The Official (Unofficial) Happy Thanksgiving Thread 2005

Akugarou · Post by **Akugarou** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:02 am

Okay, yeah... Maybe a bit early, but I will be traveling over the long holiday weekend. I will be temporarily offline until Sunday.

And so, I just wanted to extent howls for a safe and happy Thanksgiving! Pass the gravy!

The drumstick is mine!!

Baphnedia · Post by **Baphnedia** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:12 am

Awesome! What a good idea (instead of 100 different posts individually, like Birthdays tend to do sometimes...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Timber-WoIf · Post by **Timber-WoIf** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:42 am

a bueno turkey day to all...

white · Post by **white** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:31 am

Yay! Society-supported devouring of inordinantley large amounts of meat!

Not to mention the pies. The pies are good too.

Hamster · Post by **Hamster** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:51 am

Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving!

Lets all give thanks to our forefathers stealing land from people who was treating this land with respect instead of using it for there own game. How dare they just love the land instead of destorying it? And thank you for our foreign diseases to almost wiped them out! We wouldn't have complelty stolen this land without it! Lets all give thanks that this country was founded on death, rape, diseases, slavery, and hate. I'm so proud of america!

Pfft!

We don't celibrate Thanks-taking the way others do. All we do is just eat the turkey and go to bed. Woohoo!

Sorry for not being an "Americane" .

Set · Post by **Set** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:27 pm

Hamster wrote:Lets all give thanks to our forefathers stealing land from people who was treating this land with respect instead of using it for there own game. How dare they just love the land instead of destorying it? And thank you for our foreign diseases to almost wiped them out! We wouldn't have complelty stolen this land without it! Lets all give thanks that this country was founded on death, rape, diseases, slavery, and hate. I'm so proud of america! Pfft!

Yeah. Thanks, all you English settlers. Oh and let's not forget the Spaniards, who tormented my ancestors too. I might've been born full blooded Apache or Aztec/Mayan instead of a mix if it weren't for you.

Pass me the damn turkey.

Koshaw · Post by **Koshaw** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:40 pm

Hehhehe Happy Turkey day!

*chomp* I do love Turkey and all the fixings ^_^ (and left overs)

Hope you all have a safe, sane (relatively) and fun Turkey Day

^^

Now pass the plates and get out of my way

white · Post by **white** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:41 pm

Hamster wrote:Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving!

Lets all give thanks to our forefathers stealing land from people who was treating this land with respect instead of using it for there own game. How dare they just love the land instead of destorying it? And thank you for our foreign diseases to almost wiped them out! We wouldn't have complelty stolen this land without it! Lets all give thanks that this country was founded on death, rape, diseases, slavery, and hate. I'm so proud of america! Pfft!

We don't celibrate Thanks-taking the way others do. All we do is just eat the turkey and go to bed. Woohoo!

Sorry for not being an "Americane" .

*cheers*
Glad to see that all is not lost.

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:19 pm

Ralith Lupus wrote:Yay! Society-supported devouring of in ordinantley large amounts of meat!

Yep, I can get behind a holiday where the main event is devouring meat.

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:48 pm

I'm still going to celebrate the idea behind Thanksgiving (even if I'm an ethical vegitarian, making my celebration at least as screwy as the rest of yours.)

Yes, there was a lot of betrayal among cultures afterwards, but for one day, peoples got together and gave thanks to their respective deities, and acknowledged that, all things considered, life was worth living, and that there is bounty in the universe and in the world.

I have plenty of blessings to count--a loving wife, assorted family, and plenty of prosperity. Even my gripes about life right now are enviable. I often feel that I have too much work hours. However, I am well aware that in this economy, having too much work is hardly something over which to cry. And, I am grateful for my own particular talents and abilities, that have made this life for me possible.

So, any takers?

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:08 pm

No Thanksgiving for me.

(I hate convenience stores.)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone else.

Set · Post by **Set** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:48 pm

I'm gonna be gnawing on that turkey for a month... Geez, that's a big bird. I'm just about as stuffed as it is right now.

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:18 pm

I love this holiday! I just ate 'till it hurts!!

Hooray for conquering other cultures!

But really, those beanettes were awesome! Turkey wasn't bad either.

Hamster · Post by **Hamster** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:13 pm

Excelsia wrote:I love this holiday! I just ate 'till it hurts!!

Hooray for conquering other cultures!

But really, those beanettes were awesome! Turkey wasn't bad either.

Woah, woah! You people are eatting now?! Its like only 5:00!

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:17 pm

Excelsia wrote:I love this holiday! I just ate 'till it hurts!!

Hooray for conquering other cultures!

But really, those beanettes were awesome! Turkey wasn't bad either.

The bad thing about "eating till it hurts" is that it raises the blood pressure. It also stretches out the stomach. One small meal won't be enough to satisfy you if your stomach gets larger.

Vilkacis · Post by **Vilkacis** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:48 pm

Hamster wrote:Woah, woah! You people are eatting now?! Its like only 5:00!

We started eating at 1:00...

-- Vilkacis

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:47 pm

Hamster wrote:
Excelsia wrote:I love this holiday! I just ate 'till it hurts!!

