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!
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.
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.
Mark: Have a great Thanksgiving!
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}
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.
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…
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…
David: Ohhh, kinky but I’d rather watch you. Sigh. Forgive me. I’ll slap my own hand.
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.
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.
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.
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…
john, Tam, ya know that episode aired in 1978? 31 freakin years ago?!? howz that for makin ya feel old and cruztycopterz?
HUGS…
I’m only 23. I wasn’t alive then. Ug! Where’s Enrico to talk about Jennifer Hudson wiff me?!
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?
Sigh. Yeah, great. Thanks for that Polt.
30 will kill him for sure John.
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.”
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.
Tam: “Can” and “is willing to” are two very different things.
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
I’ll send roses to the funeral home Josh. Promise.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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).
“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…
I always liked him in Bewitched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af12sf1XhgI&feature=related
Paul: That was awesome!
Who didn’t have a crush on Elizabeth Montgomery?
I don’t think I had a crush on her, but I did wish she was my mom.
I loved Bewitched. Didn’t we all try to wiggle our noses like that?
Oh forgot to mention the shag carpet in their living room was “groovy”.
I had a rat named Templeton when I was little.
Tam, I still do.
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.
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.
OMG! peanut butter is the best! I could put it on just about anything!
It took me years just to be able to put it on toast for my daughter without gagging. Sigh.
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.
Mel – I just read a book in which a character (from the South) put peanuts in her Coca Cola.
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
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.)
“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.
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.
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?
Ryan: Mmmmm. Rhubarb. Not many people like rhubarb, but I do. Are your parents at your place for Thanksgiving?
I’m not going to be able to let this sit with 5 posts short of 200. Nope, can’t do it.
Glee tonight, yay. Please tell me there’s a new episode. Also last episode of Supernatural for me until January. Sigh. Sadness.
It is a new episode Tam! YAY! I’ve never had rhubarb, am I missing out?
I LOVE ALMOND JOY! Mmmm. Delish.
Are you a man who loves and cherishes and cares for me?!?
I’m chiming in to be comment #200