it too.
8. Napping.
9. The House of Yes. So twisted. “Pancakes, Marty. Pancakes.”
10. Good health…finally!
November 25th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Tam: Walnuts are awful and for some reason everyone alwayz bakes them into cookies and cakes and other baked goods I want to eat. I’m stuffing mah stupid cheekz wiff derrrrriciouz carrot cake and then I bite down on a tasteless piece of waxy hell [aka walnut] and may entire day is RUINED!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Brian: “House of Yes” is T’giving? My memory so sucks ass. Love, love, love that movie, though.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Exactly Josh. Pecans make an excellent walnut substitute. Recipe be damned, I make it the way I like it. Although Brazil nuts are a shade worse than Walnuts.
Mel: South Dakotans like walnuts? Huh.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Can we all agree that almonds suck though? They are like rocks.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Speaking of carrot cake, when I was in Columbus I had the most amazing carrot cake ice-cream (nut free). Yum.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Okay, having made copies of two forms, stapled them, and filed them in the appropriate folders….I am back! Let’s see what I missed.
Twopi: My feelings on cats are well known, and I shall not restate them here for fear of being mercilessly ridiculed.
john: Sassy josh’s sassy pants? Are those the 27 inch waist shorts that are so tight you can see the pimple on his left asscheek?
Sassy josh: I could make you happyskaterz all the time, but you never tell me to do anything to you.
[paging David, oh David, please respond to call for help from josh]
john: what’s not to love about the Gabors? Talentless foreign ladies with thick accents known only for BEING famous, not for doing anything that really mattered. Kinda like the Paris Hilton of the 60’s…but except she’s not foreign. Nor really a lady.
I don’t like pecans. I don’t like Brazil nuts. Not fond of walnuts. But I go nuts over cashews! A little slice of heaven right here on earth. Naturally, if I have to many of them I get a horrible migraine. Figures, right?
Mel and Sassy josh, I said I’ve already filled my sexual innuendo quote for today. Sorry, someone else will have to make the jock about josh’s salty nuts.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Nooooo. Almonds are great, but not raw. Dry roasted peanuts? Gag, how much beer do you need to choke those suckers down?
November 25th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
*SIGH*…and once more, since I type faster than I read, and don’t use any kinda of spellcheck, I MEANT to say “the JOKE about josh’s salty nuts”. Although, frankly, if josh’s salty nuts are IN a jock, that’s a topic I’d LOVE to talk about…I’d be all over that…so to speak.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
“Gag, how much beer do you need to choke those suckers down?”
Tam: reminds me of a joke. “What’s the difference between a straight frat boy and a bisexual frat boy?” “Six beers.”
Hey, I didn’t say it was a good joke.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Craig: I don’t know, I loved Almond Joy candy bars.
Polt: 27″ waist pants. I still say that is just wrong. If it isn’t them, then it is a pair of underwear that is three sizes too small.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Polt: So you’ve given up inuendo and are just going to straight out sexual comments now? Play to your strengths hon.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Sorry Craig, I like almonds too. They taste woody like Brazil nuts (TAM)! Plus they’re full of heart healthy crap and stuff.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Fine, Almond Joy bars are quite delicious!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
John: My underwear fitz me just right! I can’t help it that I just don’t ever eat!
Craiggerz & Cheez: Sorry dear, almonds are heavenly and to echo John, Almond Joy is one of mah favo dulcez of all tiempo.
Polt: I don’t have pimplez on mah rump! Sick!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Josh: You know Polt is going to ask for proof of that.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Tam: I always use my God given abilites for good, and never evil. Although using them for naughty a lil bit isn’t such a bad thing.
Not a fan of almonds either, but they’re better than Brazil nuts or pecans.
Sassy josh: You don’t have pimplez on ur rump…that you KNOW of. Want me to check to make sure? [David, David, there's a 'damsel' in distress in need of help!]
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I think I’ll eat a chocolate pudding. Chocolate always makes you feel better right? If that doesn’t work at 2:30 I’m out of here. It’s not like I’m actually doing anything.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Wow 144, and I have to go to a family thing 4 peeps who won’t be there tomorrow. Dammit! Have fun!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
tam: I prefer vanilla pudding, but I’d even much more prefer to leave here at 2:30. *SIGH*, you lucky Canadian government employees…
Mark: you have fun and a great Thanksgiving!