Hooray for conquering other cultures!

But really, those beanettes were awesome! Turkey wasn't bad either.

Woah, woah! You people are eatting now?! Its like only 5:00!

Do you mean 5 am or pm? Either way, that would be weird, because Thanksgiving has always been a lunch thing for my family.

In my timezone, we began eating at about 12:30 p.m.

(I'm in Louisiana. I never bothered figuring out the whole 'resetting of the timezone' thing for the board, because it makes no sense to me. I live in the central timezone, and none of them say 'central'.

If I cared enough, I could go through the trouble of figuring out what that would be in relation to the timezone that the board uses...but nah. Most likely, however, someone will read this and then tell me what it is, which is kinda what I'm hoping for.

)

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 12:54 am

Hey...I'm descended from the folks on the other side of the table from the Buckled-Hat-Can't-Smile Brigade...btw, you haven't stolen our land, we're still here. We're just letting y'all use it

Anyway...I gotta pick my friends more carefully. Since I can't travel and Mom's down in California, I decided to have an "orphans" Thanksgiving. AND NOBODY CAME!!!! I wound up eating Thanksgiving dinner with just the cat for company!

(not at the cat, though)

I'm a "foodie" and I had a nice, semi-elaborate five-course dinner. Clam chowder and homemade Italian milk bread with rose petal jelly, cherry honey, three different types of preserves and olive oil/black cherry balsamic vinegar for condiments; baked apples with burgundy jelly, honey, craisins, fresh nutmeg and cinnamon; palate cleanser; organic turkey legs marinated in cranberry-pomegranate juice and merlot with cheddar potatoes for the main course; and cinnamon cheesecake with chai nog for dessert. I ate it slow-food style, vis-a-vis take a half hour to savour every course. You're okay and don't get uncomfortably stuffed and sleepy if you take it easy instead of loading up and packing it down. Usually my dinner consists of just the soup course, but I'm not stuffed, just comfortably full.

In fact, I think I'll sneak back out to the kitchen and get another slice of cheesecake

Hamster · Post by **Hamster** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:29 am

Excelsia wrote:
Hamster wrote:
Excelsia wrote:I love this holiday! I just ate 'till it hurts!!

Hooray for conquering other cultures!

But really, those beanettes were awesome! Turkey wasn't bad either.

Woah, woah! You people are eatting now?! Its like only 5:00!
Do you mean 5 am or pm? Either way, that would be weird, because Thanksgiving has always been a lunch thing for my family.

In my timezone, we began eating at about 12:30 p.m.

You people are crazy! We eat the turkey around 8 to 9 pm! Well, at least my old hometown do and anyone who eats it earlier is seen to be very odd. Sorry but I always thought it to be strange for people to eat their meal at lunch or near it. Damn, in our house, 4:00pm is lunch time! I know a family here that eat Thanksgiving for breakfast! They stay up all night cooking it!

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:09 am

We always started at 3PM. I waited a little today and started at 4. Stopped at 5:30, laid back to digest a little, then tackled dessert

Slightly off-topic: in many places of the world, the big meal of the day is taken at or around noon. This makes sense because your metabolism is at full thrash then and best able to burn the nutrients and calories rather than storing them. Our culture says, "Big meal at the end of the day" after we've pulled a full day, tired, depleted, and then a few hours later we're in bed and at the lowest end of the metabolic cycle. I'll bet if this society had dinner at noon we'd see a tapering off of obesity.

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:15 am

Excelsia wrote:Do you mean 5 am or pm? Either way, that would be weird, because Thanksgiving has always been a lunch thing for my family.

In my timezone, we began eating at about 12:30 p.m.

It's always been a dinner thing here, because it takes all day to make.

(I'm in Louisiana. I never bothered figuring out the whole 'resetting of the timezone' thing for the board, because it makes no sense to me. I live in the central timezone, and none of them say 'central'. If I cared enough, I could go through the trouble of figuring out what that would be in relation to the timezone that the board uses...but nah. Most likely, however, someone will read this and then tell me what it is, which is kinda what I'm hoping for. )

GMT -0600. Or GMT -0500 during daylight savings time.

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:37 am

Lupin wrote:
(I'm in Louisiana. I never bothered figuring out the whole 'resetting of the timezone' thing for the board, because it makes no sense to me. I live in the central timezone, and none of them say 'central'. If I cared enough, I could go through the trouble of figuring out what that would be in relation to the timezone that the board uses...but nah. Most likely, however, someone will read this and then tell me what it is, which is kinda what I'm hoping for. )
GMT -0600. Or GMT -0500 during daylight savings time.

Thanks!

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:47 am

Figarou wrote:No Thanksgiving for me.

(I hate convenience stores.)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone else.

How come you work on all the good holidays?

outwarddoodles · Post by **outwarddoodles** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:13 pm

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:06 pm

Fenrir wrote:
Figarou wrote:No Thanksgiving for me.

(I hate convenience stores.)

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone else.
How come you work on all the good holidays?

I have a rotating schedule. I might be off on the holidays next year. Or the year after.