bloke wrote:For quite a few decades now, the term "turkey" has been used as a slang word meaning a fool or a thing that does not function as it should. With (often-enough atheist-leaning) media personages using their term "Turkey Day", it subtly connotes that those who give thanks to God are foolish and dysfunctional.
Are you sure you aren't reading something into the phrase that really isn't there?
bloke wrote:
For quite a few decades now, the term "turkey" has been used as a slang word meaning a fool or a thing that does not function as it should. With (often-enough atheist-leaning) media personages using their term "Turkey Day", it subtly connotes that those who give thanks to God are foolish and dysfunctional.
It's worse than that! The truth is, and you know it's true, the turkey is the big star of this holiday. And, as you note, the turkey has a little image problem. As we call it "turkey day", we underminers of the American way remind people that it's a celebration of an inferior, despised thing, and, ever so subtly, that the people who celebrate it must be in their own way, turkeys. But if it makes you feel any better, we hate ourselves too!
Along with Politics, I think we should also ban Sex and Religion.
thanks, Bruce
And while you're at it....ban drugs, rock-n-roll, free-thought, lively debate, anything bloke has to say..... along with any discussion other than "What mouthpiece are you using?" "What do you think of this horn?" or plethora of mundane questions. (tongue firmly placed in cheek)
Bruce, I am NOT attacking you. You're probably a good person. I am simply arguing that we are becoming a world of restrictions. I think all of these topics and discussions make up who we are.
Have a Happy Thanksgi...Thanksgiv....uhhh.....Thanksgivi.....one more time..... Happy Thanksgiving.
bort wrote:I'm fine with Turkey day as long as we can call Black Friday "Leftover Turkey Day."
How stupid is it that the best name we have for that day is "Day After Thanksgiving"?
How about a different hue? LightGoldenRodYellow Friday?
Reminds me of a scene from an episode of The Simpsons:
Lisa: I'd like 25 copies on Goldenrod.
Clerk: Right.
Lisa: 25 on Canary.
Clerk: Mmhmm.
Lisa: 25 on Saffron.
Clerk: All right.
Lisa: And 25 on Paella.
Clerk: Ok, 100 yellow.
Happy Thanksgiving To All ! On a personal note, we will never celebrate " turkey day" around our house . I'll cook and eat the darn thing but that's about that . Franklin almost made one of Gods dumbest creatures our National Bird . Had he, This might be Eagle Day we'd be celebrating , but I digress , two Thanksgivings back , while out on an early morning bike ride, I spotted a gaggle ( is that correct ? ) of turkey ahead in the road , crossing to my right , hopping a stone wall into the woods. The one straggler to my left ,who I hadn't noticed , took flight , apparently in an effort to catch up with his idiot friends , and struck me mid thigh . Knocking me off of my bike and causing me to separate my shoulder .
I took great delight in stuffing the turkey that year , albeit with one hand !!
I think the usage of Turkey day may be localized...it remains Thanksgiving around here , but , what really annoys me is that once Halloween is over, its Christmas season as retailers and marketers ramp up the Christmas shopping season...oh vey !!!
Is your el-cheapo recipe on par with buying cheap cuts of beef and letting them slow cook in a crock pot or BBQ style? I know that there have been many wonderful recipes over the years that take inexpensive ingredients and produce an amazing meal. I can't help but think that el-cheapo ham will taste like el-cheapo ham. I won't knock it until I try it.
I retract my previous ! No sooner had I hit the submit button when I recieved an email from an old friend wishing me and my family a " happy turkey day ", I told him him to __________ it up his _______.
jamsav wrote:I retract my previous ! No sooner had I hit the submit button when I recieved an email from an old friend wishing me and my family a " happy turkey day ", I told him him to __________ it up his _______.
Would that be turkey stuffing???
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So i am sitting here at the computer and i look out my window , (which is ground level on a walk out basement) and a gaggle of about 6 turkeys come strutting up on our little porch and one brave Tom stares right in my window at me!!!
by the time I ran to ge tthe camera they were gone.
happy Thaknsgiving everyone!!!!
ken k
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1919 Pan American BBb Helicon
1924 Buescher BBb tuba (Dr. Suessaphone)
2009 Mazda Miata
1996 Honda Pacific Coast PC800
BOY I wish you all a great day of thankful ness!! and get no replies.. But let a rant start and 5 pages haha..Whatever you believe in.. I wish you would give thanks..............BB Unless of course it has been a really crappy day!! your excused<s>
) "bone-in" "water added" store-brand hams (that are shrink-wrapped in plastic)...