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
@Mel – I <3 it too! If I remember, the only connection to Thanksgiving is it takes place during Thanksgiving break.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Polt: I think I have 4 months sick time stored up. I should start using it. Maybe I could be sick every second Monday.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Mark: Have fun with the fam and have a great Thanksgiving. It will be deadly quiet around here tomorrow. I’ll be talking to myself all day.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
1) I’ll be sleeping, thank you.
2) MASHED POTATOES. Food of the gods.
3) Martinelli’s sparkling cider.
4) Delicious tradition – homemade, not from the can. But I do love the sound the cranberry glob makes when it comes out of the can.
5) Marie Callender’s cranberry apple streusel pie. Which they aren’t carrying this season!! Boooo! I waited all year for that damn pie… grumble grumble.
6) Who cares. I’m still bitter about number 5.
7) Not into the sandwich thing. I just pick meat (breast only) off the carcass the next day. Cause I’m classy like that.
9) A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!
10) You guys. And my husband, who just nods his head and smiles.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Mark: Have a great Thanksgiving!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Oops, bloggy guardian angel is a little late to the unholy skirmish here.
Um, let’s see..
Polt! Begone before you blemish the unblemishedness of the Joshter, in all his, um, er, virginal purity.
John: Bow before the gods of mashed potatoes and give to them proper obeisance.
Tam: I’ll forgive you the snort of derision, but I’m watching you.
As regards the appearance and skin quality of Josh’s posterior, my lips are sealed. I’m not even going near the topic of salty nuts.
Thank you all for your time. I have to re-ascend and get back to work. Some of us actually have stuff to do today.
Hugs and smooches to all.
{heavenly choir escorts him back to the astral plane}
November 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I just got the message about our Christmas lunch at work. $32 Shit. They don’t go cheap here do they? Sigh. In the effort to be sociable I shall fork out the money. AND a gift, luckily I am going to regift.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
hehehe…David, you make me laugh. And since you’ve left, I won’t even ask anything about your lips and Sassy josh’s posterior OR his salty nuts. [this might be enough to get him to once again desend from the higher planes, on a beam of sunlight, accompanied by harp playing cherubs]
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
And may I just remind everyone that “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly” is perhaps one of THE funniest lines ever uttered. Espeically when done so by Mr. Carlson and Herb Tarlik, all disheveled and covered in turkey feathers/
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
David: Ohhh, kinky but I’d rather watch you. Sigh. Forgive me. I’ll slap my own hand.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
David: Bow before the gods of mashed potatoes? Are you trying to sneak a look at my bum? Just so you know, there is plenty of back yard, but I can’t attest to its quality.
Tam: $32, that is steep. Our department foots the bill for ours.
Polt: Agreed, best line ever.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
We’re government John. Our Christmas bonus is them turning up the heat in our offices for a day. Couldn’t spent tax payers money on the employees. Sigh. It is steep, some fancy dancy restaurant where you get two choices for everything and they are meh choices, but hey, not going sends a bad message so I’ll suck it up. Luckily it’s the only thing I have to spend $ on at work that month.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Here is the WKRP actual LINE but it kind of sucks since it’s recorded off someone’s TV screen. Only one I could find though.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
BWAHAHHAHAAAHAHHAHA!!! Oh GOD Tam, thank you do much! that’s rejuvinated me for the rest of the afternoon better than a gallon of coffee would have. I’ve watched it three times already.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
john, Tam, ya know that episode aired in 1978? 31 freakin years ago?!? howz that for makin ya feel old and cruztycopterz?
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I’m only 23. I wasn’t alive then. Ug! Where’s Enrico to talk about Jennifer Hudson wiff me?!
November 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Polt: Thanks. Really, thanks. I totally feel crustycopterz now.
Josh: Are you going to be one of those people who cries (and maybe dies and mabe gets dragged to hell) when they turn 25?
And Jennifer who now?
November 25th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Sigh. Yeah, great. Thanks for that Polt.
30 will kill him for sure John.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Are we shooting for 200?
Here’s quote by American poet Chalres Bukowski that a friend of mine posted on her blog.
“Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important. I mean it’s not even as important, physically, as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.”
November 25th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Now what if I am killed in a terrible Tanxgiverz Day accident tomorrow?! Wouldn’t you all just feel so bad? Yeah…didn’t tink so.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Tam: “Can” and “is willing to” are two very different things.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
And y’all get your mind out of the gutter with this one (I’ve managed to drag mine out).
