Happy Friday! What are your favorite and least favorite parts of Thanksgiving? Do you have any good drunk relative stories??
Question of the Day, Nov 18
Happy Friday! What are your favorite and least favorite parts of Thanksgiving? Do you have any good drunk relative stories??
Favorite part – Feels like family.
No drunk relative stories.
Wonderful American tradition; we have extra to be thankful to God about since 8Nov.
In the past I liked the get together for Thanksgiving dinner, cooking for it all all that stuff.
Now that I’m old and the kids gone I just find it a tedious activity and no longer celebrate it beyond going out to a restaurant by myself to enjoy the mean and remember the past ones when it was still fun.
Getting old is not fun, not at all.
Favorite part: no presents. Least favorite part: hearing about my sister in law going Black Friday shopping at midnight (or now 9 pm on Thanksgiving Day). Christmas shopping shouldn’t be done before December 23.
Iska, in the homecoming special, precursor to the Waltons, daddy comes home on Christmas eve with the turkey.
Old movies depict Christmas eve as the proper time to string popcorn on the tree.
The song that people mindlessly sing, Twelve Days of Christmas refers to the fact that Christmas day was the start of a 12 day celebration culminating “On January 6, most of the Hispanic world celebrates El Dia De Reyes, the Epiphany, remembering the day when the Three Wise Men following the star to Bethlehem, arrived bearing their treasured gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh for the Baby Jesus.Dec 27, 2015” – wikipedia
No doubt you offered that historical tidbit on one of your radio shows.
Turkey, dressing, cranberry and gravy sandwiches for the rest of the weekend.
Playing the Matrix on an endless loop.
Like – the food and family
Dislike – the drive to get there and back. Damn.
Look forward to this every Thanksgiving morning.
Watching Hans Gruber fall off the Tinada Building…….
I am the drunk relative story…….
Afro-American Friday now begins at 6pm on Thanksgiving day. If your nephews and nieces are going to skip dinner in favor of Best Buy there’s no point in driving several hours to eat dry turkey with the natives.
Maybe they’ll understand if I say, sorry, we are camping out in line at Best Buy.
Thanksgiving is but a relic of the old religious America when people who abandoned their mother country (traitors) and settled in another country and took it over (invaders) while worshiping a deity mostly unknown nowadays. Maybe today they can give thanks to their iPhone and Jeff Bezos.
Welllll,
I enjoy all the yummy food, especially if everyone coordinates
and brings something. Also that shitey but yummy cool-whip.
Some people say a prayer to God with a thank you for the food
and family and friends together. If possible, help the main cook
clean up!!
I want nothing to do with black Friday shopping. The brutal
videos are not for me. This year I will (mindfully) ignore them.
My dear Mother wasn’t much of a drinker, but one New Years eve she consumed at least 2 mixed drinks and on her way to the bathroom promptly fell on the big ‘ol furnace grate in the middle of the house. It was cold as a witch’s t*t and that sucker was hot….poor Mom had a burn in the shape of the furnace grid all the way to the middle of ’62. Dick Clark was still a kid.