Thanksgiving

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Canuckian Thanksgiving this weekend. I remember to give thanks for my family and friends. For jobs that are (fairly) stable and pay well, for freedom and for those who are willing to die to ensure that freedom remains.

And for so many other blessings, I lose track when I'm counting them. (much more conducive to restful sleep than sheep ;-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), October 09, 2001

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(((((Tricia))))) Couldn't find a picture that said Happy Canuckian Thanksgiving. LOL! Do you have turkey and the trimmings like we do?

Counting blessings is not only conducive to sleep, it makes for a happier person. :-)

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), October 09, 2001.


Happy Thanksgiving Tricia! Don't eat too much :-)

Uh, Gayla, what exactly are trimmings? We Michaels always have turkey at Thanksgiving but I don't recall Marie ever making anything called trimings. So I just asked her why we never had trimmings and she gave me one of her looks. Sheesh! You'd think I really asked her something stupid!

I looked in the supermarket but couldn't find anything called trimings either. Sometimes when I go for a haircut I ask for a trim. Is that what you mean? What do you do with the trims then? If I just got a regular haircut there wouldn't be any trimmings right? Maybe that's it - maybe everyone goes to get a haircut for the Holiday and asks for a trim and then they can take the trimmings home. But then what does that have to do with the turkey?

-- (thesonofdust@no.trimmings), October 09, 2001.


Don't be silly. You know very well that the trimmings are the parts of the turkey that get cut off, or get dropped on the floor, and then are used to make stuff like gravy and glue.

Oh, happy Thanksgiving, Tricia. You are so right.

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), October 09, 2001.


Silly? Me? You gotta be kidding, right?

Thanks for the explanation. I always wondered what happened to my glue... now I know. Sheesh. Well, as long as nobody takes my duct tape. . .

-- (thesonofdust@never.silly), October 09, 2001.


Tricia's thread reminded me of one from our hysterical heritage (FRLian Thanksgiving). the url is:

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001qlz

-- (thesonofdust@old.times), October 09, 2001.



LOL

YES! Everyone brings home their hair and puts it on the turkey. Then the turkey resembles Elvis! Nostalgic Hawaiian songs break out, family members link arms and begin to sway back and forth. Very touching. Doesn't everyone do this?

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), October 09, 2001.


"Nostalgic Hawaiian songs break out..."

We just play the chicken dance ;-)

-- (thesonofdust@hairy.turkey), October 09, 2001.


Wow! You mean DiETeR comes to your house for Thanksgiving?

(Can you believe those old threads STILL play that music he put on there?) :-)

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), October 09, 2001.


Elvised didn't do too many Hawaiiwiiwaiiaaianianan did I mispell that incorrectly?) songs I don't think.

My memory might be trimmed a bit then.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 09, 2001.


LOL at you all!

You're certainly among the blessings I got to count :-) Even you lurkers (would you like me to name names? :-)

Hair trimmings and turkey trimmings and glue and duct tape! Only in the FRL, I say :-D

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Fifty geese flew by

Encouraging with honking

"Keep flying high y'all eh?"

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Soon cold winds whistle

White snow bright beneath dim sun

Now, lovely hues glow.

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-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), October 10, 2001.



Happy Thanksgiving, sweetie.

-- helen (veggie@feast.for.not.from.the.birds), October 10, 2001.

Robert, as usual, your spelling is... um... beyond compare! :-)

Thankfulness abounds,
For those who sacrifice lives,
So others can live.

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), October 10, 2001.

5...0 geese go by high,

(How many sylable makes that?)

Oh No! (Look up.) DUCK!

-- Robert Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 11, 2001.


Happy Thanksgiving Canadianianians :-)

-- kritter (k@a.n), October 11, 2001.

Thanks, all, for your thanksgiving wishes.

Gesundheit, Robert! :-D

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), October 13, 2001.



Can kritter?

Kritter can!

Can't kritter can?

Could kritter can if kritter can't can?

Can kritter can can?

Could kritter can can if kritter can't can, can she?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 13, 2001.


I can can, but I can't can can. :-)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), October 14, 2001.

Let's CAN CAN!!

-- helen, party animal (can@can.can), October 14, 2001.

I can't can can ... it's too cold out.

Getting down to 39 (real) degrees tonight ...... What does that come in centicilious (frigid frozen french) degrees?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), October 16, 2001.


Robert, real, huh? :-P Only in the US of A

In common usage degrees ;-) it's higher than we'll have tonight, I'd bet. Although we've had a very unusually long and warm fall... still no hard frost, the grass is still green, and a few trees are, flowers are still blooming. However, back to 39F (isn't that F for fake? ;-), 32F=0C and 40C degrees = 72F degrees, so 7F degrees is the equivalent of 35/9C degrees. So 0+~4 degrees C = 39 degrees F. That makes it just under 4C, assuming that you actually get to exactly 39F. And if this doesn't rival your explanations for clarity, I assure you it's not for lack of trying :-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), October 17, 2001.


Happy Thanksgiving FRLians! I hope youz guyz all enjoy it to the max. I know our Sweet Princess of Daylight already had Thanksgiving, but what about you Carol? Do you have a holiday like ours down there?

-- (sonofdust@happy.thanksgiving), November 26, 2003.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

-- helen (the@birds.argue.for.tofu), November 26, 2003.

((((((((((FRLians)))))))))))



-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), November 26, 2003.


Thanks for digging this out, Rob! Good for giggles :-D

Happy Thanksgiving to all my 'Mercan friends - may you have too many blessings to count.

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.ent), November 27, 2003.


Happy Thanksgiving to all.

What a great thread Rob. I particularly enjoyed Tricia's explanation of degrees C & F.

No we don't celebrate a Thanksgiving Day over here.

What a cute card Gayla. I still don't know how to post an image, but I'm working on a page where I can put a photo and just post the address. I still owe Lon a photo of an old cottage from last Christmas.

If you want to have a peek there is a pic of a bird just now. Not a turkey or even a stealth goose, but a biggish bird all the same.

http://www.rbm.com.au/oz/ - I hope it works, I've only been able to test it on my computer so far.

-- Carol (c@oz.com), November 27, 2003.


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