“Good things come to those who find ‘em and shove ‘em in their mouth.”
Templeton the Rat in Charlotte’s Web
November 25th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I’ll send roses to the funeral home Josh. Promise.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
John: Well say you were stranded on a dessert island … with no largish mammals, friendly dolphins or soft fruits. You’d have to wouldn’t you?
November 25th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Tam: Better yet, set boxes of caramel cremes and fla.vor.ice…the grievers have to have SUMFING to snack on while they stare @ mah corpse.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Josh: I would feel terrible if that happened. For your family and for your friends. I’m not sure how I would feel in relation to you. If you got dragged to hell, I might say: “LUCKSTER DUCKSTER!” If you got dragged to Heaven, at least you would be with your guardian angel.
Tam: Again, I’d manage, but that wouldn’t necessarily mean I’d like it. If anyone needs me I will be mental flossing friendly dolphins and soft fruit out of my head.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Josh: I’ll make little sandwiches with the crusts cut off (along with caramel cremes) because those little sandwiches are always served at funerals. I’d even shed a tear as I make mystery meat filling for them. Those poor babies left without a Daddy. Sigh.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
John: I read that about the dolphins once. Or maybe it was someone’s overactive imagination. It’s not like I’m going to google it (at work).
November 25th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
“Good things come to those who find ‘em and shove ‘em in their mouth.”
Best part about this quote? Templeton the Rat was voiced by Paul Lynde. teehee, snicker. Bet that’s not the first time he said it!
And for Enrickyricardo and Sassy josh, Paul Lynde was the flamboutantly gay actor that sat in the center square on Hollywood Squares. Here’s an example :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEM5HeRuBs Paul Lynde shows up about 1:05 into it.
HUGS…
November 25th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I always liked him in Bewitched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af12sf1XhgI&feature=related
November 25th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Paul: That was awesome!
Who didn’t have a crush on Elizabeth Montgomery?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I don’t think I had a crush on her, but I did wish she was my mom.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I loved Bewitched. Didn’t we all try to wiggle our noses like that?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Oh forgot to mention the shag carpet in their living room was “groovy”.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I had a rat named Templeton when I was little.
Tam, I still do.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Going back to peanuts, now that I’m awake from my nap, the bestest way ever to eat them is boiled. Or as we say down South, bo’led.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Michelle: So I find myself sitting here with my nose scrunched up. LOL
Mel: Never had bo’led peanuts but I do like them fresh from the shell, roasted I guess. But don’t smush them into peanut butter. Traumatic childhood incident.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
OMG! peanut butter is the best! I could put it on just about anything!
November 25th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
It took me years just to be able to put it on toast for my daughter without gagging. Sigh.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Paul: Agreed! Peanut butter is the bestest!
Michelle M.: I can’t quite wiggle my nose like Samantha, but I can manage the a pretty good bunny sniff.
Mel: Never had bo’led peanuts, but I have heard before that they are really good that way.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Mel – I just read a book in which a character (from the South) put peanuts in her Coca Cola.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Tam: You make them by boiling raw (not roasted) peanuts in the shell in a salt brine for several hours. Prepared this way they’re relatively soft and have a sweet-salty flavor. Which is, of course, the perfect texture/flavor combo for nuts.
They’re best eaten hot.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/BoiledPeanutsHistory.htm
November 25th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Sheesh, I thought you guys would have it over 200 by the time I got home. Have a super Thanksgiving with family and friends everyone and enjoy your tryptophan coma. (Except Mel who’ll be running around with his sheep on a sugar high from the pecan pie.)
November 25th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
“Loves the fizzy taste of a freshly opened tonic. ” I can almost taste that. Pity there’s no gin in the house…. But it *smells* like gin in the house!
We just completed a thanksgiving weekend tradition (a couple days earlier than usual): getting our Christmas tree, and putting it up in the living room. Decorations will wait ’til tomorrow; for now, it is a chance for the cats to get used to it, and perhaps do some climbing.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
1. I don’t remember ever watching the parade. TV parades are boring: floats can’t throw candy through a TV.
2. Sweet potatoes, but mashed potatoes and stuffing are also good.
3. We always have milk, but I have both apple cider and cranberry beer in the fridge for when my parents go home.
4. A couple of years ago, I learned that making cranberry sauce was super simple. Now that I don’t have to deal with a bizarre can shaped blob, I love it.
