Turkey Time

gary_in_neenah

gary_in_neenah

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Here's hoping everyone has a chance to reconnect with family and enjoy a fine meal over the holiday. Sounds like I'll have a house full of "turkeys" uh, I mean relatives. If you're traveling, be safe on the roads, gonna be a lot of traffic over the river and through the woods. And if you're in the woods, well you know what to do. Just be careful. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Starting in the 1940s, farmers would gift the president with some plump birds for roast turkey over the holidays, which the first family would invariably eat. While President John F. Kennedy was the first American president to spare a turkey’s life the annual White House tradition of “pardoning” a turkey officially started with George H.W. Bush in 1989.

In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge received a somewhat odd Thanksgiving gift in the form of a live raccoon. Meant to be eaten (the Mississippi man who sent it called raccoon meat “toothsome”), the Coolidge family adopted the pet and named it Rebecca. Rebecca was only the latest addition to their already substantial White House menagerie that included a black bear, a wallaby, and a pygmy hippo named Billy.

The average number of calories consumed on Thanksgiving is 4,500. You're gonna need some elastic stretch pants?

More than 54 million Americans are expected to travel during the Thanksgiving holiday this year. That’s up 4.8% from last year. Are we there yet?
 
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bill_l

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A little early...happy thanksgiving to all

When I was a young turkey, new to the coop,
My big brother Tom took me out on the stoop.
Then he sat me down, and he spoke real slow,
And told me something that I had to know.
His look and his tone I will always remember,
When he told me the horrors of...Black November.

"Come about August, now listen to me,
Each day you'll get six meals 'stead of just three.
"And soon you'll be thick, where once you were thin,
And you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin.
And then one morning when you're warm in your bed,
In bursts the farmer's wife to hack off your head.
Then she'll pluck all your feathers so you're bald 'n' pink
And scoop out your innards, leavin' you in the sink.
And then comes the worst part, " he said, not bluffing,
"She'll spread your cheeks and pack you with stuffing."

The rest of his words were too grim to repeat
I sat on the stoop like a winged piece of meat,
And decided on the spot that to avoid being cooked
I'd have to lie low and remain overlooked.

I began a new diet of nuts and granola,
High-roughage salads, juice and diet cola.
And as they ate pastries, chocolates and crepes,
I stayed in my room doing Jane Fonda tapes.
I maintained my weight of two pounds and a half
And tried to not notice when the bigger birds laughed.
But 'twas I who was laughing, under my breath
As they chomped and they chewed, ever closer to death.
And sure enough, when Black November rolled 'round,
I was the last turkey left in the entire compound.
So now i'm a pet in the farmer's wife's lap,
I haven't a worry, so I eat lots and nap.
She held me today, while sewing and humming,
And smiled at me and said, "Christmas is coming!"
 
mezz

mezz

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I've never heard this before, that is funny! All else aside, Happy Thanksgiving everyone. -Mezz
 
skiroule

skiroule

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Happy Thanksgiving!! Pretty low-key day up here in the tundra, just the two of us and the canines this year. Spending most of the day tinkering out in the shop (no surprise). Took a couple sleds for warm-up laps around the yard, just in case. Sounds like a storm could be moving in.
 
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