5. My favorite is rhubarb, but that is barely in season by this point. For Thanksgiving, it would be either apple or cranberry pecan.
6. I really don’t care that much about toppings. However, I do have peppermint ice cream.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Tree!!??!! Ack. I’m lucky if I put one up Dec. 15. I hate putting up (and taking down) the tree. I need servants to do that sort of thing for me. Any volunteers?
November 25th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Ryan: Mmmmm. Rhubarb. Not many people like rhubarb, but I do. Are your parents at your place for Thanksgiving?
November 25th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I’m not going to be able to let this sit with 5 posts short of 200. Nope, can’t do it.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Glee tonight, yay. Please tell me there’s a new episode. Also last episode of Supernatural for me until January. Sigh. Sadness.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
It is a new episode Tam! YAY! I’ve never had rhubarb, am I missing out?
November 25th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
I LOVE ALMOND JOY! Mmmm. Delish.
Are you a man who loves and cherishes and cares for me?!?
November 25th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
I’m chiming in to be comment #200
November 25th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Huh?
November 25th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Yay Jere. Job well done.
John: Rhubarb can be very sour but that’s what makes it uber-delicious.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Ryan – Peppermint stick ice cream is great, but for me it’s more of a Christmas thing.
john/Enrico – I had epic battles with my mom over scalloped potatoes. I couldn’t leave the table unless I had two bites. It’s a wonder I’m still not sitting there.
And in the United States, yams are really sweet potatoes. But it’s not Tuesday, so that’s enough of that.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
I’ve just realized something! I hate Thanksgiving!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Tam: My grandma had a big rhubarb patch when I was growing up, so I learned to love it even raw.
My parents flew in on Monday, which explains why I haven’t been around here that much since then.
Michelle M.: I think I bought it in order to bring the good part of Christmas here earlier.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Sitting for a brief break from the kitchen… with an effin dog show on tv, of all things. (Sorry Polt. K9s and I do not get along.)
Hope you all are having a fantastic Thanksgiving, or at least a wonderful Thursday.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
1. Sometimes I watch the parade in the morning but this year I’m watching the Dog Show and all the football games (gasp!)
2. I agree, Mom’s stuffing without question.
3. water ( I know boring!)
4. Evil.
5. Specifically your Dad’s apple pies. It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without his pies and Mom’s stuffing.
6. I usually stick with the whip cream on apple.
7. None.
8. Tonight I’m looking forward to relaxing with Rocket and watching Star Trek on Blu Ray!
9. Planes Trains and Automoblies and Pieces of April.
10. My wonderful family of course!
November 26th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
TwoPi: hey, others on here (Sassy josh) are felineophiles and I still love them, so you not liking dogs, while I don’t understand it all, won’t hamper my affection for you. Plus, you’ve got Godzilla, that may trump even dogs.
HUGS…
November 27th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
1. I didn’t see it this year, because I was sick. In past years we have had it on in the background, and I think that is where it is best.
2. I have to say stuffing, because it is something I rarely eat except at big holidays.
3. Wine, white probably. I missed that this year as well, since I was sick.
4. Delicious. Except I forgot to eat it this year.
5. Recently I have become a fan of cherry pie, lemon and blueberry as also good. My family always used to have apple pies, and we still do, but I think I got a little bored of them, so I like the variation of different kinds now.
6. I am not a topping (or bottoming, for the dirty minded monkeys out there) expert. I don’t even know the difference between Cool Whip and Reddiwhip, so I shall skip this question.
7. Meat selection is very important, but I also like crisp lettuce and yummy mayo on hearty bread.
8. This year it was watching Cool Tools on the DIY channel. I love tools and thinking about what I can do with them.
9. I can’t think of one, but I do recall finding PT&A absolutely hilarious when I first saw it.
10. Friends, both new and old.
November 29th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
SSC: I bought some Reddiwhip at the grocery this weekend. I hadn’t noticed it as a brandname before… but it was the only aerosol whipped cream available at the local market, when I was shopping for something to put atop pumpkin pie. It was okay, even if pumpkin isn’t my fave.
Chris D: Hope you are feeling better. Nothing adds to the unpleasantness of feeling yuck like knowing you’re missing holidays and time with friends and loved ones, instead of high stress times at school or work.